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THE FERRIS WHEEL–NOT THE FERRIS TOWER!

The Ferris wheel was the invention of a man named, well, George Washington Ferris. Come on, what did you think his name was going to be. Gustave Eiffel? It was designed for the 1893 Chicago Worlds Exposition, the first such exposition since the one in Paris five years earlier which

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January 9, 2026 No Comments

THE PACIFIC OCEAN PARK OF IT ALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVy-7IVPFSYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyndUDxjqLY Yesterday’s post contained some poignant footage of the long-gone Santa Monica Amusement Park ‘Pacific Ocean Park’. The footage appeared to have been shot at the end of the parks short life–it opened in 1959 and closed a scant nine years later–with views of shuttered and abandoned concessions, rides and

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December 15, 2022 No Comments

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