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Nothing all that much demanding of writing up went on today, so, uh, please enjoy a double dose of KennyKon 2023 pictures instead.
Another look at the statue of Young George Washington, based on that time he was nearish here and kind of started a world war.
Next to that statue is the Kangaroo, looking nice and bouncy in its new queue and all.
And near both is the antique carousel. Here's the lion, with a secondary figure of an antelope skin.
What's in front of the lion? A horse that's leaning way in.
And here's the ride in motion. There's that lion again.
The carousel of course has chariots, although here the chariot is two separate pieces, two freestanding benches near one another.
Kiddieland is one of the older areas of the park; it's had some existence since the 1920s, which also makes it one of the oldest kiddieland park areas anywhere. (Rye Playland, I think, inaugurated the idea.)
Beside Kiddieland is the Auto Race, a tracked antique-cars ride dating to the 1930s. The cars run through wooden troughs lined with electrical strips and though they're small, adults like me can squeeze into the ride. Back when it was originally built there were hills in the track, but they were removed because the cars would get stuck.
Performing stage that's a little past Kiddieland, as you walk back towards Thunderbolt. Also guess what we're walking towards here.
Changed our minds! The Golden Nugget is the stand where we get square ice cream, blocks of ice cream served on a double cone and covered in a chocolate shell with sprinkles or peanuts on top. Also a cherry if you're good, or like twenty cherries if you're JTV and unafraid to ask.
Back to Kangaroo. I like the silhouette kangaroo on the side of the facade there. Also I guess you can get line-cutting passes for the ride, but I mean, why?
I mean, is this really a line you need to jump to the front of? Be honest.
Trivia: In 1931, Twentieth-Century Fox, owning the United States's largest newsreel company, announced its theaters would not be allowed to show controversial newsreels. Source: The American Newsreel, 1911 - 1967, Raymond Fielding. This as part of a discussion of why the newsreel was never taken seriously as a way of transmitting serious news (The March of Time excepted). Fielding notes that in the late 60s some TV stations adopted a similar policy against showing footage of civil unrest (which is to say, white people attacking Black people until they fought back).
Currently Reading: Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games, Marcus Du Sautoy.
