I took a break from Popeye and Son over on my wildly popular humor blog so that I could do more Year In Review nonsense. If you're just now catching up to my excellent content, please, take this chance and enjoy:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 19
- The Year In Review: Top _Shrek_ Trivia Nights Of 2023
- The Year In Review: Top Winning Football Scores Of 2023
- The Year In Review: Top Losing Football Scores Of Of 2023
- The Year In Review: Top Search Engine Prompts of 2023
- What’s Going On In Prince Valiant? Is Aleta trying to shoo Valiant away? October – December 2023
- The Year In Review: Top Things Learned After It Was Too Late of 2023
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 20
Next up in my Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk pictures? Photographs from the one ride I went on that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger did not. She used the time to take her daily walk. Me, I used the time for ...
The sky chair ride! Sky Glider, to use the proper name. Here's what the unloading/loading station looks like as you get ready to join the line.
Ride operator measuring a kid for a height check, here.
And here's celebrity guest rider Joe E Brown! ... Or one of the cavemen figures who've been riding as a promotional feature since the Cave Train opened in 1961.
The caveman has car number 30, and it turns out they've got all the cars on in numerical order, or at least did the day I was there. I imagine that order must be important to them if they've ever got it.
I don't have pictures from on the ride; they have signs prohibiting that and while I figured I could get away with it, I didn't want to push my luck. So, here's the chair I just got off, at the other side of the Sky Glider. You can see the Giant Dipper to the right.
Did I say I figured I could get away with taking out my phone? Because here, while I was in line for the return trip, a couple security guys came up to the platform ...
... and they walked two women off. Outside the station they talked at some length about something. I don't know what. However, since it had to be something happening on a sky lift ride ... I mean, taking out a phone and getting pictures where anyone, such as ride operators watching for potential trouble, can see you, is the first thing my mind thinks of.
Getting closer to the start of my return leg here. I took the picture now because of the Giant Dipper train on the lift hill, but I'm curious about the body language of the two people getting off the ride there.
I'm done with my ride and back where I started! And hey, who's that coming in on Sky Glider car number 10 there?
That's right, it's the cavewoman, twenty cars --- half the ride --- out of phase with Joe E Brown!
They don't do the safety checks on the cavemen.
And as you see, car number 10. Also you can see activity on the Undertow roller coaster.
Trivia: In the 1760s the British parliament prohibited the colonists in North America from making hats, at the behest of English hatters. Source: The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H W Brands. (Brands doesn't give a specific date for this; it's in a chapter dated 1768-69, but we are talking about stuff that was simmering for a long while.)
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Sundays Supplement Volume 9: 1947, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
