Charming Charlie

Charming Charlie playing the organ at the fun house in Cave City, Kentucky. 1977

Past posts about the fun house HERE

Random Wrap Up

A few random shots from our Labor day weekend that I wanted to post before I go back to scanning slides.

Levi wanted to see what was under the Old Mulky Meeting House.

We warned him!

Me filling the meeting house pulpit.

Joel was showing Amanda the outside accommodations.

Levi was considering buying a poncho for work.
He should have bought it!

Amanda defying gravity.

Adam and Megan shrinking and growing.

Elaine and I turn.

Megan feeling groovy.

Elaine looking pretty in the crazy house.

Levi planking in the shrinking room.

Beth riding the Ferris wheel.

Elaine after running up all the steps from Mammoth Cave "Rocky Style".

Adam the alien.

Levi the singer.

Waiting on our King Fish lunch.

Eating by the river.

Ohio river in the background.

Megan and Adam.

Levi smashing a rock at the Falls of the Ohio.

Wigwam Motel

Every time we go to our family reunion my family also makes a pilgrimage to the Wigwam motel.

I stayed here once when I was very little and I think it was sufficient for a life time but I still love to visit the place.

I fear that it will fall prey to the bulldozers and be forgotten.

So I impress its memory upon my family so it will live on in memory if it is ever torn down.
We had our new son-in-law and the boys had their girlfriends with them so we did more than pull in and soak it in from the car.

We went into the office/gift shop.


Mostly junk was for sale. Some of the things I remember as a kid. Tom-toms and suction cup bows and arrows.

The rest was not even worth mentioning. It seems the owners want to put as little effort into the place as possible.

I did find this little gem though. They only had this one on display so I don't know if it is the big or the small replica.

Megan and Adam.

The wigwams are in an arch around the office/gift shop with a playground in the middle of them.

Levi and Beth.

Joel and Amanda.

The kids.

I hope they put some effort into the place and keep it open for future generations.

Mammoth Cave

Here is where you buy your ticket to go through the Mammoth hole in the ground.
It was $12 apiece for us to take the "History Tour".

The history tour starts out by marching down the hill to the caves natural entrance.

The first big room you get to is huge!
Flash cameras could not capture it. It is just to big.

Here is a fence they used to keep cows from getting lost in the cave.

Not really. It is hollowed out logs they used to bring water down in the cave to help with a salt peter mine that used to be in the cave.

This rock is called the giant coffin. Here is where I guide told us not to carve on the cave walls while we watched a guy carve on the cave wall and pose for pictures with it. Nice.

She also had all of the lights turned out and showed us the lanterns they used to use in the cave when the first tours were given.

She then blew it out to let us experience how dark the cave was.
This "darkness" lasted about a nanosecond before some man panicked, cried for his Mommy and turned on his flash light. Jerk.

We had another guy in our group that keep wander of and had to be cashed down by the park rangers. People are amazingly stupid.

Look at the giant coffin picture again and notice the people in our group going behind the rock.
This is where our tour continued.


Down we go deeper into the heart of the Earth.


Deeper.


Deeper.
the flash works better now that the cave passages are smaller.

You really had to watch your head.



Getting crazy short.

Now we are getting ready to go through Fatman's Misery and they also called it Tallman's agony.

Notice how small the area is for our legs and our heads.

The floor got taller and the ceiling got lower as we went.

I hope no one unplugs the lights.

This was our tour guide. I think there were 89 people in our group.

Levi was a little scared.

He kept hitting his head on the ceiling then he invented this clearance indicator.



Two hours later we made it to the opening again.

Resting outside the cave.


This is the natural entrance from my resting spot.
You can see the rail and people in the bottom left corner.


Back up to the car and the road to Indiana.