hard rock park
| 4:30PM 7/10/2009
Hard Rock Park still can't fill the house. The little theme park that couldn't opened a year ago in Myrtle Beach, S.C., failed to impress, and went belly up after a single season. This spring, it relaunched, sans hippy-dippy rock 'n' roll tie-ins for the few rides, as the Freestyle Music Park, the...
| 12:00PM 4/11/2009
We have a resolution to a problem covered on these pages a few weeks ago. Steven Goodwin's ploy to force the struggling Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach to pay him $500,000 a year plus 1.5% of revenues for the use of the name has ended with empty pockets. Rather than indulge him, the new owners of...
| 5:30PM 9/05/2008
You'd think that America's amusement parks would be in a prime position for capitalizing on the floppy economy. Families may not be willing to fly to Rome or Rio right now, but a Six Flags or a Knott's Berry Farm is closer to home and ultimately cheaper to accomplish. In fact, this summer, Disney...