Found both Loch Ness Monster & Escape from Pompeii in VA.
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The Loch Ness Monster is a steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, noted at the time of its opening in 1978 as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster,[1] as well as the first coaster with two interlocking loops.
The Loch Ness [2] remains the only roller coaster with two interlocking loops[3] — other similar designs having been dismantled.
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Escape from Pompeii is a shoot-the-chutes water attraction designed by Intamin located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Beginning in the early 1970s, the Busch Gardens theme park was developed by Anheuser-Busch (A-B) as a portion of the company's development investment in the Williamsburg area, which grew to include a brewery, the Kingsmill Resort, as well as residential and office properties.
The St. Louis-based brewer invested in the area following negotiations held between August Busch, II and Winthrop Rockefeller, who was both 'governor of Arkansas and chairman of Colonial Williamsburg in the 1960s and 1970s.[2]
Bus(c)hies & Rockefellers = Quelle surprise. Wonder what they're running in & out of those Gardens across the Trail from Yorktown NWS.
<Got to give it to them though. They do have some creative esoteric agitprop artists on the payroll.
The attraction is based on the ancient city of Pompeii when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Guests board flat bottom boats that advance through the attraction along a canal of water as if the volcano is alive once again.. Special effects include swinging flickering lights, cracking wooden boards, burning walls and ceilings, and tumbling statues. At the end of the ride guests go through a misty dark room right before they go down the five story drop into the splash pool below.