On Thursday July 30, 2015, I was at Sesame Place for the 35 th Birthday Celebration and I decided to take some comparison photos so you can see the changes. ![]() We also wanted to make sure everything was captured and presented in a way that Sesame Street fans, that had never visited the park, could look at this book and get a full understanding on what happened over the past 35 years. ![]() We wanted to make sure that no matter what your favorite part of Sesame Place history was, that you could see it in the book. We inspected each and made charts cross-checking each change in the park to try to make sure each important difference was noted by a color photograph. In making the book Sesame Place, Chris Mercaldo and I went through every photo we could find at Sesame Place’s offices and hundreds taken by longtime park employee Greg Hartley. As I researched the park I found that almost every square inch has changed, some places changing several times, since 1980. I didn’t go back for decades and I was amazed at the changes. I was a small child and I was fascinated by it. In the early 1980s I went to Sesame Place. “Sesame Place is not a ‘theme park’ but rather an innovative play park intended to provide educational recreation for families with children ranging in age from pre-school to pre-teen,” the letter read in part. Firstenberg was correcting the publication for referring to Sesame Place as a “theme park.” The Octoedition of Intelligent Machines Journal featured a letter from Children’s Television Workshop’s Executive Vice President Paul Firstenberg. When Sesame Place opened in 1980 it was a 3 acre “play park.” Today it is a 14 acre “theme park.” This change didn’t happen overnight and it wasn’t expected. The following article was written by the Sesame Place book’s co-author Guy Hutchinson. When the Burns family bought tickets, they entered a contract with the amusement park, said Ruff, and by being discriminated by costume character actors, this contract was "breached, solely because of the race of the children.Welcome to Sesame Place Week – Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Sesame Street-themed amusement park! We’re bringing to you a week full of articles with the cooperation of Guy Hutchinson, the co-author of the new book chronicling the history of Sesame Place.Īs a bonus, ToughPigs readers can receive $2 off the cover price of the book, which comes with a signed copy of the book, a current park map, and a vintage Sesame Place token! Click here to place your order and enter the code TOUGHPIGS at checkout for your discount! The suit claims that Sesame Place violated Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which protects people against racial discrimination in the creation and enforcing of contracts. engages in pervasive and appalling race discrimination against children in the operation of Sesame Place Philadelphia. The lawsuit alleges that SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. The child's family says four Sesame Place characters ignored her when they visited the park on Father's Day of this year. The law firm released its own video that it says shows several Sesame Place characters snubbing 5-year-old Kennedi Burns, a Black child visiting from Maryland. ![]() The Wednesday afternoon announcement from attorneys with Murphy, Falcon & Murphy comes following outrage over a viral video that appears to show the costumed character, Rosita, snubbing two young Black girls during a parade at the park.īut Malcolm Ruff, one of the attorneys, said they are representing the Burns family, a different family than the one seen in the viral video. PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) - A Baltimore-based law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Sesame Place after another family said they were treated unfairly due to the color of their skin. But Malcolm Ruff, one of the attorneys, said they are representing the Burns family, a different family than the one seen in the most recent video.
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