The Blue Streak is a wooden roller coaster built in 1937 at Conneaut Lake Park in Conneaut Lake, PA. It's a great classic out-and-back coaster that has a 30 second long tunnel you enter right out of the station on your way to the lift hill, just like the Giant Dippers at both Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (one of my favorites, and in many movies), and Belmont Park in San Diego (which was set to be demolished in the 80's, but is now, thanks to a group of citizens, a National Historic Landmark!) .
Blue Streak hasn't operated since 2006, and needs refurbishing to be able to do so again, but the funds aren't available to do so. The Conneaut Lake trustees are trying to raise $125,000 for this work. ACE (American Coaster Enthusiasts) has given $10,000 (here's a 6/25/10 article on that). Supposedly the park owes a lot of back dept and could eventually shut down if Blue Streak, their star attraction, doesn't open back up. The park opened in 1892!
* Here's where you, the ATOT'er, come in. Pepsi is offering a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant award, decided by public voting, and the Blue Streak Restoration Project is in the running, currently at 18th place. The top 10 voted projects by the end of July will each receive $50,000 in funding.
So please, GO HERE TO VOTE! And you can vote once a day, every day!
FYI, I couldn't get Firefox to work when voting, so had to use IE. After voting, the "In the Running For $50K" (just above the vote button) will change to "Nice one!", "Thanks!", etc.
Also, please install the voting app to your facebook page to bring in even more votes (see app link on the voting page).
Blue Streak POV on youtube
wikipedia entry
Campaign info on park's website.
Thanks!
Blue Streak hasn't operated since 2006, and needs refurbishing to be able to do so again, but the funds aren't available to do so. The Conneaut Lake trustees are trying to raise $125,000 for this work. ACE (American Coaster Enthusiasts) has given $10,000 (here's a 6/25/10 article on that). Supposedly the park owes a lot of back dept and could eventually shut down if Blue Streak, their star attraction, doesn't open back up. The park opened in 1892!
* Here's where you, the ATOT'er, come in. Pepsi is offering a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant award, decided by public voting, and the Blue Streak Restoration Project is in the running, currently at 18th place. The top 10 voted projects by the end of July will each receive $50,000 in funding.
So please, GO HERE TO VOTE! And you can vote once a day, every day!
FYI, I couldn't get Firefox to work when voting, so had to use IE. After voting, the "In the Running For $50K" (just above the vote button) will change to "Nice one!", "Thanks!", etc.
Also, please install the voting app to your facebook page to bring in even more votes (see app link on the voting page).
Blue Streak POV on youtube
wikipedia entry
Campaign info on park's website.
Thanks!
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