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200-foot-tall ride opens on Myrtle Beach shorefront
Posted: 05.20.2011 at 7:03 AM
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The largest Ferris wheel in the eastern U.S. is open on the South Carolina shore.  Several hundred people were waiting this morning as local officials and the developers cut a blue ribbon opening the Myrtle Beach SkyWheel.

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