BEECH MOUNTAIN -- The North Carolina theme park Land of Oz will soon reopen for a limited time. The park opened in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, in 1970 but closed 10 years later, according WGHP.… ...

The Land of Oz was a fully functioning theme park created in 1970. The park was rebuilt under new management in 1975 after a fire was set to the Emerald City and closed in the fall of 1980.

For The Wizard of Oz, her salary was $125 a week — roughly $2,200 in today's dollars — which was more than what many of the human actors received, and roughly 10 times the minimum wage of the ...