The company later sold Kennywood, along with four other parks, in 2007 to Parques Reunidos, an international entertainment operator based in Spain.

Kennywood is approximately 8 miles (13 km) from Downtown Pittsburgh, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

In 1898, the Monongahela Street Railways Company, partially owned by prominent banker Andrew Mellon, seeking to increase fare profits on the weekends, leased the land from the Kenny family in order to create a trolley park at the end of their line.

[9] The company's chief engineer, George S. Davidson, designed the original layout of the park and served as its first manager.

[9] From its origin as a working-class picnic entertainment destination, the park grew in the first half of the twentieth century into a popular attraction that combined thrill rides with recreation venues such as swimming pools and dance halls.

Thunderbolt and Jack Rabbit, both wooden coasters, place the lift chain in the middle of the ride, not at the beginning.

Music is provided by a 1916 Wurlitzer style #153 Military Band Organ, which is the oldest of its kind in existence.

[45] Earlier in 1988, Rick Sebak also made a film at the park titled Kennywood Memories, considered a classic WQED film by locals in addition to the park itself, as well as regarded by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review as one of Sebak's most popular documentaries.

The song was released on a limited-edition 45 vinyl pressing and sold as a $1.99 fundraising item for Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital through the now-defunct National Record Mart.