And Your Shoes Get So Hot, You Wish Your Tired Feet Were Fireproof

[austin_dern]

Too busy to write, so here's more Silver Beach pictures.

More of the model train haunted village set up by the carousel. bunnyhugger has that haunted castle dark ride you can see at in the upper row, to the left of the clock.

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The model railroad is set back when Amtrak had a logo that looked like anything, and it also has an out-of-scale giant headless horseman who may or may not be representing University of Michigan.

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And then there's the level that just has Martians.

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On to the important thing: the carousel. Note that you need to have one token to ride ...

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And here we are! Two tokens, one for each of us, minted in ... 2020, when everyone suddenly had a lot of time on their hands.

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bunnyhugger pauses to admire a Robert Addison serigraph she wishes she had. (She's got a different one that she's very happy with, though.)

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We rode the dolphin and the goldfish, because what else would we ride?

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Well, okay, the raptor, but someone had got on it when we took our ride.

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Dragons are a popular motif for chariots because who wouldn't want to sit on a dragon given the option?

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Oh yeah, we missed the chance to ride Ringo the Rooster. Sorry.

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bunnyhugger does her part to reduce the number of pennies in circulation.

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I'd never heard of Fred Dolle before but I've certainly heard of New Jersey. They kind of overachieved on the periods in the abbreviation of 'manufacturer' there. And there's your two-R spelling of carousel, not uncommon in those days. (North Bergen is on the Hudson river, a little north of Weehawken, which may not help you much except that Weehawken sounds liek a place you might have heard of.) Silver Beach's old carousel, now in Kennewick, Washington, was built by Dolle's company.

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Trivia: On their release from North Korea the crew of the USS Pueblo (seized for spying) was greeted in person by the Commander in Chief of the United Nations Command in South Korea, General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, who in 1945 as a Colonel in the Pentagon drawn the zones-of-occupation line at the 38th parallel that had created a North Korea. Source: Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atomic Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers, Simon Winchester.

Currently Reading: Walt Kelly's Pogo and Albert: At the Mercy of the Elephants, Walt Kelly. Editor Mark Burstein.

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[bunnyhugger]

The fish is a clownfish!