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Lacking the time to write up the con, what with the seventh Tuesday in a row of pinball events, let me instead share what's next on my photo roll: our anniversary trip to Indiana Beach! Which we've now made our anniversary event three times, I think giving it the edge on any place.
Here's the bridge to Indiana Beach, the way we always thought was the back end of the park but is maybe the front? We're not sure. You do get a good view of the place from this angle, though.
Directly ahead is the Cornball Express and the Ferris Wheel and somewhere in there the sky lift ride.
Do Not Enter seems like a bad thing to say at the entrance of your park. They probably just mean for whatever was being built or rebuilt behind the construction fence.
And Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain was open! JTK had so much trouble getting to it the season before but here we stop in once and it's ready for us.
Frankenstein tipping his hat and his head to the crowd, one of the animatronics attracting people to the walk-through Frankenstein's Castle.
We did go through the Castle. Most of it was too dark for me to even try taking pictures of stuff. But there's a small balcony outside and I got this view from above of the Sea Dragon, itself doing pretty good business.
Looking from the Sea Dragon over toward the Scrambler, built out over Lake Ideal (actually a river), as well as the boat ride that I think wasn't running. You can also see on the edge of the frame the Paratroopers ride that's also on the river.
Looking straight down gives a great Roller Coaster Tycoon-style view of the people enjoying the ride or waiting for the ride or just sitting.
And now I'll just get arty: view of the Sea Dragon reflected in the window of the balcony door. Inside are all sorts of entertaining horrors of Frankenstein's Castle and outside, a Viking head with eyes looking way off to either side.
One of my few pictures from the inside: Shake, Rattle, and Roll is a horror-monster animatronic band playing in a high-vaulted room that you see from two levels.
And finally we emerge and I notice the signs encouraging one to enter. Well, it's worth entering, at least once a season or so.
The last scene of the castle, and the one you see as you exit, a person having a bad day but not for very long at least.
Trivia: As collector of customs for the Port of New York, Chester Alan Arthur reportedly pocketed $56,120, more than the salary of the President of the United States at the time. Arthur would go on to become the 21st President of the United States. Source: Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, Peter Andreas. When President Hayes demanded Arthur's resignation (as well as those of other patronage appointments) he refused to give it.
Currently Reading: One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability and Succession, Birch Bayh.
