The Great Escape
Queensbury, New York
May 26, 2014
Page Two
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Throughout The Great Escape are several miniature buildings from the
Storytown U.S.A. days that thankfully people are left to enjoy.
With school still in session due to the rough winter Bond was not wanting
to head back to school. Fortunately we got all of his final projects
and work done before leaving on our trip but he still had to go back for
one last day before summer was to finally commence.
In upstate New York trees outnumber people and The Great Escape is tucked
in under many trees giving it a cool relaxed feel even on a hot summer day.
Our first stop in our quest to get Bond on all of the coasters at The Great
Escape was the parks first "big" coaster the Steamin' Demon.
Back in the 1980's the attitude that a park wasn't a "real" park unless
it had some sort of looping coaster to flip customers posteriors above their
craniums at least once while strapped into the ride..
The Steamin' Demon began back in 1978 as the Ragin Cajun at the Ponchartrain
Beach Amusement Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. Unfortunately for
residents of the "Big Easy" Ponchartrain beach closed in 1983 and this coaster
was sold and moved up north. At that point Storytown U.S.A. was transitioning
from a park geared to kids into a theme park for the whole family and so
the Storytown name was retired and The Great Escape came to be.
