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Dec. 22nd, 2008 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashThis is a long shot, here.
Does anyone have any photos of the "Wild Maus" rollercoaster that was in Pontchartrain Beach? We are thinking of using it in the climax of this cartoon I'm working on, as the persistent rumors that "yeah, man, it's always closed for repairs these days 'cause some kid went flying off it and broke his skull" fit all too well with the morbid tone of the song.
Photos of the Beach are rarer than I'd imagine online, despite its place in the hearts of anyone who grew up in New Orleans before it was torn down in the eighties. I just keep finding the same ten photos from the sixties via Google. I vaguely remember it had a dense, boxy shape and some weird graphics but the Internet is failing me.
Anyone got some faded photos kicking around in a shoebox or album? Let me know!
Does anyone have any photos of the "Wild Maus" rollercoaster that was in Pontchartrain Beach? We are thinking of using it in the climax of this cartoon I'm working on, as the persistent rumors that "yeah, man, it's always closed for repairs these days 'cause some kid went flying off it and broke his skull" fit all too well with the morbid tone of the song.
Photos of the Beach are rarer than I'd imagine online, despite its place in the hearts of anyone who grew up in New Orleans before it was torn down in the eighties. I just keep finding the same ten photos from the sixties via Google. I vaguely remember it had a dense, boxy shape and some weird graphics but the Internet is failing me.
Anyone got some faded photos kicking around in a shoebox or album? Let me know!
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Date: 2008-12-24 03:17 am (UTC)You can see the Maus in the left of this photo by John DeMajo, including the logo and a very spiffy light-up cat perched over the entrance. The full page I got it on is here. One or two of the photos on the page are credited to the New Orleans Public Library; I'm not sure on the Katrina damage as I wasn't following news or much of anything at the time it happened, but if it's still around or they saved some/enough of their resources, they might have something.
Also, for the layout - layout number 2 is the layout for the Wild Maus ride at Palisades, which was supposed to be an exact replica of the Pontchartrain ride.
Additionally, you may be able to glean more information from this page than I could - it also includes a piece on the company that built/imported the Wild Maus at Pontchartrain as well as a few others, and lists the other parks that have/had the same model as Pontchartrain.
Sorry I can't be more helpful @.@ that's just a couple minutes of digging, there...