Theme Park Quotes

“What each of the early Coney Island parks offered was conceptual travel. A visitor from Manhattan could travel just a short distance to experience pleasures and sights that had normally been possible only on the Grand Tour. As”
― Scott A. Lukas, Theme Park

“Like the careful attention to the field of vision and landscape in pleasure gardens the tower uses vision as an apparatus to generate amusement, but it does so with a twist. By merging height and field of vision the Iron Tower allows the amusement patron to see everything that is happening below. Just”
― Scott A. Lukas, Theme Park

“Unlike cinema and theatre, in which audience members passively watch the action on the screen or stage, and unlike the narratives of television and books, which are static, the theme park uses the immersion of the individual inside an unfolding and evolving drama as the basis of its unique form.”
― Scott A. Lukas, Theme Park

“Walt Disney often spoke of architecture and technology as functioning in the form of a ‘weenie’ – as something that would beckon the customer to go inside a space or cause the customer to go in a particular direction in a theme park. The weenie acts as a ‘reward. If you have a corridor, at the end there has to be something to justify you going that distance.”
― Scott A. Lukas, Theme Park

“In a very conceptual moment, John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once said that ‘the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This”
― Scott A. Lukas, Theme Park

“one of the most notable architectural aspects of the world’s fair was the attention to symbolism. The way in which each nation presented itself at the fair was through the realm of the symbolic, not the actual. The architecture of the exposition was ‘used to connote symbolic meanings, minimizing its primary utilitarian functions’.”
― Scott A. Lukas, Theme Park