Pink Monorail :Manufacturing the Magic: Knott’s Berry Farm(Ep 12)

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the twelfth installment of this educational series, Shelly & Noe Valladolid talk about how a small, roadside berry stand in Buena Park, CA eventually grew to become one of America’s most popular theme parks Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about: How an abandoned berry plant found in a ditch became a thriving family business How the tea room at Knott’s Berry Place eventually transformed into Mrs. Knott’s Chicken Dinner Restaurant How was the piece for Knott’s “Ghost Town Village” acquired Which piece of the Roaring ’20s is still in operation within the Park How did Knott’s annual Halloween Haunt hard ticket get its start Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard Pink
0:07.0	Pink Monterail.
0:08.0	I'm your pilot Michelle Vaya Doleid, and next to me is my co-pilot Noah
0:11.6	Vio DeVide.
0:12.5	Hey everybody.
0:13.2	Last time we talked about Universal Studios Hollywood,
0:16.8	where you could get a chicken dinner for five cents
0:19.4	while watching movies being made in 1915.
0:22.4	On this episode, we're going to talk about NotSbury Farm
0:25.5	where you could also get a chicken dinner for a little more than five cents. But the first
0:30.0	thing I'm going to do is go through some credits. First thing I have in my notes is Eric Linkiswiler.
0:35.0	Eric Linkwiler wrote the forward to the Notsbury Farm Book
0:38.0	and is art director over at Knotts, and a few years back he gave me the best tour of knots that's ever been done and that's where I got most of my information for this podcast.
0:49.0	The other place I got it was a book called Notts Preserved from Boysenberry to theme park the history of
0:55.6	Notts Berry Farm by Christopher Merritt. It's got five stars on Amazon 4.5 on
1:01.4	Goodreads you can get it fromreads. You can get it at Notsbury Farm, but last time I was there, April 16th, they didn't have it anywhere.
1:09.4	It's not available at Nots online store either.
1:12.1	Merritt also wrote or co-wrote the Pacific Ocean Park book
1:16.2	I'm going to reference later when I talk about Pacific Ocean Park.
1:19.9	If you want to become a Nottsbury Farm expert, buy this book.
1:23.8	Also on Nots website, the History of Notsbury Farm by Janie Ellis in 2020 for the Park's
1:30.5	100th anniversary was a big help for this episode.
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