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Elvis' Favorite Rollercoaster May Be Zippin' Into WI Submitted: 02/08/2010
TENNESSEE - If the mayor of Green Bay gets his way, the old wooden roller coaster Elvis Presley loved to ride will be rolling north.

Mayor Jim Schmitt and Green Bay's parks director Bill Landvatter were in Memphis Monday, looking over the Zippin Pippin, which is being dismantled.

A Tennessee newspaper says Schmitt won't tell the asking price, but says most of what he anticipates his city paying would be to move the coaster to Bay Beach Amusement Park.


It's being disassembled after the closure of Libertyland Amusement Park in 2005 and the planned redevelopment of the site.

Schmitt says he's talked to city engineers and said ``this can happen.''

Schmitt says he recommends his city to work diligently to get Pippin on the move.



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