Page 18 - Boca ViewPointe - June '21

Page 18, Viewpointe June 2021

A Night Of Imagined Death On The Cyclone

By William A. Gralnick an LaGuardia, though I did have enough senses left to see attached to the roller coaster and I couldn’t stop the ups and
one of the most beautiful sights in my life. The 58 degree downs. My friends began to fret. It was then I smoked the
Most every kid who is drop? I thought I’d either pitch forward out of the car or first and only cigarette of my life. One of them lighted up
a roller-coaster fan, knows the car would smash through the ground and I’d be eating a Camel and said, “Take a few drags on this, it’ll settle you
the Cyclone. It is an aged Chow Mein in China. That first turn? I slammed into the down.” Of course, I almost choked to death, but it worked.
boxer that can still give you side of the car so hard I had a bruise mark made by Loony Two final thoughts. Thanks to Wikipedia for the
a pretty good whack in the Toons and I had it for weeks. technical stuff and know this: I’ve never been on a roller
nose. No, it doesn’t roll over, no it doesn’t defy gravity like It was the longest two minutes and half of my life. It coaster again in my life. Now at least my age gives me a
its newer versions. What it does, in its old-fashioned way, wasn’t the speed, though in the 60’s except at Indianapolis good excuse.
is scare the hell out of you. Speedway 60 mph was considered fast. It was what kept
Take a look at this Jurassic Park creature from another happening at that speed that was so terrifying. By the time Columnist and author Bill Gralnick was born and
century. First and foremost, it is a wooden roller coaster. It we rolled to a stop, there was no fight left in this dog. In raised in Brooklyn. His latest book, titled “The War of
would be nothing, were it not. The first scary thing is that fact, my friends sort of peeled me out of the car. I couldn’t the Itchy Balls and Other Tales from Brooklyn,” offers
it isn’t shiny and new type of dangerous, it is old and nasty stand, my knees were shaking so much. They had to hold more memories. His writings can be found at https://www.
and makes you wonder if all that wood ever had termites me up. And motion sick I was. OMG! My head seemed still williamgralnickauthor.com/. 
or might just give out from age.
On a new coaster you hear the whoosh of air and the
screams of the riders. I know that from standing on the
ground near them. On the Cyclone it’s the deafening
clank, clank, clank, of the wheels on the chain driven
pully that take you up to the top at a 58 degree angle and
then the clack, clack, clack and ever increasing speeds
from the rails attached to the wooden frame. It probably
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I remembered that the roller coaster at Palisades Park flew
off the tracks, launched itself over the Palisades, and ended
up in the Hudson River. I thought, “I’m never doing this
again.”
It was well known amongst my friends that I was so
afraid of the Cyclone that I wouldn’t even walk on the
same side of the street with it. One night they jumped me,
dragged me across the street kicking and screaming for the
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