Day was full of in-office work and pinball league so please enjoy the moments just before and just after I get my milestone coaster at Six Flags America:
The coaster we'd log as my 299th --- and one ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger had ridden already, under a different name at Chicago's Great America --- was Ragin Cajun, a spinning wild mouse that gave her a head bump she's still got seven months later.
Part of the setting was this ... surely prop ... gator.
And there, somewhere we sure figured was nearer than it actually was, was my target for a 300th coaster, The Wild One, arguably over a century old.
Finally a good view of The Wild One's station, along with the big shield they put up for the debatable centennial. (The coaster has gotten major rebuilds several times since its origins in Massachusetts.)
Do enjoy the signs and the Established 1917 pomp around it.
bunnyhugger takes a moment to admire the entrance.
We took a risk not buying the line-cutter pass but, you know, I think we maybe just got away with it.
The return leg's what you see in the background. I don't know the vintage of the Please Remain Seated sign but it at least has the style of something old.
I'm a little surprised the safety sign background is some abstracted pattern rather than a silhouette of the ride or the course track or something like that.
And here's the exit of the ride, adjacent to a go-cart racetrack. And from this point I've become one of those people who can name 300 distinct roller coasters he's been on.
View of the roller coaster station and a drop tower lined up in a way that tickles my fancy, if nobody else's.
The American Coaster Enthusiasts's plaque commemorating the historic significance of the roller coaster for having survived as long as it had.
Trivia: Avery Brundage, from 1952 to 1972 president of the International Olympic Committee, was on the United States's team for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, taking sixth in the pentathlon and failing to complete the decathlon when he dropped out of the final event, the 1,500-meter run. (Jim Thorpe won both.) Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
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