Buckles Blog: Rubin & Cherry (Set 1) #9

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

A nice close-up photo showing some of the heavy-duty Dodgem cars. (The young drivers would today be in their 80’s.)

JIM ELLIOTT said...: Actually, these are Lusse Auto Scooter cars, built by Lusse Bros. mfg. a Penn. company.; 01 June, 2010 06:48
Mike Naughton said...: The drivers, who are now 80, are retired and living in Sarasota. They can be seen driving on Fruitville Road at a speed much slower than these dodgem cars.; 01 June, 2010 07:54
Anonymous said...: Today they are driving the scooters in the big grocery stores and they still try to hit anything in their way!
Bob Kitto; 01 June, 2010 08:02
Chic Silber said...: Overheard at the senior center

"I'm blind in one eye and can

barely see out of the other

deaf as a doorpost and shake

so bad I spill the coffee

thank god I still have my license"; 01 June, 2010 09:56
Chic Silber said...: These electric cars received

their power from the floor deck

and the steel plates covering

the ceiling through the steel

wheels & the spring wipers on

the top of the poles that left

a trail of sparks; 01 June, 2010 10:20
JIM ELLIOTT said...: Chic;
That's right. One of the rear wheels was steel, therefore it acted as the grounding agent, while the fenced ceiling was the positive side of the electrical equasion?; 01 June, 2010 13:08
Ole Whitey said...: I was amused when one of our local radio guys said regarding the traffic during a snow storm last winter, "Come on people, this isn't bumper cars!!!"; 03 June, 2010 00:49

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