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[ChasSmith]

I had thought the architectural touches on that building would provide the clue, but I don't think anything positive was ever identified.

[elmore3003]

Just for kicks ..... here's the photo that had confounded my dad. He was guessing the year, as you can see, but he couldn't say what the background told him about the location. One guess was the Cedar Point amusement park up on Lake Erie, but it could just as easily have been something like the Columbus or Cincinnati zoos, or maybe even the Coney Island amusement park on the Ohio River...if it existed back then, but I think it did.

Coney Island was always a place I wanted to go to since I was a little kid, but my parents had no interest, I guess their attitude was, we had LeSourdsville Lake, which I loved. Then King's Island took a lot of the Coney Island trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeSourdsville_Lake_Amusement_Park

[singdaw]

Anyone know a knitter or crocheter who has oodles of time on their hands?

[Jane]

Nice photo DR Chas.

[ChasSmith]

Just for kicks ..... here's the photo that had confounded my dad. He was guessing the year, as you can see, but he couldn't say what the background told him about the location. One guess was the Cedar Point amusement park up on Lake Erie, but it could just as easily have been something like the Columbus or Cincinnati zoos, or maybe even the Coney Island amusement park on the Ohio River...if it existed back then, but I think it did.

Coney Island was always a place I wanted to go to since I was a little kid, but my parents had no interest, I guess their attitude was, we had LeSourdsville Lake, which I loved. Then King's Island took a lot of the Coney Island trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeSourdsville_Lake_Amusement_Park

That's one I never knew about, and it looks wonderful. We had one a little east of Columbus, at Buckeye Lake, that I vaguely remember.

Kings Island was pretty new when I began driving down to Cincinnati from Cleveland (my folks moved there from Florida in December 1969), and I've passed it on I-71 countless times between then and now. But I've never been to it. My family certainly had, especially my sister's kids and grandkids.

Coney Island is still down there by the river, mostly in name only. I think it's more a recreational site these days. But King's Island did take some of the rides and all, and the last I heard, they still had a Coney Island section with those still working. That, at least, is the way to do it if you must be a giant that causes good things to close.

[John G.]

Kenneth Branagh is going to direct and star in King Lear.

[John G.]

I went to Coney Island once. I went to Kings Island once. I enjoyed both.

[ChasSmith]

I see they still have a section called Coney Island Mall, but I don't know how much of the original stuff is still there.

And I was wrong about when Kings Island opened. It wasn't till spring of 1972. But I probably saw it, or at least their Eiffel Tower, under construction, on those earlier drives, and I remember there was one of Voice of America's huge antenna farms located just to the south of it.

[ChasSmith]

TOD

As someone who never married and never had kids or who ever had to be responsible for kids, I have lived my moviegoing life in blissful ignorance of the ratings system.

The only time it would have affected me was when I was still living in Cleveland before turning 21, and the li'l rite of passage I gave myself on that occasion was going to an "adult" film. I hate to even admit what it was, but I THINK the one I went to - and it was really horrible to me, even then - was one of the I AM CURIOUS films (Yellow or Blue, who the hell knows) that was playing in some theater in East Cleveland. Its awfulness did me the favor of automatically wiping itself out of my memory to save me the trouble of doing it.

Anyhoo, I wouldn't know if any films I've seen pushed any boundaries, since I never took it upon myself to be aware of it. At any rate, nothing in particular comes to mind.

[George]

Apparently, there's a term:  The Dunning-Kruger Effect:

Where the biggest irony is that if it really describes you, you'll never know.

[George]

[George]

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[George]

I dreamt I had escaped from kidnappers, clothed only in a yellow towel, and was trying to persuade some D&D players to escort me home . They were afraid to get involved so I scoffed at them being afraid to go in a real quest and to save a maiden in distress. Also for some reason I was only about 4’10” and they were all around 7 foot tall and teenage boys.

Oh, my!

[George]

[George]

You can bet that a dress rehearsal that requires you to wear to most layers of clothing will take place on the hottest day of the summer so far.....that was yesterday.

Yikes!  I hate it when that happens!

[George]

Just for kicks ..... here's the photo that had confounded my dad. He was guessing the year, as you can see, but he couldn't say what the background told him about the location. One guess was the Cedar Point amusement park up on Lake Erie, but it could just as easily have been something like the Columbus or Cincinnati zoos, or maybe even the Coney Island amusement park on the Ohio River...if it existed back then, but I think it did.

Nice picture, ChasSmith.

[John G.]

I saw Bertolucci’s 1900 before I turned 17. It was a real eye opener. Full frontal nudity and violence, both standard and grotesque. I can remember Donald Sutherland running with a pitchfork stuck in his neck, another in a thigh. And it went on for four hours.

[George]

Anyone know a knitter or crocheter who has oodles of time on their hands?

Oh, my goodness!  That's amazing!!

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep.

[bk]

Have been on the phone ever since arising - with PayPal, with Venmo, with eBay, trying to figure out stuff that's become confusing - very nice people were very helpful.

[bk]

Which is more than I can say about the text that was waiting for me.

[bk]

Get me off this damn page.

[bk]

Remember I mentioned the person who was going to leave Facebook but instead has decided to do a blog/diary on Facebook instead - and I mentioned they'd been to this here site. So, today they do their first entry - "Last night I watched" and just like here we get a rundown of the movies - and I do mean just like here. This person is trying very hard to do our kind of humor but they're not us so it's not funny. And just before they finish the thing, what word suddenly appears as if by magic? "Gaslighting." Coincidence or homage, you tell me.

[bk]

Unavailable online for eight years, the 2011/2012 web series Outside the Box returns.  In the series premiere, Beth Leavel gets a call from Stephen Findle, the artistic director of the Outside the Box Theater Company. They're doing a new musical and they want Beth Level to star. The new musical? Tune in, it's a good one. Also starring Melody Hollis, Barry Pearl, Sandy Rosenberg, and Brandon Uranowitz. Written and Directed by Yours Truly. Edited by Marshall Harvey. Choreographed by Adam Cates. Musical Direction by John Boswell. Music and Lyrics by Yours Truly, Outside the Box Theme by Grant Geissman.

Please like our channel (this is VERY important) and watch the other eleven episodes of Outside the Box. If you click on and/or search the channel name (haineshisway), you'll find the other episodes, plus Tonight's the Night, which I posted about yesterday but which the dreaded algorithms are doing their dreaded best to make sure no one actually sees the post. Also, leave a nice comment if you like. Interestingly, even though I put these up yesterday but didn't tell anyone, people have found them anyway. Go know.  https://youtu.be/ugBx0mY07sw

[ChasSmith]

I have the "Tonight's the Night" Blu-ray with all of that on it, which I have happily devoured a couple of times since. But I'll be happy to go through and put the ol' like on each of those if that will help.

[ChasSmith]

Done!

[ChasSmith]

I've loved the OTB episodes since I first saw one years ago, but it's really a treat -- and essential -- finally having them on the Blu-ray.

[Jrand74]

Outside the Box.....subscribed.....didn't see a place to "Like" but I may find it yet.

[Jrand74]

DR CHAS SMITH those are some nifty shades your father is wearing.

[Jrand74]

Here's an article about Indy's Riverside Amusement Park where our parents used to take us at least once every summer.

Built in 1904 it closed up in 1970....our last couple of visits in the late 1960's proved to be a bit scary.....some really weird characters had made the place their own.

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/remembering-indys-amusement-parks-riverside