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by Kathy Wolfe Beginning with gardens, booths, arcades and fireworks,and progressing to multi-billion dollar theme parks, amusement parks have long been a source of enjoyment and relaxation. This week, Tidbits looks at just a few that have made history over the years.

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• North America’s oldest amusement park is Lake Compounce, located in Bristol, Connecticut. When it opened in 1846, it consisted of a path around the lake, picnic tables, swimming and rowing, and a gazebo for band concerts. A hand-powered revolving swing was its first “ride,” and a bowling alley and billiard hall were added shortly afterward. • The stage at Lake Compounce has hosted such names as Houdini, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. Admission to a 1941 show featuring a young Sinatra performing with the Tommy Dorsey Band could be had for $1.10. Although visitors can now ride a state-

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• As early as 1650, folks in Russia were constructing large ice slides with heavy timbers as a form of entertainment. They developed wooden sleds with iron runners, the forerunner to modern-day roller coasters.

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• The world’s oldest amusement park still operating in its original location is Bakken, situated in the woods north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It opened in 1583 after a running spring was discovered that was believed to have medicinal powers. Soon after, traveling theater troupes and horse shows were added to the park, and in later years, cafes, carousels and a music hall.

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AMUSEMENT PARKS (from page one) of-the-art roller coaster and white water raft trip, the park maintains its charm with a 1927 coaster, a carousel from 1911 and an antique trolley. • The famous Coney Island started out as a beach resort consisting of three amusement parks, racetracks and luxury hotels, and was home to what is considered the first roller coaster in America. The Switchback Gravity Pleasure Railway opened in 1884 at a cost of $1,600. At ten cents per ride, the park took in $600 to $700 per day! Coney Island’s most famous coaster, the 85-foot-high Cyclone, opened in 1927 and was a twisting figure-8 coaster that cost $175,000 to build. The Cyclone was such a thrilling ride that one young man mute since birth regained his voice while riding it. “I feel sick!” were the first words of West Virginia coal miner Emilio Franco back in 1948. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, you can still take a ride on the Cyclone, a one-minute, 50-second thrill. • As Pittsburgh bridge builder George Ferris sat at an engineer’s banquet where the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair was being planned, he made a sketch of a large wheel on a napkin. That sketch was the beginning of a 264-foothigh wheel on a 45-foot axle that was the centerpiece of the Columbian Exposition. Each of its 36 cars contained revolving chairs holding 60 people, giving up to 2,160 people a ride each time. It took 20 minutes to load as

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it stopped for passengers to enter, then offered a nine-minute non-stop ride for the sum of 50 cents. During the time of the Exposition, the ride grossed $726,805. • The Ferris wheel operated there until April of 1894, when it was dismantled and relocated to a park on Chicago’s North Side. After eight years there, it was once again taken apart and the four-million-pound structure was taken by train to St. Louis for the 1904 World’s Fair. Sad to say, in 1906, the wheel was dynamited and sold as scrap iron. Even more unfortunate is the fact that George Ferris died in debt at age 37 of typhoid fever. Walt Disney opened Disneyland, the nation’s first theme park, in 1955, at a cost of $17 million. The 85 acre park had 3.8 million visitors during its first season. It’s estimated that 70 percent of Americans have visited a Disney theme park.

• The only 19th century Ferris wheel remaining in the world, the Reisenrad, is located in Vienna, Austria’s Wurstelprater. That wheel was constructed in 1897. • If you love roller coasters, Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, is the place for you. Located at the edge of Lake Erie, it is the second oldest amusement park in America and boasts 17 coasters (the most in the world), from old-style wooden coasters to hydraulic launch rocket coasters. The Top Thrill Dragster, the secondfastest in the world, climbs to a height of 420 feet and reaches speeds of 120 mph. If this is too much excitement for you, opt for the tamer Giga-Coaster, only 310 ft. tall and traveling a mild 93 mph. • Cedar Point started out with a beer garden, bathhouse and dance floor in 1870. Its first roller coaster, the Switchback Railway, opened in 1892, and thrilled riders with its 10 mph speeds and 25-foot height. There was no chain lift, and cars had to be hauled to the top manually at the end of the ride. The park also featured a water swing and trapeze that soared out and threw riders into Lake Erie. By 1905, an elegant 600-room hotel graced the shoreline. Famed Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne was a young lifeguard on the lake’s beach in 1913.

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HOT DOG! July has been National Hot Dog Month since the U.S. Chamber of Commerce designated it as such in 1957. Let’s take a look at this summertime favorite food. • More than $1.6 billion was spent last year on hot dogs and sausages in U.S. supermarkets. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the average consumption of hot dogs in America is more than 800 per second! That’s a typical summer of about seven billion hot dogs. Residents of Los Angeles eat more hot dogs than any other locale, edging out second-place New York City. • July 4 is a big day for hot dogs. This year, Americans will consume about 150 million hot dogs on that day, which, laid end to end, will stretch the distance from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles five times. • What would the ballpark be without hot dogs? During Major League baseball season, the hot dogs consumed would stretch from Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Stadium to Florida’s Tropicana Field. That’s close to 21.3 million dogs! When baseball fans were polled, 63 percent said that hot dogs were the number one concession they couldn’t do without. Peanuts were a distant second at 18 percent. Hot dog vendors at the parks will haul around a bin that weighs about 40 pounds fully loaded and will experience average sales of 150 dogs while walking between four and five miles per game.

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• A typical street vendor in Chicago will top your dog with yellow mustard, green pickle relish, raw onions, cucumbers and tomato slices. • Airports are a high-consumption location for hot dogs. The most are devoured at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, six times more than L.A. International and New York’s LaGuardia combined. • We say “hot dog,” but the Spanish say perrito caliente, while the French say chien chaud. The Finnish eat makkarat, and cachorro quente are consumed by the Portuguese.

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“Do you want my real dad, my stepdad or the name of the man my mom is living with?” Anyway, Social Security has had to change by Matilda Charles over the years to respond to society’s transformations. © King Features Synd., Inc. One of my favorite reference works is a book entitled “History of the Provisions of the Social Security Act.” (Now you know how boring my life is!) It provides a nice summary of the evolution of the Social Security program. Passed in 1936, the original Social Security Act provided retirement benefits for workers (again, mostly men) age 65 and older ... period. But even before No matter how fit we used to be, we have all the first monthly benefits were paid in 1940, the Social experienced muscle loss over time. Security Act was amended in 1939 to add benefits for: The syndrome didn’t have a name until the late wives age 65 and older, children under age 18 of re1980s, when a researcher at Tufts University, Irwin tired workers, widows age 65 and older, and widows of H. Rosenberg, discovered a pattern of muscle loss any age with small children. in seniors and decided it needed a name so other In 1950, Congress decided that a wife of a reresearchers would notice. Sarcopenia, he called it. tiree should be able to get monthly benefits, even if Sarcopenia is age-related muscle loss, and it can she was under age 65 if she was caring for her hushappen even if we appear to be at the right weight. band’s minor children. They also realized that there Our muscles, hidden underneath layers of fat, can were a few stay-at-home dads out there, so they added diminish, and we don’t know it until we become benefits for dependent husbands and widowers at age unsteady on our feet. It can go downhill from there, 65 and older. There was a big Social Security amendment like tipping over the first domino in a row: Lose package in 1956. It recognized that many workers did muscle, become unsteady on our feet, fall, fracture not stay healthy until retirement age, so disability bena bone, lose independence, take on a sedentary efits were added to the program. Initially, the law relifestyle. stricted such payments to disabled workers over age Over time, researchers determined that muscle 50. But just four years later, they expanded coverage loss starts in our 30s. This isn’t something we to workers of all ages. should just accept, said Rosenberg. Muscle loss In 1956, Congress also decided to make reand the rest of the “dominoes” falling needn’t be a duced retirement benefits available as early as age 62 foregone conclusion. -- but only for women. They also allowed spouses of Researchers focused on resistance-training exretired workers to claim benefits at 62. Further, they ercises for arms and legs to counteract the effects lowered the eligibility age for widows from 65 to 62. of muscle loss. Using gradually heavier weights A lot of men must have complained about preapparently allowed muscles to “wake up” and be age 65 benefits being made available only to women, able to handle even more weight. In other words, because in 1961, Social Security laws were changed to grant early retirement benefits to men and early husit’s never too late to start rebuilding muscles that band’s benefits to stay-at-home dads. have been lost through inactivity. Imagine you were a 62-year-old woman inThe details of a study done at Tufts were envolved in a terrible marriage in 1960. You had been couraging. Frail residents of nursing homes (ages married to your husband for almost 40 years when you 72 to 98) doubled the strength in the exercised finally couldn’t take it anymore and decided to get a dimuscles over 10 weeks when they worked out vorce. But then imagine your shock when you learned three times a week. Some were able to give up that you were not eligible for a nickel of your ex’s walkers, canes or wheelchairs. Social Security, even though you spent four decades A second study (women ages 50 to 70) was cooking his meals, cleaning his house and washing his conducted with easier exercises and only twice a underwear. week. The also increased their muscle strength. In 1965, Congress finally recognized this was Are you ready to join an exercise program yet? unfair, so they added benefits for divorced wives and widows. The original law limited benefits to women Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer who had been married for at least 20 years. But frusreader questions, but will incorporate them into her column trated women told Congress that being married to that whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features no good bum for even 10 years was worth something, Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853so in 1977, they lowered the duration of marriage rule Social Security Promo 6475, or send Online e-mail to -columnreply@gmail.com. c/o Nancy Holman 760.325.0812 x229 to the 10-year mark -- where it remains today. And on Nancy.Holman@ssa.gov the same subject, men pointed out that sometimes (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc. 1/8 pg. PSA they are the ones who get the shaft in a bad marriage. So in 1983, Social Security benefits were granted to divorced husbands and widowers. What You Can Do Online @ The list of amendments to the Social Security Act goes on and on. In the late 60s, the eligibility age for widows and widowers was lowered from age 65 to age 60. Disabled widows and widowers under age 60 Apply for Benefits were added to the roles beginning in 1968. Fathers Apply for Social Security retirement/spouses benefits: caring for young children without a mother finally got www.socialsecurity.gov/applyforbenefits benefits in 1983 -- to match benefits young widows had Apply for Social Security disability benefits: been receiving since 1939. www.socialsecurity.gov/applyfordisability I don’t have anywhere near enough room to Apply for extra help with your Medicare prescription list all the changes that have happened to Social Sedrug costs: www.socialsecurity.gov/ i1020 curity since the original act was passed in 1935. But I Check the status of your online application: will make this interesting point. In the entire 75-year www.socialsecurity.gov/applyforbenefits history of the program, I can think of only a handful of Social Security benefits that have been cut. 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Smoother putts Too many players put an emphasis on “hitting” the ball when putting instead of concentrating on getting the ball rolling properly. A good roll includes topspin, which results in the ball dying toward the hole instead of trailing off to the left or 30 right of the hole. 1 Many players set up to a putt with too much weight on their forward foot. This causes a steeper putting stroke which results in backspin. The ball jumps a bit, and you don’t get the topspin you are looking for.

DOLLARS & SENSE: From page 14 • For the show itself, string a line across the porch or between trees to hang the artwork. Let the kids design and make invitations to hand out to their friends. Invite the press, too, and use invitations designed by the kids. • With a little bit of planning and not much cash, you can foster some good habits in the kids as you teach them to use their ingenuity to create fun instead of heading directly for the television. David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com.

When setting up to a putt, try putting a small amount of weight on your back foot. This encourages the putter to strike the ball slightly on the upswing causing that nice forward roll. You will ﬁnd that your ball is rolling more true and you are going to make more putts.

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PHOBIAS (continued): • Some phobias relate to what’s up above, such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds (nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia), and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks are just afraid of looking up – they are called anablephobes. • Not all phobias seem that abnormal or uncommon. Lots of people might have a fear of death, known as necrophobia. But those with an extreme form might be terriﬁed of being buried alive. A nosocomephobe has a fear of hospitals, a verminophobe is afraid of germs, and a hydrophobe has an irrational fear of water. • Individuals suffering from extreme agoraphobia rarely leave their homes, due to their fear of public or open spaces and the inescapable situations that may occur there. Only home is safe. • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that comes from listening to others describe a traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear of returning home, may be able to contribute their panic to a speciﬁc incident. • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors have cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working with computers. A person with an anxiety about memories is a mnemophobe. • Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear of objects to the right. • Although some of us fear the possibility of cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince himself he has cancer because he touched someone who has it.

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Vol. VI Issue 27

KFWS • MindGym

June 14, 2010

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