Everything sucks. Here's my humor blog for the last week.
- MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 4 of 12)
- A Further Report On My Tooth Indignities
- Statistics Saturday: Most Commonly Misspelled US Cities
- What I Thought About All The Paramount Popeye Cartoons
- Somehow Funky Winkerbean Is Being Even More Like That
- Seriously, What the Absolute Flipping Heck Is WRONG With You, Funky Winkerbean?
- What's Going On In Gil Thorp? What's this about Coach Thorp telling a kid to get an abortion? July - September 2022
- MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 5 of 12)
Now we get through the gates at Seabreeze and start our day, already in the early afternon.
Just inside the park and looking south there's the Seabreeze Flyers, a flying scooters ride, and you can see Jack Rabbit, the 102-year-old roller coaster that we could not miss.
The Wish-You-Were-Here standee they set up for people to take pictures with. Note the jackrabbit logo too.
And here's the carousel, newly-carved in the 1990s to replace an antique destroyed by fire.
Seabreeze's carousel in motion. Around the edges of the building, where there aren't rocking chairs, are signs and posters about the park's history.
Jackrabbit detail carved into the horse that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger had ridden.
A plaque, 'Carousel Dedicated June 1, 1996 in tribute to George W Long Jr. We dedicate this carousel and the happiness it represents to the family os Greater Rochester and the State of New York, in recognition of the community's longstanding tradition of supporting the park. - The Seabreeze Family.' I know it's hard to read with the reflection of people seated and the park ride beyond it but I also think that kind of makes the image.
Trivia: Charles Edison noted his father's dislike of paid newspaper advertising, something he dismissed as superfluous for him and (in one memorandum to his British agent, who was placing flamboyant advertisements for the phonograph) saying how ``I don't propose to be Barnumized''. Source: Edison: A Biography, Matthew Josephson. Josephson notes that, yes, Thomas Edison clearly had a powerful need for publicity, even if he didn't acknowledge it in himself and seems to have thought of himself as a reserved person.
Currently Reading: A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstration the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics, Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, Sylvia Donmoyer.
