The
WOOZ, member of the defunct theme park club, was located in Vacaville, CA...right across the highway from the Nut Tree. Billed as "America's Biggest Human Labyrinth", it was basically a wooden corn maze. What the developers didn't seem to realize was that Vacaville in the summer is
HOT, and paying money to find your way out of an un-shaded maze in 100-degree weather was kind of a tough sell.
Opened in August1988 (as you can see from the ticket timestamps, TSG visited shortly after the attraction premiered), the ill-fated attraction languished for almost a decade before being sold off and eventually burned down as a training exercise for regional firefighters.
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In the midwest, we call them "corn mazes."
That seems like a fair amount of capital investment to build that thing. And run it. Gotta wander through it at closing time to make sure there's no overnighters, too. I can picture big kids running full speed through it, running over and stomping on little kids (at least, that's what happens in corn mazes).
Thanks for sharing this, it was interesting to consider.
Quite coincidentally (unless someone there is reading TSG, which seems pretty unlikely...) a Wooz-y article appeared today in SFGATE:
The history of the hottest, most ill-advised theme park ever made: The Wooz
I clicked and read that article. Some amusing additional color commentary. Perhaps the place would have done better if they'd had a compelling theme song, like, say, "We Just Zoom In" by the Baja Brigade.
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