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This week was one of my most pop-culture-heavy weeks on my humor blog, including two Popeye and Son reviews, a Doctor Who joke, a follow-up on the Snorks, and of course the Gil Thorp plot update that I think I made pretty coherent considering all the storylines going on there. But you tell me what you think.
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 13
- It’s Three, Which Is One More Than I Expected
- Statistics Saturday: Cleaning Schedule For The Thanksgiving Holiday
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 3: Bluto’s Wave Pool
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 3: Here Today, Goon Tomorrow
- What’s Going On In Gil Thorp? Did Gil Thorp’s kid have an abortion? August – November 2023
- And Now a News Piece for the 60th Anniversary
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 14
That all read now, let's take in pictures just barely starting our first day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk:
Photograph of one of the posted park maps. If there were a printed version available we didn't find it.
But we did find pinball! All modern stuff: the new Stern Star Wars, Aerosmith, The Munsters, and Ghostbusters (the last of their pre-LED-screen tables).
More of the games: Ghostbusters photographed a second time, Deadpool, Stranger Things, and past that post Godzilla, The Mandalorian, and James Bond.
Told you: Godzilla, The Mandalorian, and James Bond (Dr No edition). We'd have played but you couldn't just drop quarters in and play, you had to get a card.
Photographs of old Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk stuff from the wall not far off the pinball machines.
A plaque there describes some of the boardwalk's history. You can see a carousel picture; I think that's not their current carousel.
Advertising the opening of Giant Dipper; you can see how among its features was that it was constructed with things. (227,000 board feet of lumber; 743,000 galvanized nails; 24,000 galvanized bolts; 63,000 pounds steel track and safety irons; 2,748 gallons of paint; 148,000 pounds of concrete; 21,600 screws; 29,500 square feet of roofing.)
Photograph of an old car for the Giant Dipper, and picture of the Wild Mouse, which was removed in 1976.
Ah yes, Popeye and ... brussels sprouts? Miniature golfing? The heck is this Jack Kinney nonsense?
The building with the pinball machines and the historical plaques also had a pirate-themed miniature golf. The big building on the right here is a mock lighthouse.
Looking down on the miniature golf course. Tempting, isn't it?
The boardwalk has a Laffing Sal, and laughing and wobbling around still. And well-guarded by the historical plaques explaining this was on display at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk forever.
Trivia: In the early 1950s 20th Century Fox allowed Paul Terry to explore selling his cartoons to television stations, but stipulated that they must not be ones competing with theatrical product, so, only black-and-white cartoons, with re-filmed opening titles. Thus 1930s star Farmer Al Falfa came to television as Farmer Gray. Source: Terrytoons: The Story of Paul Terry and his Classic Cartoon Factory, W Gerald Hamonic. But hey, Puddy the Pup and Kiko the Kangaroo got some air time.
Currently Reading: Various comic books, not all of them sent by a friend.
