Our elder mouse Crystal turned two years old today! Notionally, at least. We don't know when she was actually born, but it's the anniversary of taking her home and we were told she was a year old then. So, she's made it a healthy lifetime for a house mouse, and we can hope she has a nice stretch of bonus time.
When I left pictures off we were walking the long way to get to The Phantom's Revenge. And how did that turn out?
Finally, we get to The Phantom's Revenge station. Note the Phantom whose heart you walk through to actually get on the train.
From this spot you get a great view of the Turtle, a decent view of Thunderbolt, and in the distance, a view of Steel Curtain.
Here it's all Phantom's Revent and Thunderbolt, though.
We had some great light for pictures that day. Here's the back end of the roller coaster station.
And looking out from the exit queue on the Black Widow, a Giant Discovery pendulum ride that I've been on, without ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger.
Huh, wonder what ride this sign is for.
Now over near the kiddieland is still the Snack-A-Saurus snack stand proudly using the Jurassic Park typeface. There is a fossil dig attraction nearby so this doesn't come completely from nowhere.
I think they just didn't have the correct sign to explain why the ... Dizzy Dynamo(?) ... ride wasn't open and put up the ``weather is bad'' excuse and were bluffing.
Crazy Trolley's another kiddie ride we watched several cycles for. It swings a lot like a Moby Dick ride, though smaller. We also noted the Kennywood Arrows there are the older style, fitting the trolley styling of the ride and the picture behind of old-timey folks at the park.
And Leo the Lion's a paper-eater trash bin.
The park explains the history of the Kiddieland, along with the mildly surprising news that this is at least the second Kiddieland.
The kiddie Ferris wheel, which they got in 1924 and so goes back to a previous Kiddieland arrangement.
Trivia: In 1966, to meet the processing requirements of Medicare, the Massachusetts Blue Cross/Blue Shield --- which claimed to have the first fully computerized Medicare in the nation --- had to begin renting time on a second IBM 7070 computer, with employees driving a car packed with decks of cards to Southbridge every evening to run overnight and drive back to Boston in the morning. Source: A History of Modern Computing, Paul E Ceruzzi. They had bought a 7070 in 1961.
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