re: Few remaining tenants at Cortana Mall have two weeks to move out

All the Wild Mouse stories are true. I personally got my head chopped off on it.

“ I went and did a walkthrough of Cortana mall a couple months ago just for old times sake, and it was a really cool experience. Not much left in there, but still lit up, A/C kicking, music playing, just like all humans got abducted and I was the only one left. Hurry and go do this, if you like these sentimental sort of things. Highly recommend.”
—-Just make sure you go in broad daylight

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I always thought someone actually did die on that ride...or is that just a local myth?

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Myth. But boy, was it a good one.

What even made it more spooky and believable was that when the other rides were packed up and moved to Dixie Landing, the Wild Mouse was abandoned in place. Soon, the grass and tall weeds grew through the thing for a good while. Children’s birthday parties were still held under the covered section while the adults gazed over at the old “death trap” and shared all the stories and tall tales. Such good stuff. I miss it....

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Germans

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Yep. Smart folks too. I read a real cool story about the design of the Wild Mouse. It talked about the oversized cars and how the car fit so loosely on the track which gave it that rickety feel. Also how the track just immediately curved and didn’t have any gradual lead-up to it. And there were sections of “trick-track” which were the small vertical humps that made you pop up a little in your seat.
It was quite a scare when you’re about seven years old and with every turn you think for sure you’re flying off the track.

That was my favorite roller coaster.

I'm really going to show my age on this thread, but I remember when the BR State Fair was held at the corner of Evangeline Street and Airline Hwy.

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I've ridden rollercoasters all over the place, and to this day, the Wild Mouse is the scariest one I've ever been on. The first time I rode it, I was crying by the time it was over (I was about 10, maybe 1981?) Rode it a bunch more over the years, all the while I was going to Astroworld and the like, and I was always amazed how the biggest, scariest ride in the place didn't begin to terrify me like the Mouse. With the Wild Mouse, that feeling you were about to go off the edge just ate me a new a-hole.

Found out several years ago that there were Wild Mice all over the country. It was a design that a lot of smaller parks used.

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It was a German coaster design that was very popular at smaller parks of that era.

Little known fact: the Disney Space Mountain coaster is essentially the Wild Mouse (Maus) coaster inside, in the dark.

I remember the State Fair being where the mid city airport once was (not sure if that’s the correct name). The area between Goodwood/Lobdell/E. Airport. Early 70’s maybe.

They should turn it into a parkour and skate park.

Keep the Piccadilly’s though. I enjoyed many a square cod patty and heaping bowl of Jello cubes after buying school clothes or Christmas shopping. It was always a miserable experience, and is now inexplicably a fond memory.