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The Cincy Shirts Podcast Episode 173: LeSourdsville Lake/Americana Amusement Park

Scott Fowler is historian and former employee of the old LeSourdsville Lake/Americana Amusement Park amusement park. It was located where Route 63 meets Route 4 in Monroe, Ohio, and though it's bee...

Australia's Wonderland, Kings Island’s Long-Lost Sister Park

For 19 years, starting in 1985, Kings Island had a sister park Down Under. Originally called Australia’s Wonderland, the park opened on December 7, 1985, as the sixth member of the Kings Entertainm...

Kings Island Says Goodbye to Vortex

Vortex is the coaster that really shouldn’t have existed. Its debut came on April 11, 1987, sitting on the footprint of the late, great Bat roller coaster. It even used the Bat's old loading statio...

The Beast Turns 40

After 40 years, The Beast, Kings Island’s world-famous roller coaster, is still insane. It just is. Today, only two coasters in the world are longer. There are of course many, many coasters that ar...

Farewell Firehawk, We Hardly Knew Ya’

Firehawk is joining the original Bat, King Cobra, Son of Beast, and other former Kings Island rides in that great amusement park in the sky. As part of the park’s annual Haunt event, a mysterious f...