The Giant Dipper by night.

Phoenix Coverley

The Giant Dipper is a famous wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California, USA. It was designed by Frank Prior and Fredrick Church with a double out and back layout and built by Arthur Looff in 1924 in just 47 days at a cost of $50,000. It opened on May 17th of that year and it cost 15 cents back then. Over the years more than 50 million people have ridden this magnificent old coaster. It has appeared in many television commercials and movies, including The Lost Boys, Sudden Impact and Dangerous Minds.

Looff described his plans for the coaster as a, "combination earthquake, balloon ascension, and aeroplane drop."

The Giant Dipper is the sixth oldest American coaster.
-From Wikipedia.


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