I'll get my head enough above water to report on holiday activities shortly. In the meanwhile, please enjoy the day at Kentucky Kingdom which I might finish off before the New Year comes:
Air traffic control timed the takeoff all wrong. If they'd gone a few seconds later I would have had a picture of the plane taking off while the roller coaster was on the lift hill. (I do have one from a few seconds later, with the roller coaster, but the plane had cleared the shot by then.)
Bird here, agreeing with my protest about the aircraft timing that last picture.
Here's a view of the Tin Lizzies track, with the Giant Wheel in background.
The Tin Lizzies ride has this imitation market with signs that don't really sell the old-timey air that the gas pump wants to.
Don't know if it's a real vintage Gulf gas pump or a replica. I feel like a replica wouldn't bother with the 'New No-NOX' sign, but what do I know?
Trying for a picture of the stuff in the 'store' windows. It's almost aggressively unconvincing as a gas station shop. Note that people have taken all the ones there were to take from that bin.
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bunnyhugger usually does the driving for one of these on our amusement park trips.
Small herd of Tim Lizzies out of service at the moment.
And here's the sign explaining the Tin Lizzies ride that reads oddly like someone's reminiscences: ``As we stepped into the Stutz Bearcat it was as if we stepped into a time warp, taking us back 70 years or so. All of a sudden we were in the country, just as it was way back when. We passed some cows razing quietly near freshly baled hay. There were beautiful wild flowers we stopped to admire. Atop a hill we saw an old pick-up imbedded in the land. Must have been quite a storm. Then we saw some trellises of wisteria. Why don't ours look like that? And maybe they're right. Maybe I should start using Burma Shave.'' The Stutz Bearcats were not Tin Lizzies.
The Musical Carousel, populated by ridable tubas. It used to be Bugs Bunny's Big Band Carousel but I don't know whether the seats were changed any for the re-theming.
Here's their Breakdance, a fun spinny ride with seats that will pitch forward. It doesn't run as wild as a carnival or boardwalk ride of this type would, but the spirit is there.
View from the pedestrian bridge over the road that bisects the park. Note in the distance there Abbey Road cosplayers taking the surface-level crossing.
Trivia: Palladium was named for the asteroid Pallas, discovered in March 1802, around the time that William Hyde Wollaston and Smithson Tennant isolated the element. Source: Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements, John Emsley. Apparently Wollaston was considering ``ceresium''.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 52: There's a Hole in the Bottom!!, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
