Monday was the day to return home, and we could enjoy sleeping in a bit since check-out was a luxuriously late noon. This is not to say we had everything out of the room at 11:59 am, but we were tolerably close. There were still a lot of people bringing stuff out of their rooms as we checked out; it wasn't like the old days where we'd see Punk Cat and nobody else. (Also we never see Punk Cat anymore; hope they're doing all right.)
We've sometimes done specific things on the Monday after Anthrohio. Letterboxing (where we saw a wild rabbit flop and realized why they do it), or going to the Olentangy Caverns, one time even the Columbus Zoo for the segment that used to be an amusement park. We'd talked about maybe doing the Zoo again, since the roller coaster had reached an anniversary year and it's been like a decade or so. And one time we took the long diversion to Cedar Point to get some amusement park time in; would you believe we got all the way into June without any amusement parks this year?
But when it came to making the decision, you know, we decided we didn't feel like doing much of anything. The zoo we expected would be packed --- it was sunny and not too hot --- and it's a bit pricey to go in for only a couple hours and not even see most of the animals. And other stuff didn't seem that urgent and we didn't bring our letterboxing gear anyway. In the end it felt more appealing to get home instead.
So, we went to a Skyline Chili for vegetarian five-ways --- first time we've been there in ages --- and headed north, making more stops than we did on the way down. Since we had the time we stopped at ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunny_hugger's parents, to give their dog the extra-long walk she'd been denied Thursday, and to tell something of what all we had done, and finally to collect our rabbit and the deer mice. With that, it was but the work of an hour to drive home and, neatly, we reached the end of our backlog of Greatest Generation episodes just as we were pulling in to town. It's rare we're caught up like that.
Tuesday, I could return to work, and bunny_hugger could return to summer vacation, apart from the pinball stuff.
Pinball stuff will wait. Now, some pictures of the Merry-Go-Round Museum's roommate, the Cedar Point history museum.
They have so much Cedar Point ephemera, and it's not stuff that used to be in the Town Hall Museum. Here, for example, cans for discount admission from back in the sad days of Cedar Point being a Pepsi park.
Here's a 1907 letter by that G A Bockling sending a railroad line the Annual for that year. There's also what seems like a budget broken down by department, which makes it look like they were spending a lot on cigars in the day.
A century-plus old season pass, and a book of pictures of the park.
A life jacket from the days that a ferry was the only way to get to the park.
Back in the 90s Cedar Point was all ready to name a roller coaster Banshee, and then someone looked up what a Banshee was and they panicked and renamed it Mantis. So there's a little display of the not-used Banshee stuff. (Kings Island, owned by the same people, named a roller coaster Banshee, but that was literally over twelve years later and in the southern part of Ohio, not the northwest.)
Here's a copy of the memo ordering all Banshee-themed merchandise destroyed. If you zoom in you'll see, I'm not joking about ``someone looked up what a Banshee was and they panicked''.
Trivia: 44 percent of the 12,889 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration members in December 1946 were women. Source: The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War, Ben Shephard.
Currently Reading: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, Roland Allen.
