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[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0477]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Double loop roller coaster, largest single addition to Six Flags Over Texas in its 18 year history, came to Oklahoma City this week in from the form of model, Bruce Neal/ public rotations manager, said the $2 million ride, called Shock Wave, is combination of "an ultra sophisticated steel coaster and two vertical loops towering 70 feet in the air. Construction will be completed in time for spring 1978 opening at the Arlington, Tex., park."
Date: November 30, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5912]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Unscheduled Attraction at Springlake Amusement Park is mass of crumpled metal and cinders following an early-morning fire that wrecked the four-unit building. The structure housed the park's fun house, electric "Bumper" cars and shooting gallery. Also ruined was the roller coaster building. Marvin Staton, park manager, said the concrete and steel building was supposedly "fireproof." The building was partially covered by insurance. The structure was erected in 1946 after a 1945 blaze destroyed the original building. The fire touched off several thousands of rounds of ammunition in the shooting gallery, but no one was injured."
Date: May 30, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History