In 1986 it was the third-largest US theme park by attendance, with 4.9 million visitors per year, behind only Walt Disney World and Disneyland. What was the name of this South Carolina attraction?
Heritage USA was an American Christian-themed water park, theme park and residential complex in Fort Mill, South Carolina built by televangelist Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye Bakker, founders of PTL Club (short for "Praise The Lord").
Heritage USA opened in 1978, and by 1986 it attracted nearly 6 million visitors annually and employed around 2,500 people. The facilities included the 501-room Heritage Grand Hotel, the attraction Main Street USA, an indoor shopping complex, the Heritage Village Church, Upper Room, a 400-unit campground, The Jerusalem Amphitheater, conference facilities, King's Castle, a skating rink, prayer and counseling services, cable television production studios, Bible and evangelism school, visitor retreat housing, staff and volunteer housing, timeshares and the Heritage Island water park and recreational facilities. It was the third-largest theme park by attendance, with 4.9 million visitors per year, behind only Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Heritage USA was described as a Christian version of Disneyland; before the scandal leading to its closure, Jim Bakker had plans to expand the park.
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Heritage USA. Opened in 1978, it was the brain child of a TV Evangelist/Con Man/Fornicator/Thief named James Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye. The Bakkers hosted a popular TV show "The PTL Club." According to Bakker, PTL meant, "Praise The Lord" but cynics said it really meant "Pass The Loot." Eventually the long arm of the law (finally) caught up with James Bakker (after a series of sex and financial scandals) and when the flow of money raised by the TV show was cut off, the pyramid scheme that was Heritage USA collapsed and the park was closed for good in 1989.
Mark. said:
I can't tell from a Google search. I was able to find some listings of a
Six Flags South Carolina (aka Charleston Gardens). However other
searches did not list South Carolina as having a Six Flags. Well played,
Marty. You stumped me again.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Heritage USA
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Original videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing which a NASA intern bought for $217.77 (£174.14) were sold for $1.82 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Saturday.
They were bought by Gary George at a government surplus auction in 1976.
Lasting two hours and 24 minutes, the tapes are far sharper than those seen around the world at the time of the moon landing on July 20 1969.
Mr George was an engineering student at Lamar University in Texas as well as an intern at the NASA Johnson Space Centre in Houston.
He bought around 1,500 reels of magnetic tape and gave most away, apart from three which his father noticed were labelled "APOLLO 11 EVA | July 20, 1969 REEL 1.
SAG-AFTRA said Sunday it will codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators, addressing a workplace issue that has become increasingly conspicuous in the #MeToo era.
"The guidelines will seek to establish new, relevant policies for nudity and simulated sex; define the duties and standards for intimacy coordinators on productions; and specify acceptable training, vetting and qualifications of intimacy coordinators," the union said.
In order to formulate the new guidelines, the guild said it will collaborate with Alicia Rodis, associate director and co-founder of Intimacy Directors International, the intimacy coordinators with IDI and other trained providers. HBO drama The Deuce in 2018 gained attention for hiring an intimacy coordinator.
"Our goal is to normalize and promote the use of intimacy coordinators within our industry," SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris said. "Intimacy coordinators provide an important safety net for our members doing hyper-exposed work. At a time when the industry still needs to make great changes, our initiative will ensure the safety and security of SAG-AFTRA members while they work and respects the boundaries of actors."
A disabled veteran whose Arizona mobile home was seized and sold over a few hundred dollars in back taxes will keep his home.
Maricopa County officials brokered a deal Friday that will allow Jim Boerner to stay in his home.
The County Treasurer's Office confirmed Boerner will not face eviction from the auction winner, who threatened to remove him.
County Attorney Bill Montgomery helped reach a deal with Boerner, the Treasurer's Office and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
Boerner's plight captured national attention after a story by The Arizona Republic detailed how he lost his home and faced eviction over a few hundred dollars in back taxes - even though he already paid the bill.
Seth MacFarlane's space adventure series The Orville is moving to Hulu from Fox for its upcoming third season. The series will be available exclusively on the streaming service as a Hulu Original in late 2020. MacFarlane made the announcement today during the show's panel at Comic-Con in San Diego.
As for the decision to move the series, which was renewed by Fox for a third season in May, Deadline hears the show has evolved and production timelines have pushed delivery, making what was planned as a mid-season debut difficult. The show has a passionate fan base, and Hulu was able to step in as a home where the show can continue. Following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets, Hulu is now a corporate sibling to The Orville producer 20th TV, where MacFarlane has long been under a deal, but Fox no longer is.
"The Orville has been a labor of love for me, and there are two companies which have supported that vision in a big way: 20th Century Fox Television, where I've had a deal since the start of my career, and Fox Broadcasting Company, now Fox Entertainment, which has been my broadcast home for over 20 years," MacFarlane said in announcing the move.
A move to Hulu allows more flexibility with episode orders and running times as well as production schedules, which was important to MacFarlane.
Created and written by MacFarlane, the hour-long sci-fi adventure series is set 400 years in the future and follows The U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, both human and alien, face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the problems of everyday life. MacFarlane plays Capt. Ed Mercer, and directed some episodes.
In 2005, Don-Old Trump (R-Failure) had an idea to boost ratings for The Apprentice, a US TV show that he hosted at the time. He suggested putting an all-white team against an all-black team, believing that it would become the highest-rated show on television if the network did so.
He floated the idea on Howard Stern's radio show in April 2005, according to The New York Times.
"Do you like it?" Trump asked Stern. To which he replied: "Yes."
Trump then asked Stern's African-American co-host, Robin Quivers, the same question. "Well," she said, "I think you're going to have a riot."
But Trump wasn't too concerned about the potential ramifications of the show. "I think that it would be handled very beautifully by me. Because, as you know, I'm very diplomatic," he told Stern, adding that while there would be a mix of light-skinned and dark-skinned black contestants, the white team would be strictly blonds.
President Don-Old Trump (R-Grifter) pledged to re-establish U.S. dominance in space, a day after he welcomed the surviving Apollo 11 astronauts to the White House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
"Sustained exploration that extends from our Earth to the Moon and on to the Martian surface will usher in a new era of American ingenuity," Trump said in a message on Saturday, which he declared Space Exploration Day.
Trump on Friday invited retired astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, and the family of Neil Armstrong -- the first man to walk on the moon -- to the White House to mark the space milestone. "NASA's back," Trump said. "We're having rich guys use it and pay us rent."
The U.S. lost its domestic capability to put humans in orbit after the shuttle program was shut down in 2011 without a replacement, and relied on Russia to send astronauts to work in the International Space Station. Trump has waffled on NASA's priorities. In December 2017, he directed the space agency to return astronauts to the moon by 2025, then in a June tweet made Mars the priority.
The space agency recently announced it would allow "private astronauts" to pay to visit the International Space Station.
Fears over melting glaciers are also fuelling a tourism boom in Alaska, with visitors flocking to the region to see the spectacular formations in their current glory.
Rising summer temperatures in recent years have contributed to the rapid decline of a number of storied glaciers, as well as making them harder for travellers to access.
Climate scientists have warned that Alaska's glaciers are uniquely vulnerable to the warmer summer seasons and are losing mass at an increasingly fast pace.
But as people become more aware of the perils of a changing climate, a desire to see Alaska's spectacular landscape sooner rather than later seems to have taken hold.
Tour companies in the region are reporting a huge increase in demand for glacier-related activities, while cruise ships experienced a record season last year, with the number of customers up 33 per cent compared to 2010.
American crocodiles, once headed toward extinction, are thriving at an unusual spot - the canals surrounding a South Florida nuclear plant.
Last week, 73 crocodile hatchlings were rescued by a team of specialists at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point nuclear plant and dozens more are expected to emerge soon.
Turkey Point's 168-mile (270 kilometers) of man-made canals serve as the home to several hundred crocodiles, where a team of specialists working for FPL monitors and protects them from hunting and climate change.
From January to April, Michael Lloret, an FPL wildlife biologist and crocodile specialist, helps create nests and ponds on berms for crocodiles to nest. Once the hatchlings are reared and left by the mother, the team captures them. They are measured and tagged with microchips to observe their development. Lloret then relocates them to increase survival rates.
Temperature determines the crocodiles' sex: the hotter it is the more likely males are hatched. Lloret said this year's hatchlings are male-heavy due to last month being the hottest June on record globally.
If there was any doubt that the 2019 box office belonged to the Walt Disney Co., this weekend put an end to it. Not only did its photorealistic remake of "The Lion King" devour opening weekend records for the month of July and PG-rated films, but "Avengers: Endgame" also crept past "Avatar" to become the highest-grossing film of all time.
"The Lion King" this weekend roared into 4,725 North American theaters, where it grossed a stunning $185 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday. Although reviews were mixed for Jon Favreau's remake of the 1994 animated film, audiences still turned out in droves to hear the A-list voice cast, from Beyoncé to Donald Glover, and see the innovative technology that made the film possible.
Industry experts had pegged "The Lion King" for a $150 million opening, which turned out to be far too modest a projection. Instead, with $185 million, Disney got a few records to boast about: It's the ninth-biggest opening of all time, a July record (unseating "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"), and a PG-rating record (taking over from "The Incredibles 2").
It's the second time this year a beloved Disney brand has overwhelmed a tepid critical response. "Aladdin," which is still in the top 10 after nine weeks in theaters, has made $989 million globally.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1."The Lion King," $185 million.
2."Spider-Man: Far From Home," $21 million.
3."Toy Story 4," $14.6 million.
4."Crawl," $6 million.
5."Yesterday," $5.1 million.
6."Stuber," $4 million.
7."Aladdin," $3.8 million.
8."Annabelle Comes Home," $2.7 million.
9."Midsommar," $1.6 million.
10."The Secret Life of Pets 2," $1.5 million.
Satirist, publisher, author and American counter-culture figure Paul Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, California on July 21. He was 87. His daughter Holly Krassner Dawson, confirmed the news to the Associated Press.
Born in New York City on April 9, 1932, Krassner eventually moved to Southern California where he lived with his wife Nancy Cain in Desert Hot Springs.
He's best known for editing Lenny Bruce's autobiography, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People," in 1965 and founding The Realist, the forerunner to National Lampoon, which he published from 1958 to 2001.
A child prodigy on violin, he performed at Carnegie Hall when he was six. Krassner later attended Baruch College in New York.
Inspired by Bruce, he went back to the stage, but as a stand-up comedian at popular clubs like the Village Gate.
He became friendly with Groucho Marx and famously got the comedian to take LSD, which he chronicled in a High Times cover story in 1981.
Krassner wrote and edited several other books, including "How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years (1971)," "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture" (1994), "Pot Stories for the Soul" (1999), "Psychedelic Trips for the Mind" (2001), "Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs" (2004) and "Who's to Say What's Obscene?" (2009).
Krassner co-founded the Youth International Party (YIPPIE), which he named, in 1967. The Yippies, based in New York, took a more humorous approach to politics, running a pig for president and attempting to levitate the White House. The other YIPPIE founders were Abbie and Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Phil Ochs, Ed Sanders, Bob Fass, Stewart Albert, Nancy Kurshan and Keith Lampe.
Always ahead of his time, Krassner contributed articles to Cavalier, the forerunner to Playboy, beginning in 1964. About his experiences at the magazine, he recently wrote in Variety:
"I wrote some movie reviews for Cavalier. I always went to two screenings. The first one I would go stoned with magic mushrooms. The second one I took notes. However, I got fired by Cavalier.
"They declined to publish a particular column - my review of 'MASH' as though it were a Busby Berkeley musical called 'Gook Killers of 1970' - ostensibly on the grounds of bad taste, but I learned that three wholesalers had told the publisher they were pressured by the FBI and would refuse to distribute Cavalier if my name appeared in it. It was over for me, but it had been fun."
Paul Krassner is survived by his wife and daughter.
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