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Here, have some more of Seabreeze.
Some of Seabreeze's library of Wurlitzer scrolls, which they claim to be the largest in the world.
I wanted a picture of the Jack Rabbit drive wheel, but this guy kept standing in front, reading every single word of every single panel very slowly, to the point that it became almost the motif of the day.
The park's photograph of the Jack Rabbit as it looked when it opened; there's an inset of the construction crew, which built the thing in like five hours or some similarly riotously short time.
Photograph of the drie wheel when it was still in use, and a comparison to the modern system.
Jack Rabbit, like many roller coasters, is an out-and-back, meaning just what it sounds like. Here's the look of the thing from a vintage photograph.
Patent diagram of the under-friction or upstop wheels, the things that keep a roller coaster rain from flying off the track and make air time hills like Jack Rabbit has a safe and sane thing. Pretty near any roller coaster built since 1920 has this system or the equivalent.
Antique carousel lion on display in the little park-history museum that fills out the carousel building. The tile at the bottom is from the natatorium that was one of the park's attractions in the 1920s; I think it was the biggest salt-water pool in the state?
More carousel horses, and you can see the little kiddie-size elephant on the left there. I think these are all from carousels the Long family (owners of the park for generations) carved or operated.
Pieces from dragon boats that the park used to have.
And the parking-station lights that the place used to use for drive-up business.
Bigger picture of the various articles on exhibit, from one of the Long's desks through to the Wurlitzer in the upper right corner.
And what it's all about: their carousel, carved in the 90s but looking like a piece from the Golden Age of Carousels.
Trivia: The Apollo program had a budget of about one million dollars in 1961; it was about $162 million in 1962. Source: The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation, Michael Cassutt.
Currently Reading: Defining NASA: The Historical Debate Over the Agency's Mission, W D Kay.
