Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor, a theme and water park in Queensbury, New York, was originally Storytown USA in 1954. Renamed The Great Escape in 1983, it boasts roller coasters like the iconic Comet. In 1996, Premier Parks acquired it, and in 2006, the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark opened. The park offers diverse shows and attractions, including a unique high dive show. Despite ownership changes, it remained unbranded as Six Flags until 2022.
I did a quick and dirty map warp of the October 13, 1942 aerial photo of Underwood to show what Dysfunction Junction looked like in the 1940s and 1950s prior to early-1960s re-alignment of US 9 that included building a higher-speed legged interchange with NY 73.
I always find driving the part of the Thruway around Illion to be the most fascinating. It's an interesting mix of geologies as you rise from the end of the Mohawk Valley into the Onieda Lake plains - the mucky farm country with many a swamp and arces of fertile black dirt.