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Amusement company on the boardwalk of ocean city maryland. been a roller coaster ride trying to change through family dynamics and keeping an old school business relevant. i went down to find out the trick to surviving through so many generations and to running an old school business in a modern, high tech world. for brooks and christopher trimper and their aunt stephanie trimper trimper-lewis, taking it over was as much destiny as choice. >> my grandfather called and wanted me to take over. >> ...

Attractions. as the ocean city boardwalk grew over the last century, so did the company. from here all the way to the end this is all trimper? >> yes, all the way to the end, to the water. >> experiment is brooks trimper, the fifth generation. the great, great grandson of the founder. from the perspective of any thrill seeker looking to hop onto the freak out or someone looking to win a big stuffed animal at the horse race, it all looks easy. fun and games really. but to brooks and his family, r...

Understandable, everyone does. and so being natural core family that runs it, i feel that my grandfather left us with that responsibility, not only do we need to provide an amusement park for the people of ocean city, but we need to provide a return for our shareholders. >> this place has history. its hard to change anything. it took brooks and christopher an entire year to take credit cards. >> there are people stuck in their ways. 100 years it doesnt matter if a policy comes out, this is how w...