Volume 3, No. 14. July 25, 2003
New Arrivals
It’s
a kiddie pool!
Knoebels Groves Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, announces the
arrival of a kiddie play pool, July 19, 2003. Measurements: 2,000 square feet
(186 square meters), six tipping toucans, four bungee seats, three squirting
animals, two water canons, a frog slide, a teeter-totter, a giant mushroom,
a misting archway, all in a 1-foot-deep (30.5 centimeters) wading pool. Delivered
by Watertoys.
At
last, Knoebels has concluded its capital improvements program for the 2003 season.
President and Co-Manager Dick Knoebels came home from last Novembers' IAAPA
Trade Show with a Zamperla Rockin Tug. He then purchased a Hrubetz Super Roundup
and a Borvig sky ride, and prepared to move forward on long-standing plans to
add two Whitewater West tube slides to the existing slide tower.
The
crowning piece of the equation, though, was the kiddie pool. At last, Knoebels
had some exciting waterplay for its youngest guests. “We had a little bit
of a hole in our setup over there,” said Joe Muscato, the park’s marketing
director. “We had slides for the 48 inches and above, and we had the big
swimming pool. We didn’t have anything for the little ones. We had a kiddie
wading pool, but that’s boring in this day and age.”
Located
behind the swimming pool adjacent to the bathhouse—and in the shadows of
the Twister roller coaster—the new pool is loaded with color and
myriad ways to get wet and get friends—and parents—wet. Special guests
called on to cut the ribbon at Saturday’s grand opening were the 3-year-old
grandchildren of park co-managers Dick and Ron Knoebels.
Then the public played. “The reaction has been, ‘This is great. Finally something for little ones,’” Muscato said. “We’ve always prided ourselves in being a family destination, and that means everyone of all ages.”
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