So the experience is, you get to your hotel, you roll out of your hotel, and you can walk through this amazing, call it amusement park of football and into the stadium and then back to your hotel.You never have to drive, get stuck in traffic.
OK. It's not-- no. or amusement or anger in the faces of those people around us when we use certain words.
That old wooden roller coaster at Santa Cruz -- that's Arthur Looff's, the son of Charles Looff, the man who created the Looff Pier in Santa Monica. In 1923, Arthur Looff sold the amusement pier operations to a Santa Monica amusement company, a group of Santa Monica businessmen who wanted to build up the Santa Monica Pier as the people's playground. A, the first thing they did was replace the roller coaster. The roller coaster that the Looff's had put on was not fastest, not the scariest, really not a feature type roller
Kathy Gilson, on East 79th Street. A Tom + Chee amusement park.
patients as well. So I played those games for several weeks. But Paul's amusement masked a nagging worry that I might be like this for the rest of my life.
opportunity to that if I could put these games in my arcades at the amusement park I'd make a P full of money it was not to be yet I Pro some games in 1966 on this
They closed that ride not long after my visit because the TV show it was based on was canceled and because strange live space mime amusements became unfashionable at amusement parks. And I may indeed have been the last person to have seen it. And so, after the ride was over, I went and sat down for a few moments on a park bench to ponder and absorb this
1799 he sent Charlamagne a letter which said you know dear um Emperor um I'm sending you some arithmetical amusements some arithmetical problems to amuse you
some arithmetical problems to amuse you and these amusements which are no longer with that letter that still exists but 100 years later lotss of examples of these 50 odd puzzles
Video walls for the Nets in Times Square. Immersive environments for National Amusements where there was digital art and movie trailers on all the screens. We've also done some R & D with artificially intelligent characters and-and holograms that will respond to speech and movement.
of eyeliner. The kids were filling in Scantron bubbles with number two pencils and flipping back and forth between the pages of a packet. 'Freshmen,' Torres intoned with crisp amusement in her voice. 'They're always younger than you remember.
The Steak Roppongi, this is a steakhouse We also have in our amusement section called Bagus You can play billiards, darts, table tennis There is also golf simulation, and various games and entertainment You can easily get hooked when you go In line with this We also have a cyber café, or an internet café
I was laughing so hard. It's like a perfect minefield of amusement .
about today. And the idea is that these tiny drones would maybe fly into occupied buildings or distant caves and perhaps Would it just be for our own amusement ?
sized steel shipping containers from wheezing freighters, heading to and from China, India, and Brazil. He considered three of the creamy cruise ships line up like floating amusement parks beside the docks and warehouses sleepily waiting to be restocked with food and liquor and refilled with fresh island hopping, limbo dancing tourists from the north. If the Kid were a deck hand, he'd have his own bunk at one of
And when you think about that feeling of weightlessness, that's what everybody enjoys. That's why the entire amusement park industry exists; it is to deal in weightlessness. You know, roller coasters and twisters, all that kind of stuff.
become anger or confusion or indigestion or even amusement ;
Do we have any paralegals in the crowd that know amusement law in Northern Michigan?
Let's start. I am Atsuku Matsumura president of the Diamond Dining Group Let's begin Skip this At Diamond Dining Group we work in the restaurant business Amusement business and overseas wedding business as a company listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange It may not be obvious, but I am a president of a Tokyo Stock Exchange listed company And Our company has about 5000 employees, and over 277 stores
but I just do it for my own amusement .
Kathy Gilson, on East 79th Street. They told me about they're going to have an amusement park one day.
Kathy Gilson, on East 79th Street. I can't wait to go to the amusement park.
Mixture of pleasure and pain that lies in the malice of amusement .
She's super-happy because she just got back from the amusement park.
turning a piece of vital metropolitan infrastructure into an amusement park ride and making it partially invisible to air traffic.
day. It's just, it's one of our favorite photos that we have in the office right now. Or the fact that it is an actual first generation photo that nobody else seems to have. In 1943, the, the amusement part of the Pier, it had the roller coasters, was not so much of an amusement park anymore. In fact, by 1930, the roller coaster and all the thrill rides were gone and the only real ride left on the Pier was the carousel. In 1943, Walter Newcomb, who was a banker from Venice, stepped in and purchased the franchise to the amusement pier.
is also endless joy if you really think about it. Walter passed away in 1954 and left the amusement pier to his wife, Enid Newcomb. At the time it was unusual for a woman to be operating something as large as an amusement pier, but, but she did it. She actually, she owned and operated it until 1974. She did bring in family
this picture that really identify Santa Monica Pier today? The Ferris wheel, the amusement park, Pacific Park, for one; bringing back the amusement parks to the Pier, and all of these people are sitting on the Pier deck waiting for one of the famous Thursday night concerts. And the Thursday night Twilight Dance Series concerts have been going on, this will be their 26th year.
well jackie forwarded it to the president for his amusement and the president wrote fine file under fund at the white house
And fun is the enjoyment, is the amusement , or lighthearted pleasure that you can gain in the same time you're working on the function.
But that is something that's on our radar as far as-- just think about amusement parks or venue spaces in general, concerts.
I'd spent the summer after high school graduation working in an amusement park, and truly exploring what quote, unquote, gay, meant for the first time,
There was no urgency to her movements and a strange look of amusement creased her skin.
I was just thinking about Bob and derailing him for my own amusement .
Oh yeah, they're trying to build an amusement park.
Everyone goes out. Cities are like amusement parks now.
I'd go to a ghost town or I'd go to an amusement park.
A, the first thing they did was replace the roller coaster. The roller coaster that the Looff's had put on was not fastest, not the scariest, really not a feature type roller coaster, especially when you compare it to other amusement piers in Santa Monica Bay. And at the time, there were five other amusement piers in Santa Monica Bay, two of which had many roller coasters. So, they, they built a roller coaster to compete with those other
coaster, especially when you compare it to other amusement piers in Santa Monica Bay. And at the time, there were five other amusement piers in Santa Monica Bay, two of which had many roller coasters. So, they, they built a roller coaster to compete with those other piers, but the, the diamond in their crown was the La Monica Ballroom. This was the largest ballroom in the world. It had a dance floor that could hold five thousand people at one
Walter passed away in 1954 and left the amusement pier to his wife, Enid Newcomb. At the time it was unusual for a woman to be operating something as large as an amusement pier, but, but she did it. She actually, she owned and operated it until 1974. She did bring in family friends, the Gordon family. And I mention their involvement because their family is still on the Pier today. They've been on the Pier since 1955.
on. Yes. audience member 6: Jim: The police station was added in -- it opened in 1995, just before Pacific Park, and it was added for the specific reasons that they were building an amusement park on the Pier. When I started at the Pier there, it was not the popular place it is today. There was, it was really considered seedy and, and not a, not a good place to visit and certainly
for at him to stop but my pleas were were just fueled ruta's amusement
Here we are flying full speed down the aisles of the cinema as the audience look on in amusement .
They're cracking up after she calls him sir, and he exploded in amusement , claiming that nobody had ever called him sir before.
And so I've learned so much by people who have done this research for their own amusement .
states, will interpret that state as anger or delight or amusement , just based on contextual shifts.
Oh, go on,' waving her hand over the bowl as she turned her head in mingled amusement and disgust."
Mount Auburn Cemetery-- which sounds strange, but Mount Auburn was like the amusement park at the end of the streetcar line.
We like stories that-- we talk about jumping the rails, like the way an amusement park ride would be on them.
tend to make about play is thinking that it's unbounded uh that it that as a kind of amusement or a diversion uh that play