ABOVE: Universal pioneered the horror film genre, and a hideous host of ghouls and gremlins inhabit the House of Horrors.
What is almost as remarkable as this
colossal thrill and fun zone is the real-life rags-to-riches story of how it came into being. Universal Studios was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, a German-Jewish immigrant who reportedly came to America with only $5 in his pocket. After arriving in America, he spent the
next decade in a series of dead-end jobs, mostly in Chicago, and then worked for twelve years in a dry goods store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He went on to buy nickelodeons, and later produced movies. Universal was founded by Laemmle in New York. In 1915 he opened the world’s largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, on
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The “Revenge of The Mummy” ride thrills visitors as it brings them up close and personal with the tattered, 5,000 year old sociopath...
