kiddie rides

exactly lol

Actually, I used to work for a carnival and have all my teeth... Doing that with your rides is pretty common practice, just a bit of FYI to those who really like going to county fairs, carnivals and other places with rides. :D

I worked one once when I was a kid, I knew the sears family from FLA, they owned "the zipper"

I was with Mac's Amusements for several years. Bunch of 40 milers came along and beat the hell out of me for trying to tell them how to put a ride together because they thought they knew better. lol! I used to run the "Scat", the "Zipper", the Ferris wheel, the Tilt-a-whirrle and of course, the bumper cars... Not at the same time mind you, but I was skilled in assembling, sloughing and running all of those rides... pretty much when you put ONE together, you see how the other was are put together as well. :D