Knott's Berry Farm

Previous "Merry Farm" events have included manufactured snow, handcrafts exhibits, and a "visit with Santa Claus." This event was originally created by Gary Salisbury in the Fall of 1985. She considers each architectural feature, chapter by chapter, to reveal how various art deco styles influenced British domestic architecture in 1920s and 1930s. A Christmas event, known as "Knott's Merry Farm" also happens annually. Jean Gardner's book Houses of the Art Deco Years ISBN 1898030715 looks at the influence of art deco upon suburban housing styles in England. Season of Screams also highlights recent Halloween Haunts. This is still the image of Art Deco held in the minds of most Americans. Season of Screams is a DVD produced by an independent company which traces the beginnings of Halloween Haunt and the story behind how it all got started back in 1973. A resurgence of interest in Art Deco came with graphic design in the 1980s, where its association with film noir and 1930s glamour led to its use in ads for jewelry and fashion.

Interesting facts: During the month of October, Knott's Scary Farm generates HALF the revenue for Knott's Berry Farm's fiscal year. In colonial countries such as India, it became a gateway for Modernism and continued to be used well into the 1960s. Elvira (actress Cassandra Peterson) was introduced into the Halloween Event in 1982 and was prominently featured in many Halloween Haunt events. Eventually the style was cut short by the austerities of World War II. Several attractions are decorated for the event including the Timber Mountain Log Ride and Calico Mine Train and there are 10 or more mazes of various themes from aliens to spiders to clowns from outer-space. Art Deco slowly lost patronage in the West after reaching mass production, where it began to be derided as gaudy and presenting a false image of luxury. Over a thousand specially employed monsters are also scattered - oftentimes hidden out of view - throughout the park at this time. Some historians see Art Deco as a type of or early form of Modernism.

During this special ticketed event, the entire park (or major portions of it) rethemes itself into a "haunted house" style attraction in the form of "mazes" and "scare zones" in the evening. In architecture, this style was characterised by rounded corners, used predominantly for buildings at road junctions. The event was created by Bill Hollingshead and Gary Salisbury as documented in the DVD Season of Screams. Once the Chrysler Air-Flo design of 1933 was successful, "streamlined" forms began to be used even for objects such as pencil sharpeners and refrigerators. The park's annual Halloween Haunt has drawn crowds since 1973. A parallel movement following close behind, the Streamline or Streamline Moderne, was influenced by manufacturing and streamlining techniques arising from science and mass production- shape of bullet, liners, etc., where aerodynamics are involved. It features no actual "rides", but instead is a showcase of Native American art, crafts, and dance. Art Deco was a popular style for interiors of cinema theatres and ocean liners such as the Ile de France and Normandie.

The most recent addition to the park, Indian Trails is a small area sandwiched in between Camp Snoopy, Ghost Town, and Fiesta Village. Art Deco was an opulent style and this opulence is attributed as a reaction to the forced austerity during the years of World War I. It is also home to Mystery Lodge, a multimedia show based on an Expo 86 pavilion featuring a Native American storyteller. Some of these motifs were ubiquitous- for example the sunburst motif was used in such varied contexts as a lady's shoe, a radiator grille, the auditorium of the Radio City Music Hall and the spire of the Chrysler Building. Wild Water Wilderness is a small area that features one major ride: the Big Foot Rapids river raft ride. The bold use of zigzag and stepped forms, and sweeping curves (unlike the sinuous curves of the Art nouveau), chevron patterns, and the sunburst motif. Schulz "Peanuts" comic strip characters. Corresponding to these influences, the Art Deco is characterised by use of materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, lacquer, inlaid wood, sharkskin, and zebraskin.

It is themed around the Charles M. It is considered to be eclectic, being influenced by a variety of sources, to name a few:. Camp Snoopy is targeted towards younger visitors, with many of the rides and attractions being built specifically for children. Its practitioners were not working as a coherent community. The Supreme Scream is now the tallest structure in Orange County at 300 feet in height. The term Art Deco was coined during the Exposition of 1925 but did not receive wider usage until it was re-evaluated in the 1960s. It is also home to the Sky Cabin Tower, which once also housed the Parachute Sky Jump attraction and was, at one time, the tallest structure in Orange County. Paris remained the center of the high end of Art Deco design, epitomized in furniture by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, the best-known of Art Deco furniture designers and perhaps the last of the traditional Parisian ébénistes, and Jean-Jacques Rateau, the firm of Süe et Mare, the screens of Eileen Gray, wrought iron of Edgar Brandt, metalwork and lacquer of Swiss-Jewish Jean Dunand, the glass of René Lalique and Maurice Marinot, clocks and jewelry by Cartier.

Other rides include the roller coaster Boomerang. until about 1928, when it quickly modulated into the Streamline Moderne during the 1930s, the decade with which Americanized Art Deco is most strongly associated today. Originally themed as a gypsy camp, and later re-themed to the "Roaring 20's" and "Knott's Airfield", this area is home to most of the park's major thrill rides, such as the recently constructed Xcelerator (which replaced the failed Windjammer racing coaster, known to be a mechanical nightmare by employees) , Supreme Scream, and Perilous Plunge. Art Deco did not originate with the Exposition; it was a major style in Europe from the early 1920s, though it did not catch on in the U.S. Fiesta Village is a Latin-themed area which features a number of carnival-style attractions, including the Montezooma's Revenge roller coaster and the Jaguar! family roller coaster. Art Deco derived its name from the World's fair held in Paris in 1925, formally titled the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which showcased French luxury goods and reassured the world that Paris remained the international center of style after World War I. In 1966 he donated the town to San Bernardino County, which made it a regional park. .

Walter Knott purchased the Calico ghost town in 1951 and restored it. Art Deco (French: Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) was an early twentieth century movement in the decorative arts, that also grew in influence to affect architecture, fashion and the visual arts. The Ghost Town section is based upon the real ghost town of Calico, California near Barstow, and other ghost towns in the Western United States. Far Eastern University Campus in the City of Manila, Philippines. The Bird Cage Theatre melodrama theater (recently closed) has launched many acting careers, including Steve Martin's. Former Pennsylvania Railroad 30th Street Station and Suburban Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ghost Town itself has a place in history aside from the buildings brought here. South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida.

In late 2004 Knott's opened the longest inverted roller coaster on the West Coast, Silver Bullet. 720 and 730 Fort Washington Avenue, in the Hudson Heights area of Manhattan in New York City, New York. More recently, the much-acclaimed GhostRider wooden roller coaster has been added. Carbon and Carbide Building. This themed area includes attractions such as the narrow gauge Ghost Town & Calico Railroad (using much historic equipment from Colorado narrow-gauge lines), the Butterfield Stagecoach, a Pan-for-Gold attraction, the Calico Mine Train dark ride, Timber Mountain Log Ride which is the world's first log flume attraction, and The Wild West Stunt Show. Chicago Board of Trade Building. Ghost Town is the oldest part of the Knott's amusement park, and includes most of the buildings Walter brought to the property in the 1940's and 1950's. Chicago, Illinois