Any San Francisco Bay Area Old Timers Remember Playland at the Beach?

[Dem2theMax]

33. That was cruel! And I laughed my head off.

Okay, I have to share a funny roller coaster story with you.

There was another roller coaster at Magic Mountain, a big iron or steel, whatever they make it from, roller coaster. Can't remember the name of it, but it had some killer loops in it. First time I had been on a roller coaster with loops

Anyway, I have to wear glasses to be able to see. I'm blind as a bat without them. And of course, I had to remove them for the ride or I would have lost them.

I'm on this roller coaster with my younger cousin. I was in my late teens or early twenties, and the younger cousin was probably about 10 years old. She was quite game to go on the roller coaster, and I was the one who was scared to death.

There were two young boys sitting in front of us. And I am guessing they were roller coaster old timers, in spite of their age. They could hear me talking about my fear of this ride, so they spent most of the ride turned around, to watch me and my reactions. I'm sure they had a lot of fun with that. Lol.

The ride started, and we were pulling out of the station, my glasses tucked safely away in my purse. And I could see some white framing up ahead, and I took that framing to be part of the support for the roller coaster itself. This 'framing/support' was painted white, as was the entire roller coaster.

The next thing I know, the roller coaster car starts climbing this white framing. At about that point, I realized it wasn't framing, it WAS the roller coaster, and I was about to pee my pants! Because of my vision, I couldn't really tell where we were going at any moment in time, so the entire ride was one surprise after another. To this day I don't know how I survived it. I never got on that thing again.