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I'm sorry, but haven't the time to write about our next adventure today. Just as well; it's about another really good trip to Michigan's Adventure so having a little time between two visits should help keep things clearer for people following my life day-by-day.
Meanwhile, those who like to keep up with comic strips may want to know What's Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Did *anything* happen in The Phantom? as I recap June - September 2022 in the Sunday strip's plot. It hasn't been busy and I don't want to sound like I'm snarking on that fact.
And now here's a double dose of pictures from Carello's Arcade and Sylvan Beach Amusement Park.
Coin-op features at Carello's Arcade include a couple of photo booths that we didn't use.
And then some more of the sorts of redemption games you'd expect. I thought there might be pinball and there was not ... here.
A peek inside the machinery of the 1890s carousel! It looks like ... there's a circuit breaker and a lever in there.
Yes, a circuit breaker, two levers, and a wooden corner to things.
Back outside, and to the Sylvan Beach park. Here's the front of Galaxi, with the long walk to where you enter and exit your cars.
And there's the front of Rotor. Not operating, although that seems to have been just for the day or some similarly short time. A trash bin's an easy way to close off a queue without having to do anything hard to reopen things.
Sylvan Beach's own carousel, a 1950s(?) Theel carousel with metal horses. The ride operator wished the horses were painted better but they're really not bad, especially for this sort of ride.
Slightly better view of some of the Theel carousel horses. The ride is in the shadow of the Galaxi roller coaster and, we would later discover, was accidentally omitted from the park's charming online map.
Shadow of the Galaxi ride sign's 'A' on one of the maintenance buildings. For some reason this accident captured my imagination.
Playland, one of the arcades, offers old-fashioned skee-ball, as well as a bunch of mechanical redemption games. And, on the right there, Fascination!
Laffland, meanwhile, offers the 'World's Craziest Ride'; it's a respectably long dark ride past haunted-house attractions.
You'll laugh, you'll scream, you'll holler, you'll howl ... ride and laugh ... Laffland promises, in front of images of a demon and a headless skeleton-bat that's possibly a vampire?
Trivia: In 1238 the northern-European merchants who traditionally arrived to Yarmouth, on England's east coast, to buy herring never arrived. But ambassadors representing the Assassins sect in what is now Iran and Syria arrived in England and France, appealing for help ``on behalf of the whole of the people of the East'' against the Mongol invasion. Source: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name, Toby Lester. Ah, but this story of Muslims reaching out to Christians to band together against a new, terrifying outside threat offers great hopes for our ability as a species to unify in the face of unprecedented dangers, right? (Reads the next page.) Oh.
Currently Reading: High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolotics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945 - 1999, Erik M Conway.
