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Going to take it easy and just look at a dozen Indiana Beach photos.

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Front of the Hoosier Hurricane car. Underneath the paint you can make out the old front, dimly.


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Near the end of the day the ride was a walk-on. I think I accidentally got the ride operator posing for me here.


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The exiting end of Hoosier Hurricane, with a view of the log flume and more stuff beyond that.


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Rocky's Rapids car going down the big plunge and, in the background, a bunch of false fronts to what I assume are just work areas.


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[personal profile] bunnyhugger getting some snaps of the sun setting behind Steel Hawg there. Go ahead, wonder how I got a photo from the exiting side while she's still on the entering side when we certainly wouldn't go on a walk-on ride like this separately.


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And some warnings before you leave. A lot of Indiana Beach's signs are still hand-painted which is why my Dad should absolutely visit there.


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Petrified Hobbes greeting people as they approach Tig'rr Coaster.


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And here we're looking from the Tig'rr Coaster platform at the Cornball Express queue, which is up a couple flights of stairs. The sign outside the park warned the ride wasn't operating that day but they changed their mind.


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Not sure if the line was that long or this many people gathered in anticipation of the ride opening. Also there is something very 70s-80s furnished basement about the wood panelling on the left there.


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Here's the moon, not knowing that in under a year we would see it eclipsing the sun. (Indiana Beach, sad to say, was just outside the path of totality, getting getting a mere 98.81%.)


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Hoosier Hurricane riding high above the Cornball Express.


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Well, you know, we've got a lot of fences here, they don't all have to be secured. (I believe this is used as a switchback gate so it's not like it serves an important safety role, other than that people will be leaning against it.)


Trivia: 9,593 particle-accelerating electromagnets are used in the Large Hadron Collider. Source: Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed The World (in a Big Way), Roma Agrawal.

Currently Reading: The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations, Jacob Soll.

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