Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, never let it fade away

[austin_dern]

Taking it easy today; enjoy a dozen Indiana Beach photos, mostly of roller coasters.

Watching the Hoosier Hurricane rounding a return leg. This sort of banked hill is all over manufacturer Custom Coasters Incorporated designs.

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And prancing back over a bunny hop here!

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And here's another train ready for the lift hill.

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Current livery for the roller coaster; here's what the front of the car gives you.

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You enter, as often happens, by walking a bridge over the track to get to the loading gates.

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From atop that bridge you get to see that the shaved ice stand is trying to appeal to people who're on the rides above it!

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Falling Star is a different ride, a Miami- or Moby Dick-type sideways pendulum ride. Here's a picture of the trustworthy if slightly worn control panel; you can see the deadman's switch on the ground.

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And there's the Falling Star, rising. Bunch of stars are underneath the seat platform.

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Here's the Musik Express, making up in lights for a lack of a particular paint job for the backdrop. Curiosity: Over the tunnels those clearly used to be eight-legged 'stars', but the two bottom-diagonal legs (the ones pointing southeast and southwest) were removed from both. What's the story there? We have no answer.

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Tantalus: the safety and height signs for Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain, even though the ride wouldn't get into operating.

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Superstition Mountain, here, originally a dark ride and now a dark ride building that's had a wooden(!) roller coaster shoved into it.

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The ``lift hill'' for LoCoSuMo is an elevator; here's the top of that mechanism. The car rolls off this and then throws you around like you were in a tornado. It's an incredibly intense ride.

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Trivia: The Federal Art Project sponsored a four-part History of Aviation mural series for the main lobby of the terminal at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn (now, more or less, JFK International Airport). After Eugene Chodorow and August Henkel completed it, anti-Communist watchers complained the murals were full of Marxist content (eg, the Wright Brothers dressed in outfits that look too Russian, or a red star on a Navy plane that should have had a white star, or an aviator with a thick moustache that made him look like Stalin). WPA administrator Colonel Brehon B Somervell ordered an immediate investigation and the murals were destroyed. Source: Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Alastair Gordon.

Currently Reading: The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, Dava Sobel.

Comments

[armiphlage]

Rooftop advertising is definitely creative there!