Panoramic view of construction of Magic Mountain's Colossus roller coaster, Calif., 1978

Title: Panoramic view of construction of Magic Mountain's Colossus roller coaster, Calif., 1978
Photographer: Kennedy, Joe
Date Created: April 7, 1978
Date: 1978-04-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Caption: WORLD'S BIGGEST--Rightly named the Colossus, this granddaddy of all roller coasters is nearing completion at the Magic Mountain amusement park at Valencia. Scheduled to open in middle or late May, it will be the longest, tallest and fastest such ride anywhere, with two steep falls of more than 100 feet. It is being built entirely of wood, including the side-by-side tracks on which cars will cover 1.75 miles at more than 60 m.p.h. The huge structure. more than 150 feet tall and 1,068 feet long, is being built in three sections that gradually are growing close to one another.

Genre: Panoramic photographs
news photographs
Names: Magic Mountain, inc.
Location: Placentia (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Amusement parks--California, Southern
Entertainment
Roller coasters--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b920_287252
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002rkbd
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