austin_dern | Take me to the fair (Reply)

Although my mathematics blog had its usual single post this week, it's still worth looking at. Here's recent writing from it:

Next up in photos is our anniversary trip to Indiana Beach amusement park. Not pictured: five hours of driving. You're welcome.

The walk from Indiana Beach's free parking lot to the actual entrance brought us to this sign, making us aware of a drive-in. Who knew? There's no full-time drive-ins anywhere near Lansing but there's one in Monticello, Indiana?

The outskirts of Indiana Beach. And ... this ride. When we last saw it, it was La Quimera, at La Feria Chapultepec Magico, in Mexico City. This is one of two roller coasters from La Feria that Gene Staples, the Indiana Bech guy, bought and moved back to the United States.

So, um. Probably not going to be running today, huh? The coaster seemed assembled but there's no station or any of the support structures yet.

La Quimera --- now to be American Dreier Looping --- was set up in what used to be a gravel parking lot, at the far end of the parking lot. Probably about where we parked when we visited in 2016, at that. Steel Hawg, on the left there, is the roller coaster with the 8th-steepest drop in the world, with a 111-degree drop on that first hill.

The entrance booths had some sad news, though. The Hoosier Hurricane, their biggest roller coaster, would not run. The Merry-Go-Round neither.

Still, we felt reassured by seeing that the gift shop still had its nice 1950s(?) vintage name and signage. We'd worried the new owners might try to make it look more slick and contemporary. sWe shouldn't have worried.

Trivia: August 1949 BINAC, the Binary Automatic Computer, became operational, running in a test for 43 hours without any stops or errors. (The contract for it had been issued in October 1947.) Source: Eniac, Scott McCartney.

Currently Reading: An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942, Peter Grosse.

Take me to the fair

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