Jun 6th, 2011 at 5:00PM: Pirates and mermaids have taken over Dolly Parton's popular Western-themed Dixie Stampede theater show in Myrtle Beach, hoisting the Jolly Roger where cowboys had previously performed stunts for 19 years.
The Dixie Stampede dinner show, which is still running in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri, closed its doors in South Carolina last year. After an $11 million renovation that ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Dolly Parton's 'Pirates Voyage' replaces 'Dixie Stampede' in Myrtle Beach
Jun 6th, 2011 at 5:00PM: Pirates and mermaids have taken over Dolly Parton's popular Western-themed Dixie Stampede theater show in Myrtle Beach, hoisting the Jolly Roger where cowboys had previously performed stunts for 19 years.
The Dixie Stampede dinner show, which is still running in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri, closed its doors in South Carolina last year. After an $11 million renovation that ...Theme park news roundup: The word of the day is giga-coaster
Apr 7th, 2010 at 3:00PM: The new Intimidator 305 roller coaster has opened at Kings Dominion theme park in Richmond, VA. The coaster, named in honor of the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, has ride cars that look like Earnhardt's famous black Chevy. Earnhardt's daughter Taylor visited the park last week to open the ride.
The Intimidator 305 screams along at 92 miles per hour, thanks to a 300-foot drop at the ...
Second-tier airports still getting action
Mar 17th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Smaller airports may have trouble supporting the needs of large airlines, but smaller carriers are filling in the gaps. Direct Air, for example, moved into Toledo to connect those Ohioans with Myrtle Beach, SC and Punta Gorda, FL – at dirt cheap prices. And, everyone knows that Toledo is a hotbed of trendsetters ... While these smaller airlines do provide service from local airports, saving ...The World's Tallest Sandcastle and Other Sandsculpture Marvels
Jun 11th, 2007 at 3:48PM: Earlier this month, a seven-person team of professional "sandcastlers" from Sarasota, Florida plugged away during Myrtle Beach's 2007 Sun Fun Festival. As a result of the pluck of "Team Sandtastic," Myrtle Beach can now boast that it created the World's Tallest Sandcastle. Measured by an independent surveyor, the sandcastle towered 49.55 feet in the air -- until Tropical Storm Barry did a little ...
