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bunnyhugger, so after I tell you all about What’s Going On In Gasoline Alley? Since when does Gasoline Alley have EV chargers? November 2025 – January 2026 let's enjoy a bunch of Kennywood pictures. How's that sound?
The Turtle ride, here at the far end of its short and debatably powered-roller-coaster track. Thunderbolt is the wooden roller coaster on the right, The Phantom's Revenge the steel purple coaster on the left.
And here we're in line for the Noah's Ark, which of course starts by walking into a whale's mouth.
Inside the whale's mouth are, of course, boxes of supplies needed for the voyage of forty days and forty nights, such as chickens and skunks.
Also wine and carrots, so you know the cruise will go well. Anyway we somehow walked through the ark wrong and came out way too early, and had to go around again, which I didn't photograph worth showing.
And hey, what do you know but we ran into Kenny Kangaroo! Again! This was starting to get suspicious.
Over here's an arch of Steel Curtain, their new and occasionally running Steelers-themed roller coaster. It wasn't running.
But I got back to the statue of George Washington leading a charge against the Kangaroo.
Phantom's Revenge turns out to have added a lane-cutting side queue and so we all get held up way at the back, in what used to be hilariously needless overflow queues a couple miles away from the station.
You see all that space? That's just empty and the only reason we're not there is so line-cutters can jump ahead of us; off to the left of this picture is the last spot where they could jump in.
Walking up to the queue, which winds a hilariously long and spindly path, like you get in Roller Coaster Tycoon when you forgot to provide space for the queue, does give this nice view looking down on the entrance to Lost Kennywood.
And here's the spot to shoot your hair scrunchie out on the roof of no particular building.
For the sake of art, though, here's a picture of the silhouette of us walking up to the track, like a scene from Metropolis Only Happy. I know which shadow is me; can you spot it?
Trivia: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover declined the United States's invitation to showcase something at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (the show that would spawn the name Art Deco), saying the country did not have anything modern to showcase. He did send a commission to Paris to review it and in the Herbert Hoover report urged ``a parallel effort of our own [ to the styles on display ] upon lines calculated to appeal to the American consumer''. Source: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, Daniel Okrent.
Currently Reading: Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense, Elliott ``Ttwo Tt's'' Kalan.
