Every year, my parents and I go on a trip to Kalahari Resorts in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Besides Wisconsin Dells, there’s a Kalahari in Sandusky, Ohio…. Then, a 3rd location was planned for Fredericksburg, Virginia, but it kept being delayed. Now the 3rd location is in Poncoco Mountains, Pennsylvania. You never know….maybe sometime soon, the Fredericksburg location just MIGHT be built and then open, but for right now the Fredericksburg location is being discussed and the Wisconsin Dells, Sandusky, and Poncoco Mountains locations are being fun-filled. That’s the end of this post. CATCH MY OTHER POSTS!
The MGM Lions (with a small vacation talk)
Well, it’s FINALLY 2016, and now I’m finally 13 years old. Today was the last day of Winter Break, and I guess that means I’ll do only 1 Winter Break post. I know you were hoping for more, but I’ve been too interested in other things. Well anyway, in 1916, the Goldwyn Pictures studio filmed the lion logo for the first time. They filmed another lion in 1923. In 1924, Goldwyn Pictures teamed up with Metro Pictures and Mayer Pictures to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios. Metro and Mayer both liked Goldwyn’s logo, so they decided to make the lion […]
Hooked on a Line
Remember how I said I would do a post NEXT weekend? Well, it’s being made THIS weekend. Sorry, but with so many events going on and me being tired, I haven’t been making much posts these days. On September 30, 2004, Japanese Scientists went on a 5-ton fishing boat to the ocean, with sperm whales leading their way. They then lowered a line to 3,000 feet under the ocean. The line had a camera, 2 hook traps, and a fish bait. They had did this 23 times in the past. Then, at 9:15 A.M., a Giant Squid 26 feet long appeared, and […]
Rare to Find These Logos
My first post of December! Also, sorry I haven’t been making too many posts lately, I’ve just been tired and pretty busy with other things. From 1996 to 2007, Nickelodeon used a ending logo shaped like a lightbulb: In the full version, however, a hand pulls on a string. You just cannot see the string because the light bulb is so bright. The full version is show right below. There are also many MTM logos. Down below are some of them.Also, Horizon airplanes have been repainted into Alaska airplanes, and Many Big Kmarts are now normal Kmarts again. That’s the […]
Goodbye, Sentry
My first (and only) post of November! I also talked about this Sentry closing because of the Wal-Mart next to it being more cheaper in my last post, but here I will talk about it some more. The Sentry Foods market in Whitewater, Wisconsin was built by Fleming Companies, Inc. in 1997. The Daniels company purchased it in 2003. The Sentry is a chain of grocery stores through Wisconsin. Different companies own different Sentry stores. The only other Sentry stores owned the Daniels were located in Janesville (2 stores), Walworth, Elkhorn, and Belleville. East Janesville Sentry West Janesville Sentry Elkhorn […]
Tough Moment in Your Mind?
In Whitewater, there is a Sentry Foods store. Down below is an image of it. Right next to Sentry on the left, there is a Walmart store. Down below is a google maps view of it from October 2007. Then, in the summer of 2011, the Walmart was upgraded into a larger, and cheaper one that now sells foods. Down below is an image of it of September 2012. Due to the newer Walmart being more cheaper, Sentry lost a lot of money. It was in mid-October 2015 that they announced they were closing. The Sentry in Whitewater will be […]
Turn on your Noggin
Sorry, I’ would’ve written a post LAST weekend, except we had to much business to do. In 1999, a preteen network called NOGGIN launched. From 1999-2002, the channel was meant for preteens. Some programs were meant for preschoolers, however. On April 1, 2002, the format was changed, and now little children programming was shown on it ALL the time. On the same day Viacom lanced The N, a network for teenagers. At 6:00 PM ET every night, Noggin would switch to The N, but in the morning at 6 AM ET, they would switch back. It went like this for […]
Once a Road, now a Bike Path
In Madison, Wisconsin (before 2006), there used to be a road called Thornton Avenue. It had 2 railroad crossings. One used Gates and Flashers. The other used Wig-Wags. Both crossings were used by the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad. Unfortunately, I could not find any pictures of the Thornton Avenue #1 Gates and Flashers anywhere on the internet. So I just have some pictures of the crossing #2 Wig-Wags down below. Down below is a photo of the Wig-Wags in action. But then, in the summer of 2006, for reasons unknown, the road was narrowed, and was renamed as Yahara Parkway. The […]
Plymouth, Wi, and Vernon, Mi, Wig-Wags
My first post of October! Plymouth, Wisconsin has 2 railroad crossings shown below. One is at Elizabeth Street, and the other is at Main and Milwaukee Street. There’s an interesting story beyond these crossings. A few decades ago (before 1981), there used to be a total of 6 Wig-Wags here. The Milwaukee Road Rails owned one half of the signals and the CNW Rails owned the other half. In 1981, the Milwaukee Road Rails replaced their half of the signals with modern flashers, while the CNW Rails somewhat left their half alone. There used to be a road called Main Street […]
Some Great Past Times From When I Was Younger (and My Future Ahead of Me)
Well, it’s the last weekend of September 2015. In just a little more than 3 months from now, after 12 long years I will finally become an teenager. It’s an interesting feeling, but I enjoyed the years before that too. I wanted to share some fantastic and some sad past times from the previous years, so this will be kind of a long post. In June of 2011, most of my family and I went on a cruise trip for 10 days. On June 17, my parents, brothers, and I left our house and flew over to New Jersey. On June […]