Six Flags Over Texas turns 65 this year, and it was never supposed to last this long. Developer Angus G. Wynne Jr. built it in 1961 as a short-term moneymaker, a way to squeeze cash out of a parcel of land before turning it into an industrial park. He’d just visited the newly opened Disneyland and came home convinced Dallas-Fort Worth needed something similar, built around Texas history instead of a cartoon mouse.
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