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The park, with its name originally two words, Hershey Park, opened in the early 1900s when Milton Hershey built it for his chocolate factory workers and their families. Mitchell Layton/Getty Images

The costume maker who convinced Hersheypark to embrace candy mascots and ‘chocolatize’ their old‑timey theme park

Hersheypark underwent a total transformation in the 1970s, when candy mascots and thrill rides replaced barn animals and old-timey recreations of Tudor England.

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