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re: Did you ride the gondola over the Miss River at the 1984 World’s Fair?
Posted on 11/21/18 at 2:46 pm to Balloon Huffer
Posted on 11/21/18 at 2:46 pm to Balloon Huffer
quote:
Not to be a dick. But your memory is not real. It is something created by your knowledge of the event, and the pictures confirming it.
For example, my grandfather died when I was almost 4. Yet, I can remember sitting in his lap. However, my memory is basically just a picture of him sitting in the chair, that has somehow become ingrained in my brain as my memory.
Not to be a dick? Dude, that's exactly what you are doing. You didn't say his memory MAY NOT be real, you said his memory is not real.
Just because your memory from when you were 3 years old is hazy and you feel the memory of your grandpa is "faked" doesn't mean EVERYONE else has the same crappy memory.
I have always had a ridiculous memory and have distinct memories going back to when I was 2 years old, not of things with photos that I saw later, but of things that happened without photo sessions-- songs on the radio that scared me, things people said to me or my parents, leaving before dawn to pick up my uncle from the airport when he came back from Vietnam; the trick my parents and grandparents played on me on Christmas Eve when we drove around the neighborhood to try and find Santa Claus and couldn't, but when we got back to the house he had come by "while we were gone".
All of which has been confirmed by older relatives and others who were there, often with "oh, yeah, I forgot about that".
Posted on 11/21/18 at 2:46 pm to RidiculousHype
I sure did. Rode it before I was born and after. I bet not too many people can claim that. Hahahaha
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:17 pm to RidiculousHype
CSB
My grandma randomly saw one of the gondola cars at a yard sale and bought it. It’s sitting under her house (house is on 12 foot pilings). I’ve hotboxed the shite out of that thing as a teenager.
My grandma randomly saw one of the gondola cars at a yard sale and bought it. It’s sitting under her house (house is on 12 foot pilings). I’ve hotboxed the shite out of that thing as a teenager.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:37 pm to BRich
As usual, the average intellect of the OT is showing.
Do some research morons.
Look it up.
I am not saying it is impossible to have a vague memory from the age of 4. This guy is saying he has all of these vivid images still ingrained in his brain.
Numerous studies PROVE that you can be tricked in to creating memories, and then believing these memories happened. I literally asked you fricks to do some research, but every one of you just chimed in, frothing at the mouth, with your own chemically created memories. Hilarious or sad? Both perhaps?
Just keep spouting off at the mouth, this is the OT after all. Every time I try to interject any information above a remedial high school level, this is the typical response.
The OT, where I get to feel good about myself for associating with the poors and the morons.
You see, I am not an elitist, look at the dregs I am having arguments with!
Do some research morons.
Look it up.
I am not saying it is impossible to have a vague memory from the age of 4. This guy is saying he has all of these vivid images still ingrained in his brain.
Numerous studies PROVE that you can be tricked in to creating memories, and then believing these memories happened. I literally asked you fricks to do some research, but every one of you just chimed in, frothing at the mouth, with your own chemically created memories. Hilarious or sad? Both perhaps?
Just keep spouting off at the mouth, this is the OT after all. Every time I try to interject any information above a remedial high school level, this is the typical response.
The OT, where I get to feel good about myself for associating with the poors and the morons.
You see, I am not an elitist, look at the dregs I am having arguments with!
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:39 pm to RidiculousHype
Rode it many times, I worked at the fair
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:43 pm to RidiculousHype
All I would be able to think about is that cable snapping and me falling into that river in an enclosed capsule.
Nope
Nope
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:44 pm to Balloon Huffer
quote:
I literally asked you fricks to do some research,
Posted on 11/21/18 at 3:59 pm to RidiculousHype
The gondola was awesome... we rode it many times. One time, I did get sick from eating too many oysters and threw up all over the steps leading up the entrance.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 4:05 pm to cgrand
quote:Foster's "Oil Cans" ! I worked part time at a food booth and spent many a night on the roof of the convention center watching the fireworks in a haze of smoke!!!
I had a season pass to the fair, rode that thing a bunch.
the fair was awesome, especially the bars at night (Sheila’s, jed’s
Eta - I still have my annual WF pass somewhere in a box with all my 70's and 80's concert tickets
This post was edited on 11/21/18 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:00 pm to RidiculousHype
Yes, but I had forgotten riding it until your post. I mostly remember the water park area.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:01 pm to Crow Pie
I rode them as a young boy. And then Old man Mr. Curtis bought two of them and had them on the playground at John Curtis Elementary Campus. Not sure what happened to them now though.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:15 pm to Balloon Huffer
quote:
I was 4 but remember it vividly. Have a bunch of pictures from that day.
Not to be a dick. But your memory is not real. It is something created by your knowledge of the event, and the pictures confirming it.
Well I was 4, and I remember riding the gondola. It was not exactly an everyday event. My memory is real. My sister was very scared bc my dad was fat and she thought we’d fall. I was a little worried too but tried to be brave.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:15 pm to coopsdad
Rode it with a couple of buddies. When we got across the river had a few beers. We noticed a thunder storm brewing and jumped on for the ride back. Winds starting picking as we were over the river and that thing started swinging. That is the last time I get on a gondola.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:18 pm to Balloon Huffer
quote:
Numerous studies PROVE that you can be tricked in to creating memories, and then believing these memories happened.
Yes this is certainly true but that doesn’t mean every old memory is fake.
I also remember a giant heart exhibit at the worlds fair. I was 4. A few years ago I did a little googling and found a world’s fair brochure and sure enough, there was the giant heart just like I remembered.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:20 pm to Spankum
Season pass and never went.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:51 pm to Crow Pie
quote:
Foster's "Oil Cans" !
I think I read somewhere that the wooden kangaroo is still on display somewhere in New Orleans...i would sure like to see it again
Posted on 11/21/18 at 5:53 pm to RidiculousHype
Yeah I rode it. Was pretty cool as a kid from what I remember
Posted on 11/21/18 at 6:20 pm to RidiculousHype
Yup and got pictures man.
Rode it a few times it was cool.
I remember coming back from California for a two week vacation to visit the fair.
Dad and I also went to see Willie Nelson.
I can still remember him singing whiskey river take my mind.
Rode it a few times it was cool.
I remember coming back from California for a two week vacation to visit the fair.
Dad and I also went to see Willie Nelson.
I can still remember him singing whiskey river take my mind.
This post was edited on 11/21/18 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 11/21/18 at 6:43 pm to RidiculousHype
I rode it with my then 12 year old daughter. She still talks about it as a great memory from her childhood so I’m glad we did/survived it !
It was especially cool because there was a large ship passing under it on one of our trips.
Kinda wished I would have bought one of the cars when they went up for sale.
It was especially cool because there was a large ship passing under it on one of our trips.
Kinda wished I would have bought one of the cars when they went up for sale.
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