Today is National Roller Coaster Day
If you love a thrill ride – THIS is the day for you! Back in 1878, Richard Knudsen and J.G. Taylor received a U.S. patent for what would eventually be referred to as a wooden roller coaster. The device consisted of two adjacent railway tracks that ran between two towers carrying four-passenger cars; the force of gravity would pull the cars down gently sloping hills. The cars would then be hauled up by the elevator in the opposite tower for the return trip.
The Roller Coaster in Mission beach behind me is almost a century old..