Taking the chance now to catch up on my humor blog? Good time for it. I've got three days' worth of Popeye-related stuff to talk about, for example, and of course there's talk about everyone's favorite very-vaguely-car-guy-themed story strip too!
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 20
- Statistics December: People Like Me Having Good Opinions About Soup
- Statistics Saturday: Best Days Of 2024 (So Far)
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 9: Dr Junior and Mr Hyde
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 9: Popeye’s Surfin’ Adventure
- Popeye artist has yet another side gig
- What’s Going On In Gasoline Alley? Why are Rufus and Joel in Charlotte, North Carolina? October 2023 – January 2024
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 21
And now please enjoy reviewing the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, which was a great spot to visit.
Another look toward the setting sun from beside the Haunted Castle, a dark ride we didn't take in on Friday because of the line.
Here's the swinging ship ride. You can see we're between live performances, too, on the small stage.
The covered area of the Colonnade. Seaside Heights needs some of that for hanging out in the arcades during the winter.
Checking in on the Roll-A-Bingo, which as you can see has gorgeous lighting from tables and seats just like in a science fiction set.
Here's the western end of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and the end of the Colonnade and all.
And a historical plaque discussing the park's history.
Looff carousel horse put on display rather than the carousel itself. I'm not clear if this is one which had been on the ride and was replaced, or taken off for safekeeping, or replaced with a replica or whatnot.
In-boardwalk plaque celebrating the boardwalk as a whole.
They had a movie-on-the-beach night going. I forget what they were showing but I think it was a different weekend they were showing Lilo and Stitch. And you can see they were advertising the upcoming National Carousel Day, the 25th of July, a day we couldn't go to a carousel together.
Here's the Pirate Ship swinging and getting lit up for the night.
More ride lights coming on and showing off in the dimming sunlight.
And we can't neglect that there was a whole beach out there too, and we could enjoy the sight of that.
Trivia: Building the Hoover Dam required enough sand and gravel to fill a train stretching 1,300 miles long. Source: The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Vince Beiser. I don't know if that's Beiser's calculation or something drawn from a press release the Henry J Kaiser corporation put out in 1931.
Currently Reading: Modesty Blaise: Live Bait, Peter O'Donnell, Enric Badia Romero. A not-exactly-Christmas-gift from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's father, who is buying new copies of his Modesty Blaise books on the pretext he's giving the old ones to me but still wants the whole set.
