Now I think that we're all set so let's all take a ride
So I'm all caught up! Enjoy then a double dose of pictures. Also don't worry, because I'm going to have fresh stuff to report on starting tomorrow. Meanwhile, please enjoy some Crossroads Village photography.
Continuing the walk to the southeast end of the village. The nutcracker figure pointing is not just a fixture but also a way to guide cars on the path they're supposed to take, those nights that the village is open only for driving through.
Here's just a big old tangle of lights and fixtures.
The giant white-light ornament ball was back for 2023. Here's a picture of it lined up in the middle of one of the outline-light trees, because I thought that would look good.
Turns out that looks less good than this, lined up so it looks as if it were hanging from the end of a branch on an outline-light tree.
First view here of the antique rides section of the park. You can see the deer or reindeer lights on the right side there.
And here's their most noteworthy ride, the C W Parker Carousel. And for once I took the time to try and center the building and I think it shows!
Here's the carousel, dressed as normal for winter operations with the blankets that are a bit Christmas colored and also keep mud and snow off the horses.
The chariot, with its winged dragon intimidated by a snake, I always like. Here for once I take a picture showing the back and its hard-to-see image of the roiling sea.
Here's the ticket booth, and some of the Mickey Mouse baners that they have for decoration.
This red snowflake decoration is the most snow we saw in December.
Crossroads Village runs its carousel faster than anywhere else in Michigan, and as fast as anywhere in Michigan and Ohio, and you really feel it when you take a ride.
Tracking shot of the four-abreast kid-size horses with the chairs behind for the kids' parents to have a less exciting ride.
Trivia: In 1921 the Crosley Manufacturing Company received its radio license and as station 8XAA began transmitting on a four-tube, twenty-watt model. Powel Crosley Jr began programming, mostly by giving his name and telephone number over the air and inviting anyone receiving the signal to call in, and then playing a record, usually ``The Song of India'', by putting the phonograph horn next to the radio microphone. Source: Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation, Rusty McClure with David Stern and Michael A Banks. I don't know that it was this specific recording, but it's plausible that it was this song anyway.
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