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Knotts Berry Farm
COUNTRY
America
ADDRESS
8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA 90620, United States.
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About Knotts Berry Farm
Located in Buena Park is the 160-acre theme park called Knott's Berry Farm. It is known for its adventurous rides, live shows, and the famous, modern-day updated version of the Tea shop, "Mrs. Knott's chicken dinner restaurant". It is a much-loved theme loved, by children and adults too.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Knotts Berry Farm
- The original Berry farm was owned by a man named Walter Knott. He and his wife, Cordelia Knott, sold berries, berry preserves, and pies from a roadside stand during the 1920s.
- Walter came across a hybrid of blackberry, a red raspberry, and a loganberry cross-bred by Rudolph Boysen. Rudolph also gave Walter his last six wilted berry-hybrid plants which then were planted and cultivated by Walter. The family sold the berries at their roadside stand and called them "boysenberries".
- The theme park today, has about 40 rides ranging from water slides, roller coasters, family rides, children's rides, historical rides, etc.
- It was named the 12th most-visited theme park in North America in the year 2015. It is also labeled as America's 1st theme park, dating back to the 1920s.
- After the success of their berries, the couple also started selling fried chicken dinners in a tea room on the farm in 1934. This later became Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant. the classic dinner is largely the same: three pieces of fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, a choice of cabbage or cherry rhubarb, and biscuits with boysenberry preserves.
- The first true live shows at the park were presented in the year 1954 at the small Bird Cage Theatre. It presented melodramas, classic tales of villains, good guys, and damsels in distress?and it still presents those stories, often, but with 21st-century humor. The Old West flavor continues at the musical revues at Calico Saloon Show, and the open-air Wagon Camp theater presents crowd-pleasers like the Wild West Stunt Show, which combines a cowboy-fueled showdown.
- Knott's Peanuts Celebration held on select weekends in late January and February, features live shows with ?Peanuts? characters and hosts meet-and-greets. The Knott?s Boysenberry Festival is when your pass gets you tastings of creative berry-fueled dishes like chicken wings with a boysenberry glaze, or quesadillas made with purple boysenberry. Knott's Scary Farm, from mid-September through Halloween, is when the park gets a spooky makeover, with haunted houses and mazes. The park walkways are even in play, with creepy clowns and zombies popping in and out of the fog.
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