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On my humor blog this week, Popeye and Olive got married and had a son; Gil Thorp and Mimi Thorp got a divorce and kept their kids around; and I realized something odd while talking about Star Trek: The Next Generation. Want to see? Look here:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 25
- Without Denying That Society Still Has Problems
- Statistics Saturday: Some Trademark-Law-Safe Euphemisms For The Super Bowl
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 1: Attack of the Sea Hag
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 1: Happy Anniversary
- What’s Going On In Gil Thorp? Are Gil and Mimi Thorp Divorced? November 2023 – February 2024
- You May Find This Hard to Believe
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 26
And now ... I finish our exclusive ride time at KennyKon! And I apologize the pictures get blurry but it's either share merely okay-ish night photos or not share anything at all, and what am I going to do, have standards for the pictures I share? Look on:
Walking out of The Phantom's Revenge after the last ride we took on it.
As will happen, the accessible entrance is up the exit path. Also somehow there's several lanes of exit. You wouldn't think they'd need an express and a local.
All the buildings in Lost Kennywood are made to resemble buildings from various early-20th-century amusement parks. The Pizza Pavilion here is based on the carousel building for Pittsburg's West View Park (1906 - 1977).
Better view of that mysterious tunnel next to the Phantom's Revenge exit.
The souvenirs stand (and also a fries place, with the same menu as the Potato Patch but shorter lines) is based on the entrance to Wonderland Park at Revere Beach, Massachusetts (1906 - 1910).
Lost Kennywood's pool, which I got good photos of at night in previous visits. It's built roughly where Kennywood used to have a giant swimming pool (closed in the early 70s).
Lockers. They took out the Bayern Kurve --- selling it to California's Great America, which operates the last public one in North America --- and put in lockers. But the twinkling green and red lights by night are kind of hypnotic and I hope to get a decent photo of this next visit.
Gran Prix, long since put to bed for the night.
Kandy Kaleidoscope; remember when we saw this as one of the first things in the park when it opened?
And here we reach the great heart of Kennywood wishing us goodnight. As a result of the exclusive ride time, we were there after the light had gone off, so we only have it illuminated by the clouds and the lights still on the Kandy Kaleidoscope.
The tunnel to Kennywood, only harder to see.
And a shot that was supposed to be of the escalator which took the place of the ski lift up to the far upper reaches of Kennywood's parking lots. A last look at the night. Sorry my camera needed new glasses. (Its focus has been having issues, and sometimes the zoom just decides to go the other way.)
Trivia: In 1963 the Soviet Union had to buy foreign grain, paid for with 372 tons of gold, over a third of the country's gold reserve. Source: An Edible History of Humanity, Tom Standage.
Currently Reading: Interesting Stories for Curious People: A Collection of Fascinating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture, and Just About Anything Else You Can Think Of, Bill O'Neill.
