Wednesday, July 8, 2020

ZOOM Upside Down And Backwards


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.