This year the midway section is adorned with a whopping 4 games. Skeeball, Dart/Ballon booth, kid fishing and bbgun shoot where you shoot out the star in the center of the paper (almost won that once!)
Appears we're missing the old fashioned Merry-Go-Round, the Strawberry-go-round, The Giant Slide and many of the kids favorite ride The Octopus and thats just the ones we've noticed thus far.
For thrill rides we have 4 of those. Scrambler, Tilt-a-Whirl, Tornado and Zipper all made a return.
They added 2 more funhouse *rides* if you can call them that. One is a traditional fun house with all sorts of oddities inside, like a moving tunnel you have to go through. Other is one of those giant jungle gyms things with punching bags, nets and bridges, etc. You know the type :) Last but not least the House of Mirrors made a return.
For other kiddy rides we have a somewhat cool monster-truck ride (looks neat anyways), a kiddy coaster and a kiddy train. Thats it.
Last but not least Eli the 100+ year old ferris wheel is back, always a family favorite I suppose :)
I talked to one of the workers because I was curious if it's a money thing or if they were spread thin and according to her, they schedule everything all at once early on in the year and at that time they decide what goes where and make sure certain items make it back each year (like Eli) so I can only assume that they are just spread too thin and so everyone gets screwed on rides since nobody hardly has anything.
IMHO, its time to get someone else or whoever is in charge of the festival should at least threaten to, so maybe they'll kiss our butts and give us more stuff next year. We might be a small town but we still deserve better than this. Its my experience that whoever cries the loudest, gets the most attention. Seen it a hundred times or more.
For your enjoyment, some plattsmouth photos from the 1930's - Ran across them looking for karnival photos :) All courtesy of: http://www.knchautauqua.org/
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American Legion Junior Drum Corps performs at 1936 Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival. |
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| Burlington Railroad Shops |
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| Dedication of Highway 34 bridge over the Missouri River, May 16, 1930. |
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| A snowy Main Street in the 1930s. |
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| Nebraska Masonic Home in the 1930s. |
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| Main Street in Plattsmouth, 1940s. |
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| Riley Hotel, Sixth and Main streets, in 1910. |
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| Flood at the end of Main Street, 1930. |
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| Water fowl enjoying the Main Street flood waters, 1930. |
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| Fourth and Main Street, looking west, 1930. |
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| Sixth and Main streets, looking east, 1930. |
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| Cass County Courthouse, 1930s. Structure was built in 1892. |
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| Floods were common in the 1930s. |
Saved the best for last.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Plattsmouth on October 10, 1936. Coming from Iowa, he was greeted by some 5,000 people on his way to Lincoln to see the State Capitol, then on to Omaha for a Democratic rally. |
Source: http://www.knchautauqua.org/Community/iconic_images_plattsmouth.html
