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Doing a bunch of Gilroy Gardens pictures today, since Sunday and all. But first let me plug my humor blog's Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 7: Junior's Birthday Round-Up, a cartoon that sure seems like it exists although in another four hours I won't remember a thing about it. Now back to early July, still, with pictures:
Ah, here we are passing one of the 1950s cars on the road and ... huh. I guess they can't all be carrying passengers.
Farmhouse that's another of the points in common since I guess they mostly look similar, 1920s or 1950s. I also see that metal rail leading up to the porch and don't know its purpose. Would be wild if once upon a time you motored through a house, wouldn't it?
More of the farmhouse. I guess the rail there has to be some soil-retention thing but it's still a bit mysterious.
Martinelli's Apple Juice is from a company founded, like the billboard says, in 1868 and still headquartered in Santa Cruz county. Still family-owned, too.
This looks like a 1920s Chevrolet ad but I don't know if it's taken from an actual billboard (or more likely, magazine) or is a pastiche meant to evoke the look.
And now the big tunnel leading into ToonTown! Can't wait!
Just before getting back to the station we go past this building, made to suggest a gas station. I don't know if this is a working building or entirely a prop.
And now the ride's done. Hanging around here with a view of the Oil Well Circus Tree. You can also see a bear statue behind that.
Getting around to other attractions now. Ferris wheel on the left and the Monarch Garden name promises butterflies, but we didn't see any.
How's this for a queue, though? Plenty of room to feel like you're the only people in the world here.
More of the very twisty path to enjoy.
Oh, someone's left their box of Fancy Ramen up in the trees where the bears won't get at it.
Trivia: In May 1866 Austria offered to cede Venetia (the province containing Venice, and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire since 1815) to the new Kingdom of Italy, but not directly: it proposed surrendering Venetia to France, in exchange for Italian neutrality in the Austro-Prussian War. The deal fell through, between French indifference and Italian hostility. Source: The Struggle For Mastery In Europe, 1848 - 1918, A J P Taylor.
Currently Reading: Modesty Blaise: The Girl In The Iron Mask, Peter O'Donnell, Enric Badia Romero.
