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Well, I'm caught up with the interesting stuff going on so ... uh ... enjoy the end of our Sunday night at Dollywood.
Say, this looks like a good place to get something to eat!
There's a bunch of firefighting-themed stuff at Dollywood so I assume this Fire Danger level sign is legitimate.
Station for the FireChaser Express, one of multiple fire-fighter-themed roller coasters. It's got a secret!
And here's the FireChaser Express station as seen from below, near the end of the night.
This is approaching Wild Eagle, the last roller coaster we rode for the night, and the 8th of the 10 at the park we rode that short day(!). The big red building in the background is the FireChaser Express station.
Wild Eagle's gift shop had these extremely tempting eagle wing props, but we passed.
After Wild Eagle --- a wing coaster, so nice wordplay there --- we had closed out the night and just had to walk back out. Here's a last look at some of Wild Eagle's track (left) and FireChaser Express (right).
The tram station; we weren't up to walking all the way uphill back to our car even though we were just at the end of the first parking lot.
And here we pass another tram coming back the other way. The process reminded me how Great Adventure used to have parking lot trams and I don't know if they still do.
Trivia: In 1906, Louisville, Kentucky, had only two vaudeville theaters, the Buckingham and the Hopkins. By 1921, when the city had grown to 234,891 people, there were two vaudeville theaters, B F Keith's Mary Anderson and B F Keith's National. Source: The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, Anthony Slide.
Currently Reading: To Touch The Face Of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957 - 1975, Kendrick Oliver.
