Well it took a while to find it, but here's my response to The Stars for a Shilling - me at Southport fair in the mid sixties, grudgingly riding a 'super-thunder-sting-car' on a carousel time ride with hydraulic arms. Having been terrified by the Caterpillar ride some years earlier, when a racing coaster unexpectedly folded over a green canvas cover across the cars to make a caterpillar shape, leaving me howling in terror in the dark, I was never keen on rides after that.
Still, this was a nice green Nuclear Freighter shaped ship, so I gritted my teeth and thoughtof Spacex!
fab find that Bill! I can never find anything when I want it! I have a very similar photo somewhere of a similar ride I think. Could be Blackpool. As for the caterpillar you mentioned, that brought memories flooding back! Yes! the green canvas folding over! Creepy! I'd forgotten that!
ReplyDeleteThe stuff Spacemen are made of. What a cool pic of the past, Bill
ReplyDeleteSo you had the Rug pulled over your eyes in your eatly years, WOW Regards Ken
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