This week I report on What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Were you playing Star Trek: The Next Generation wrong for thirty years? November 2024 - January 2025 and the question posed there is because I didn't have any better questions about the strip. You know how it is.
I didn't have time to write up more about pinball so please enjoy pictures of Dollywood from our Sunday evening short visit.
Here's another roadside attraction: the hose fountain. You can see they're sprinkling water which, since it was like 140 degrees out, was much appreciated.
Continuing on; there's a lot of places to get food at the park. And they all have some reasonable vegetarian option too, which is amazing.
Another Roadside Attraction: the South's Largest Picnic Basket. I don't know if it is legitimately a picnic basket if it doesn't hold food but I'm intrigued they promise only the South's largest, not the nation's largest.
The big hill here holds another Roadside Attraction. Can you guess what it is from this view?
Park map. The park's more or less an oval shape with two branches off of it, one for this Country Fair section and one for the Wildwood Grove. Country Fair is circled by the railroad that was the original attraction that evolved into Dollywood.
More ducks! They like the place.
Here's the carousel in the Country Fair section. It's a Chance fiberglass carousel, like you see at many parks, though the good decoration makes it look fresher.
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bunnyhugger snagging a picture of the sea-dragon in case she uses it for her carousel calendar.
And here's the rabbit, twin to one on many carousels.
The painting is more delicate, though, and more ornate, even if it's been worn by use at the park.
Tried to get a candid picture of bunnyhugger on the ride.
Not sure if this is the lead horse on the carousel but the more flags on it, the more likely it is.
Trivia: As his end came, Adolph Hitler insisted on reading, or having read to him, the chapter of Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great about the death of the Empress of Russia and how that saved Frederick, and studied horoscopes predicting that catastrophe in April 1945 would be redeemed after, with a satisfactory peace by August. Source: History of the Second World War, B H Liddell Hart.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 14: 1952, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
