Posted
12:00am pst, Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Conquering
my fears
This
past weekend. I went to the start of the season at Santa
Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The weather was fabulous and the beach and
boardwalk were packed.
One
of the main attractions: Laffing Sal. Sal is an old coin-operated attraction
from the old playland at the Beach at Ocean Beach. The Boardwalk recently
bought Sal at auction and refurbished
it.
Now
I have no recollection of this, but my dad told me that Sal used to
scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. Playland was gone, but the
arcade still stood in the early 70's and apparently, I was petrified
of Sal.
Who
knows why... the mechanical cackling, the jovial movement of her rusty
joints. She just scared the crap outta me.
©2005
Ron Lim unless noted |
