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The 1931 plan to turn the pyramids into an amusement park

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In a series of illustrations under the bold headline, “Mammoth Flying Swing to Give Bird’s Eye Pyramid View,” we see the pyramids as they could have been — the main attractions in Giza’s own version of Disneyland.

Signed by Art Williamson in the June 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventionmagazine, the illustrations show three cars swirling around the top of a pyramid, driven by a huge electric motor.
via Gizmodo

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