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Well, nobody's snuck up and written my mathematics blog for me so here, enjoy pictures of Crossroads Village directly, please.
Tracking shot of the carousel, going for the carousel since that's a nice easy target. Well, the back of the chariot came in focus at least.
Looking at the carousel at speed, with one of the snowflake decorations to show for it. The structure in the lower center is the ticket booth.
Operator warning the carousel riders not to get off their horses until the ride comes to a stop.
The horses get these blankets in the winter, which we had thought were simply decoration before realizing they're also protection against snow and ice.
This shot of the ride has an unusually good glowing streak of light to recommend it.
Almost immediately after the ride they turned the lights out on us!
Looking up at the carousel with its own lights turned off.
Looking back at the horses, as we worried we had to get out before we were in trouble.
One more quick photograph of the carousel dark but the building not yet shut up.
The ticket booth as we left for the night.
And here's the building getting ready to shut down for the night.
The carousel building has a nice brass (or 'brass') horse on top, above the center pole of the ride; you can just see it peeking out the C W Parker Carousel sign here.
Trivia: In response to New Jersey declaring itself import-tariff-free in 1783, New York (which did charge tariffs) enacted anti-smuggling policies for goods moving across the Hudson River. In relation for this New Jersey imposed an annual tax of £30 for the lighthouse New York had built on Sandy Hook. Source: New Jersey from Colony to State, 1609 - 1789, Richard McCormick. McCormick doesn't say what the anti-smuggling policies were.
Currently Reading: A History of The World's Airlines, R E G Davies. OK, I should have had patience. Davies discussed the Comet-1 disaster in more detail in a chapter about post-war British airlines and has a footnote that it's discussed even further in a coming chapter specifically about British Overseas Airway Corporation/British European Airways (with a side of British South American Airways).
