Today while visiting a dear friend, Mrs Esther, I remembered she had told me she was from Norfolk. My home is only a couple of hours from there. Somehow in the deep recesses of my mind a memory came flying up of visiting Ocean View Amusement Park as a very young child. All I remembered was a dark boat ride and a woman in a cage that traumatized me. As soon as I mentioned Ocean View, Mrs Esther mentioned the Laughing Woman. I googled it and found that she was called Laughing Sal. Now I see why I put this out of my mind. Does anyone else remember? Ricky K. Barnes, James Patricia Barnes A few yards East of the Tunnel of Fun was Laff in the Dark, a more conventional dark ride, where patrons would sit behind a safety bar in a high backed, cutaway cylindrical car which moved forward, rotated, stopped, or reversed in a seemingly random fashion as it followed a fast and erratic course through a darkened room filled with a variety of surprising, and brightly lit flash frights, triggered by the position of the car, by which the hapless passengers were forced to confront up close and personal. Drawing attention to this ride was Laffing Sal, another mechanical device in the form of an overweight, and rather homely-looking female who did no more than emit a constant stream of insane laughter, while doubling over again and again to the delight of all
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:52:58 +0000
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