For over forty years, she stood outside the Funhouse at a large amusement park in Dartmouth. Massachusetts, named Lincoln Park. She'd rock forward and backward, always laughing through the magic of a phonograph player that played the same scratchy record over and over. The rides stopped in the 1980's, and "Laughing Sal" found herself dusty, rusty, and life-less.
I found the frame and mechanism in a warehouse in New Bedford, and put it on my "to-do" list to bring her back. Well, she didn't come back as a woman, but...
Some people believe that after death we come back as another being. Next week she makes her first public appearance as a cow, at the Westport Fair.
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:07 pm
by ScottyD'sdad
Better looking, than her builder! Ed
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 7:40 pm
by tst
Bob, I am worried about you more than usual Tim
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:31 pm
by Rudi
Yup, you are beginning to worry your friends I think...
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:25 pm
by Dale Finch
San Francisco has a Laughing Sal...really annoying laugh after a while, though. So what will the cow say?!
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:38 pm
by Barnyard
Bob, I had wondered why you have been away from the forum for awhile. This explains everything, it is so...ummm...let's see...what is a good word here? Oh yeah...You...it is so you to do something like this.
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:59 pm
by Bob Perry
Dale Finch wrote: So what will the cow say?!
I guess we'll find out next week when I make a video at the fair !
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:07 pm
by Bob Perry
Barnyard wrote:Bob, I had wondered why you have been away from the forum for awhile. This explains everything, it is so...ummm...let's see...what is a good word here? Oh yeah...You...it is so you to do something like this.
I know that's the Sal from San Francisco that lives on, on the Internet, but the one we had didn't look like that. From my memory, and from the framework, ours was, let's see, we have to be PC, we'll say "not that thin".
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:17 pm
by Dale Finch
I think they have re-recorded the laugh track, because it doesn't sounds as harsh and obnoxious as I remember!!
BTW, if anyone is ever in San Francisco, try to visit that little museum. They have spectacular mechanical machines there. Mostly large music boxes and such, with so many instruments...fantastic for the mechanically inclined!!! I loved to watch all the mechanisms! Talk about "Rube Goldberg" heaven!! http://www.museemecaniquesf.com/photos.php http://www.museemecaniquesf.com/story.php
Re: She's coming back to life !!!
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:50 pm
by Bob Perry
Re: Coming back to life !!! Video added
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:05 pm
by Barnyard
That is way too cool! By the way, I noticed you got a new hat to wear in your avatar.
Re: Coming back to life !!! Video added
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 4:15 am
by Bob Perry
Barnyard wrote: I noticed you got a new hat to wear in your avatar.
Yep same ol' face, new hat !
Re: Coming back to life !!! Video added
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:21 am
by Rudi
Copy cat
Re: Coming back to life !!! Video added
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:27 pm
by ScottyD'sdad
Bob Perry wrote:
Barnyard wrote: I noticed you got a new hat to wear in your avatar.
Yep same ol' face, new hat !
I like the improvement. Hard to believe a hat can make such a difference! Ed
Re: Coming back to life !!! Video added
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:16 pm
by Bob Perry
ScottyD'sdad wrote: I like the improvement. Hard to believe a hat can make such a difference! Ed
You're right Ed, but I didn't expect you to buy a hat like that !
