# @cowmissing on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CbjtCMTOfQ2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16182715-cowmissing-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-26T07:00:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cow Missing (@CowMissing) — https://gondola.cc/CowMissing

## Caption

Flashback Friday (1989): Earthquake: The Big One, at Universal Studios Tour (Hollywood), opened 33 years ago today.

“Universal's "Big One" was built in an enclosed set at a cost of $14 million. Its original opening date in November was delayed because of design problems. Set in a San Francisco subway station, "The Big One" features a violently shaking platform on which Universal Studios tram cars sit, a runaway subway car littered with bodies, erupting sidewalks, a burst propane tank, a 60,000-gallon wall of water, collapsing ceilings, sparking transformers and several other disaster-related effects. Barry Upson, MCA's (Universal) Executive Vice President for Planning and Development (Universal Creative) stated having bodies in the attraction's runaway subway car “is simply show business." The 145-second simulation, staged as many as 200 times a day, is designed to mimic an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the open-ended Richter scale, estimated by seismologists to be about the same magnitude as the 1906 San Francisco shock that leveled 500 square blocks. 

With 4.2 million visitors in 1988, the tour of Universal Studios -- home of the "King Kong" and "Jaws" attractions -- was the nation's fourth most popular theme park. Adult admission is $18.95.” ~ John Horn, Washington Post (3/21/89)

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