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('WMBUfc, i 4 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT.;"JULY25,1981 ' 7f . Sesame Place bills itself as a new concept in active fami ly entertainment and as a "playground of the future." A joint venture of the pro ducers of Sesame Street (The Children's Television Workshop) and the Bush Sesame Place, A New Concept In Family Entertainment Active Entertainment Corporation,' the park is designed to stretch the minds and muscles of three- to thirteen-year-olds and features a com bination of outdoor play at tractions, hands-on science exhibits and indoor educa tional computer games. ' Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, The Count and other Sesame Street favorites are all part of the motif. Opened in June 1980, the park is located in historic Bucks County, v"t: Penn- Monday-Friday Daytime July 27-31. 1981 CH2 CH rJV?t 7SN9 WRAL WTBS WGHP "" CH. 2 CH. 28 CH. 11 CH.4 CH. 5 CH. 5 CH. 17 CH 8 1 Cable? Cable 3 Cable 6 Cable 9 Cable W Cable 12 Cable 13 7SiU T-- horning NewZoo V ' y ' y ,1 30 ' - J". 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Originally intended for the five-million residents of the rather than tourists,: Sesame ' Place offers any visitor a chance to play for the small price of $3.95 plus tax. Outdoors, there are 40 elements to climb on, crawl over slide down or bounce against. Cargo nets strung four stories above the ground allow kids to scramble across the park. A dip in The Count's Ballroom means a swim through a two-foot-deep poor of some 80,000 blue plastic -balls. The Monster Maze is a forest of six-foot-high, lightweight punching bags, -and Cookie Mountain is an eight-foot-high vinyl precipice. The science exhibits in clude the Teleidoscopic Tem ple, a -specially mirrored room where children learn how kaleidoscopes work, and the Talking Picture Show, which converts the human voice into digital im pulses that are displayed as colored shapes and patterns on a television mirror. The electronic game arcade features the largest selection of educational computer games in the United States Drawing on the latest in micro-computers, -. video technology ..and computer assisted - - instruction, the games offer children an op portunity to create their 6wn Sesame Street characters, write their own Sesame Place myster or- simulate the business ; operation of- a lemonade stand. If all . this, produces' a ravenous appetite, the Sesame Food Factory offers atmosphere : and nutritious cuisine created by Joseph H. Baum, designer of JMew York City's Windows on : the World at the, World Trade Center and the Four Seasons. The fare ; includes ' sand wiches served on soft pretzels made of '' whole grain and unbleached flour, and sparkling sodas made from natural fruit juices. The restaurant sports an open kit . chen where diners can watch -every step of food prepara tion from chopping fruits and vegetables to-making bread and ice cream. , The grand finale to anv visit is a trip to the working replica of the Sesame Street television set. complete wit Oscar the Grouch, trash cans and video monitors that turn everyone into stars of the show, and a stop at' Mr. Hooper's Emporium, t the first shop to assemble all of the Sesame Street toys and other products under one roof. 'A GOOD NEIGHBOR Wrtl II n Utit e uio UA.er AT THE SAME TIME WE MAKF Ol IRft MO R.E.PAGE;. PLUMBING SERVICE; 682-1605 ' From 6:30-8: i.mwit V- Daily After 4 p.m. WlthSlccExc i Tho iMn.tn l 1 : . . ..n. acme niurvuieni in bleep Eze helps you get a good night $ sleep, and wake only as up refreshed. directed. Use
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