Since 2009, the Nationwide Curler Coaster Museum & Archives (NRCMA) in Plainview, Texas, has been running tirelessly to lend a hand maintain the original historical past of US amusement parks.
From accumulating previous curler coaster blueprints, experience automobiles or even whole observe sections, our challenge has been to inform the tale of this really American artwork shape that has swept the globe.
Some of the biggest tasks the museum has undertaken has been to maintain and rebuild a corkscrew inversion from a retired coaster.
First opened in 1975 because the Chicago Loop in Bolingbrook, Illinois, it used to be the second one “corkscrew” curler coaster observe ever constructed through the Arrow Construction Corporate of Mountain View, CA. The experience then made a number of stops around the nation sooner than after all being retired because the Canobie Corkscrew from Canobie Lake Park in Salem, New Hampshire.
When the observe reached the top of its carrier lifestyles, the park coordinated with the NRCMA to rigorously dismantle and send the second one of 2 “corkscrews” right here to West Texas for everlasting show. It must be famous that those rides have been by no means designed or engineered to transport — that they controlled to take action is a testomony to their tough design.
Our board chairman, Jeff Novotny, had vital enjoy with Simpson Robust-Tie in his former place as an amusement experience producer. He contacted his former Simpson rep to peer whether or not it could be conceivable to have the important {hardware} donated to lend a hand carry the Canobie Corkscrew again to lifestyles as the center piece of the museum. We equipped 72 of 1-1/4″ X 24″ Pre-Assembled Anchor Bolts for this challenge.
Now those footers stand able to carry up a work of amusement park historical past, because of the generosity of Simpson Robust-Tie and their dedication to preservation.
