Geauga Lake closing news story

Local news reaction to the shocking announement that Geauga Lake is closing after 119 years with no warning from its parent company Cedar Fair

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• geauga
• lake
• amusement
• park
• cedar
• fair
• bill
• spehn

[akich25]

thanks coasterdad. when was this video recroded?

[coasterdadGL]

Sometime in September 2007 right after they announced the closing

[coasterdadGL]

watch Bill Spehn bumble his way through a question at about 29 seconds

[rhaydoo]

lol @ him saying he wants to keep his kids at kenston schools, then transferring to sandusky for his job. lmao @ the guy at 33 seconds asking the question, awesome how he asked it. haha. if people believe that Cedar Fair did not buy GL for the purpose of closing it, then they have rocks in their head. It is obvious that buying it without the reasons of closing it would be unprofitable.

[WinningerProductions]

fare well geauga lake (cries)

[losky1]

Search IDORA PARK DEMISE on You Tube and you will have even more of an opinion when a park HAS to close for economic reasons. Whether it is money, greed, fire, lack of customers, or nature related. Watch the old films of a beautiful park that was once a Trolley Station at the end of the line where families would come to enjoy a picnic and casual rides. It is heart wrenching to see it, just like your park was ripped out of your town. I feel for you!

[RawrnessRawr10]

hi idiot who owns wildwater kingdom

you do know that geauga lake HAD a mini-water park before wildwater kingdom. you could have just added onto that.................

[danishbrothal]

Fat piece of trash. This is sickening.

[pyrokid08]

only in charge of WWK? thats bullshit he was the general manager of GL when I worked there the final season

[SuperiorChrysler8]

This guy is clearly a jackass, someone should have stepped in from a higher authority and give him a sift kick in the ass. People like this deserve the worst that comes to them, concerned with norhing but money.

[CAZZERNERY]

at least there is cedar point in oh

[CAZZERNERY]

@soty101202 parks are way more than that, like 1000000000

[civilwar51190]

i didn't think he is GM i though he was a VP of park operation. i might be wrong i work at cedar point durning the summer that i loved it when i asked a manager she said he was VP of park opps nice guy though

[temasongu]

I also laughed at the guy at :33; it was certainly a fair question. And while I'm sad to see Geauga Lake go, it didn't make sense from a business perspective to keep it open. Cedar Point's growing stature within the last 21 years has sucked all the amusement park air out of northern Ohio. Unfortunately Geauga Lake was doomed to go under just like Euclid Beach and Chippewa Lake, regardless of whom owned it.

[budw84]

six flags screwed the pooch

RIP Geauga Lake