SF 1974 Pic and 2000 Pic

[danieln84]

Picture BEFORE Six flags was there.....at least thats what it said


Picture in 2000...it really shows how the spot looked before a park

[coastercrazy111]

Wow, that is pretty awesome to see how it looked. You can actually envision the outline of the park just looking at the emtpy space. That is really cool...where did you get that from?

[CoasterDude12-2]

Wow! We really have developed. That looks weird. Are those Google photos?

[rct2wizard360]

It's weird at the fact that I still see the park in the empty photo...

[playerplex]

Yeah, it looks just like it without the rides and stuff there.

[da rcman2001]

Probibly because ground construction was beginning around that time and they were still moving around land; not because the land allways looked like great america .

[Mr. D.T.]

And the surrounding neighborhoods have always been there.

[Losiento1224]

It'd be sweet if Six Flags bought some of the houses/property across the closed off entrance for an expansion.....just a thought

[sixflagsguy5]

It would cost too much. I have heard that those houses cost a lot.

[Losiento1224]

Well for a future possible expansion. I was just saying.

[Mr. D.T.]

And they should really expand that parking lot. It's way too small now.

[Chubbychipmunk]

wow amazing..it totally looked like nothing before..

[Timmy179]

^ Uhh, It was nothing!?!?!?

[chiatrain]

Some information/history on the development of the park can be found here.

p.s.: Today, May 29th, is Great America's 29th birthday.

[Aero737]

Hey, nice compairson, looks like 94 was just a 4 lane highway at the time.

[danieln84]

I found them on a website, while yes, lookin through google, i love those pictures

[twixmix0303]

I know a while back the 94/132 interchange used to be the only full cloverleaf between there and O'Hare