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Sorry, I spent the whole day cleaning stuff out for the big floor job this week, and plus it's Sunday and I always just do photographs for that anyway. So here goes, from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk:

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Returning to the carousel; here's a picture showing the styling of the building and the picture above the entrance.


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Here's one of the steel rings, held back so you could see what it looks like. It's greasier than its counterparts at Knoebels or Gillian's Wonderland Pier, I assume because the more-automated system needs the lubrication.


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Oh look, the roof is smiling at the ride!


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And now for another ride on the Giant Dipper. The safety instruction video is hosted by this anthropomorphized-hastily MyBoardwalk Play Card, and the whole thing looks like this.


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Oh, got a glimpse of one of the cavemen on the sky ride!


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Looking through the crown of the loading station at what sure looks like a smile in the coaster.


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The clouds don't look very happy, but they held off doing anything untoward while the lights got going.


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In the background you can see the lift hill of Giant Dipper lit up.


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Ooh, spooky! The owl statue is there to scare off easily impressed minor birds.


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Going back around for night rides. The park closed its rides about 9 pm which was barely sunset; unfortunately, we could only have stayed and ridden later if we'd been there the 4th of July instead.


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Lift hill seen from the crown around the loading station. Also I am pretty sure that's not the brake lever there, just a broom.


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Giant Dipper train warping back into the station.


Trivia: Nogi, in Mackinac County, Michigan, was founded in 1905 as a logging camp and sawmill for the Central Paper Company of Muskegon; after about twenty years it was destroyed by forest fires. It was named for Count Maresuke Nogi, Japanese hero of the Russo-Japanese War. Source: Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities, Walter Romig.

Currently Reading: Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog, Walt Kelly.

PS: Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 6: Junior Gets A Job, a showcase for Bluto's complex personality, right?

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