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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.[/quote]

+1 it’s hard to imagine how you fumble the bag that badly on a big amusement park a short drive from DC. But here we are.

I think this is indicative of a larger economic downturn too. Entertainment and travel spending is the first thing to be cut when the economy goes south. If we had stronger economic indicators, they’d probably keep it going a few more summers. Instead they’re just cutting bait now. [/quote]

You are way, way, way overthinking it bro.

White people weren't safe there. So we didn't go. That's ~40% of the marketplace opting out. 
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I’m the PP that used to go all the time.  I’m white and never felt unsafe.  We typically left by about 4 pm (or by 7 for the fall festival).  There were teens that got a little rowdy in the later evenings but I never felt unsafe — we just kept our distance from any large group of congregating teens.  I realize there were some bad fights in the parking lot over the years but I don’t think it was a regular occurrence and it wasn’t targeted at white people.

I do think it struggled because of racist attitudes about it being in PG and being mostly staffed by black youth.  Lots of white peolle I talked to seemed to have negative attitudes without ever going.

Also six flags has been the down market amusement park chain for decades and is almost always hovering around bankruptcy.  So there were periods when they put a splurge of investment into the park and then long periods when they ignored it and let us get run down.  They really needed better management and probably to pay their staff more.  I get the impression at Hershey that those folks are thrilled to have gotten that as a summer job (suggesting pay is decent) whereas I always got the impression at six flags that the people working there hated their jobs with a passion and were doing the bare minimum (suggesting it wasn’t great pay and wasn’t anyone’s first choice for the summer). [/quote]

You are assuming that pay is the factor which determines the customer service levels of low-skilled workers.

As someone who spends a lot of time in both MoCo, PG, and rural America, this is very much not the case. [/quote]

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