View showing visitors riding the Florida Hurricane roller coaster at the Boardwalk and Baseball theme park in Haines City, Florida.

Title

• View showing visitors riding the Florida Hurricane roller coaster at the Boardwalk and Baseball theme park in Haines City, Florida.

Image Number

• COM02392

Year

• Between 1987 and 1990

Series Title

• General: Department of Commerce collection
• Specific: Department of Commerce collection Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 1, FF71

General Note

• Circus World was built in 1973 by the Felds (then owners of Ringling Bros.) to combine circus based shows and amusement park rides with a new winter quarters for the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. It was later sold to Mattel, Inc. who sold it to developer Jim Monaghan in 1984. Sold to Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich in 1986 who shut the park down and rebuilt it as Boardwalk and Baseball which opened on February 14, 1987. HBJ sold its theme park assets (which included SeaWorld and Cypress Gardens) to Busch Entertainment Corporation on September 28, 1989 and Busch closed Boardwalk and Baseball on January 17, 1990.

Creator

• Florida. - Division of Tourism.

Physical Description

• 1 slide - col.

Subject Term

• Service industries--Florida--Haines City
• Tourism--Florida--Haines City
• Tourists--Florida--Haines City
• Parks--Public use
• Amusement parks--Florida--Haines City
• Attractions--Florida--Haines City
• Amusements
• Roller coasters
• Florida Hurricane (Roller coaster)
• Amusement rides

Geographic Term

• Polk County (Fla.)
• Boardwalk and Baseball (Haines City, Fla.)

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