some celebrities have also been on the iconic roller coaster including Wilt Chamberlain, nicknamed the "Big Dipper." The 7-foot-tall center played five seasons with the Warriors including when ...

(KGO) -- This day in 1924, the legendary Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster opened to guests ... "It's my first big coaster. I'm just excited for it to be 100 years old today," Paisley Prater ...

“Do I think it would survive the Big One ... ll never forget his first ride on the Giant Dipper as a child: the speed at which the roller coaster took off, the disorientation he felt as ...

(Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk) View from the "Big Dipper" roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. (Patrick Tehan / Mercury News) Riders on the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz ...

Hundreds lined up to ride the iconic Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk ... “A hundred years ago when this ride opened, there was a big gala in the Cocoanut Grove and ...

Krug Park’s Big Dipper roller coaster, shown in 1929, dated to 1917. Killed on the Big Dipper were cement company salesman Charles H. Stout, 34; Gladys Lundgren, 29, of Des Moines, who was ...

Richard Rodriguez yesterday stepped off the Big Dipper roller-coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in northwest England, which he had ridden continuously since June 9 except for breaks of five ...

Newspapers dubbed roller coasters “the great American scream ... Spanish Fort had the Big Dipper. “Big” might have been a bit of a stretch — it peaked at around 30 feet.

“A hundred years ago when this ride opened, there was a big gala in the Cocoanut Grove and people ... Boardwalk family to ride this historic wonderful wooden roller coaster — the Giant Dipper.” After ...

“A hundred years ago when this ride opened, there was a big gala in the Cocoanut ... ride this historic wonderful wooden roller coaster — the Giant Dipper.” After reading the mayoral ...