Pacific Ocean Park

"tommy" <skyway@> wrote in message
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> You remember El Bumpo, right? The sides would expand and
> you'd lean
> around to bump other boats. That was when Eagle's Flight
> had three
> stations. Magic Pagoda, Dragon ride, etc.. I miss it
> all.
>
> /tommy

Yep, I remember El Bumpo well. I used to ride it all the
time when I was a kid. I remember that my boats always
seemed to have lots of water in them.

roller10@ (Robert) wrote in message news:<febae9da.0411100617.7fec95ce@ com>...
> SFStl had an issue with the car release tab, back in the mid-70s. In
> short, on the Von Roll sky rides, there is a tab that sticks up from
> the top of the wheel assembly. This tab makes contact at both ends of
> the ride, just after entering the station, and just before departing,
> to open the cable clamp. This allows the car to roll free of the cable
> in the stations. A damaged piece of metal on one of the towers (don't
> know how that happened) was bent into the way of the release tab. In
> short, it hit the tab on a car, releasing it from the cable, and
> dropping it to the midway.

That can't be right. It's true a tab releases a clamp that grabs onto
the cable, but that clamp ensures that the car does not slide along
the cable. When the clamp is released the car needs to be lifted up
off the cable, as is done in the station. (The cable goes down, and
the car rolls along a track.) If the clamp was inadvertantly released
along the course, the car should not drop from cable, as the weight of
the car alone should have kept it on the cable, though it could
possibly slide. The car has to be lifted up off the cable in order to
be released. Something else had to cause that car to fall. I heard
that it had to do with the tower roller assemblies.

A faulty clamp is what caused a problem at Kings Island when it
started to rain. One car lost its grip on a wet cable, but for reasons
listed above did not fall off. It happened shortly after leaving the
station when the cable is at a steep angle. Another car ran into it
but neither fell. A ride attendant e-stopped the ride, and riders were
stranded for hours in a storm. KI removed the ride the following
season.

BTW what does any of this, even the first post, have to do with the
topic 'Pacific Ocean Park'?

C. Montgomery Burns

"TCS" <thecskier@> wrote in message
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> Are there still park rides where the cabins are pushed by
> hand?

All of the ones made by Von Roll have the cabins pushed
around in the stations by the attendants.

>Doppelmayr has a virtual monopoly on ski lifts nowadays. Especially the
>detachable variety.
>
>

Actually it is Doppelmayr and Leitner-Poma which build all the North American
skilifts. These two companies have gobbled up some of the competition like BM
Lifts, CTEC, Von Roll, and CWA and driven companies like Riblet and Lift
Engineering out of business.

Partek/Borvig still builds FG lifts.



TCS (The Colorado Skier)
Colorado is now open for skiing

>At SFGAd, there was a plaque that attributed the origin of their skyride
>to the New York World's Fair. Some components may have come from that
>fair, but the towers are of the distinct style like those of the
>Freedomland double skyride. The tops of the towers of the Freedomland
>skyride were angled, as you see in the photos of the SFGAd skyride. The
>tops of the towers of the New York World's Fair double skyride were flat.
>
>Steven

Hey Steven, it's funny how interests change. I was at the NY World's Fair but
I don't remember a skyride. I was at Freedomland and probably rode the skyride
- but don't remember it.

There was some kind of skyride at the San Antonio Hemisfair (1968). Do you
have any data or pix on that?


TCS (The Colorado Skier)
Colorado is now open for skiing