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Been a week, hasn't it? Here's my humor blog and you can practically smell me running on empty:
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 4
- Sad News From the Backyard
- Statistics Saturday: Some Improbable Covers of _Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead_
- The Mountain States Are Really Coming Together
- Probably phone booths disappear even faster because of all the Underdog activity
- What's Going On In Rex Morgan, M.D.? Was this the first we saw Aunt Tildy in four years? February - April 2024
- I Am Feeling Called Out by This _Pot-Shots_
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 5
Now, how about those Indiana Beach photos I originally intended to come out here for Tuesday?
Hey, here's an exciting midway prize, Radioactive Scooby-Doo.
I waited for the sky chair ride and here's people on the platform, some of whom seem to be facing the wrong way. Not sure about that.
Here's the mechanism, and the fan, for the sky chair ride. I like pictures of how stuff works.
From the platform I could peek into the Starlite Room, or something like that, the indoor sit-in restaurant where we ate once back before the pandemic started.
View over to the Ideal Beach waterpark (Ideal Beach was the name Indiana Beach started out under). The water park was closed that day.
Inspection stickers for the sky ride, so you know it was safe to ride. From this we learn the maximum safe travel speed is ten feet per second.
Almost ready to take off! I put my camera away for the ride because the signs said to and I remembered what happened with those girls at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk even though I don't actually know what happened there.
Chair ready to scoop me up and you notice here the brace system seems flimsy. It locks down so it's more secure than you'd think.
On the far side (about where we entered the park this time), I got this nice view of the sun setting the trees on fire.
And that's the other sky ride station. Compare it to one of the pictures I had from right after we crossed that bridge.
Sky ride station, and Ferris wheel, and Cornball Express. Underneath, some bathrooms.
More of the setting sun between the supports for Cornball Express.
Trivia: In mid-September 1927 the Columbia Phonograph Company took over the radio operations of the bankrupt United Independent Broadcasters radio network. After eight weeks the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System had exhausted its funds and the phonograph company was looking to sell out. Source: The Mighty Music Box: The Golden Age of Musical Radio, Thomas A DeLong.
Currently Reading: The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations, Jacob Soll.
