It's now a full year since they took my job away from me. It wasn't much of a job, but it was income enough for my needs and even to put away a little in savings. I thought all that time of how I was pretty well-prepared, having savings and a lifestyle that would be adequate to even a year without income, and it turns out I was right.
And now it's a year that everyone has spent telling me I'm an incredibly desirable candidate and in a job market everyone says is hotter than it's been since World War II, and where everyone says employers are desperate to find people who are willing to work for pay, and it's all a lie.
Here's an extra bunch of Sylvan Beach pictures to make up for my not having anything good to say today.
Some of the many coin-op games they had besides Fascination. Twenty-One is a game that Waldameer Park had our first visits there. Roll the balls to get as close to 21 as you can; you can see the ticket payouts on the signs there.
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bunnyhugger getting ready to win some tickets and taking a look at the Tic-Tac-Toe machines.
The Tic-Tac-Toe machines, which we didn't play; most of them were marked out of order. But you can see enough of the playfields toget the idea.
bunnyhugger showing off her skills at Pokerino, rolling balls to collect hands of cards.
I had a fair Pokerino hand going --- two of a kind, worth like five tickets --- and then the game didn't give me my fifth ball, so it just turned off without any resolution.
Heading out from there, here's the kiddieland area, starting with the two-seater tanks.
Ticket booth at kiddieland, which you can use for tickets or wristbands for the whole park.
The pricing board which only looks like it's too complicated for a small park like this. The reflections make this picture hard to read but on my original you can make out the full list of rides and what their ticket prices are. The kiddieland booth doesn't offer the ghost tours.
Pony cart ride in Kiddieland. According to the ticket box it's 'Buggy'.
Some more of the kiddie rides, which include a Turtle, a junior Tumble Bug/Turtle ride. ('Turtle' the name is painted on the ride's exit gate.) There's more of these junior tumble bugs than there are the full-size rides anymore, sad to say. Note how behind all this there's not a miniature golf course.
More of the rides, including a junior Ferris wheel like many that kiddielands have.
And the boat ride, something that I always loved as a kid because hey, water!
Trivia: National Cash Register's Dayton factory grew from 283 people in 1890 to 2,819 in 1902, supporting in late 1902 some 6,829 orders. Source: Before The Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry they Created, 1865 - 1956, James W Cortada.
Currently Reading: The Adventures of Little Archie, Volume 2, Editor Victor Gorelick.
