From: wjf@controls.ccd.harris.com (Bill Figie)
Subject: Re: Please Help
Originator: wjf@rs2
Organization: Harris Controls
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:36:36 GMT


In article <1992Aug27.214351.24292@news.media.mit.edu>, maglione@media.mit.edu)
Tom Maglione write in response to Mary Ann's post:
|> In article <1992Aug27.151538.12968@sei.cmu.edu> mapike@sei.cmu.edu (Mary Ann Pike) writes:
|> >The Dips was an old wooden out-and-back with a lovely swooping return
|> >curve at the far end (the first thing that you would see as you drove into
|> >the park entrance). It was pretty long, from what I remember, and had a
|> >wonderful set of camelbacks coming in...lots of air time (in old-fashioned
|> >cars with only a lap bar and leather seatbelt).
|> >
|> >The Racing Whippet at the other end of the park was great, too. Completely
|> >built into a hillside, surrounded by trees (you couldn't see anything else
|> >in the park from this coaster). It was a continuous track racer, like the
|> >one at Kennywood, if I remember correctly. If you sat in the last seat
|> >(only seat belts on this one), you were absolutely thrown up in the air
|> >going down the first hill...there was no way to stay seated on this one.
|> > (stuff about the Little Dips deleted)
|> >I'm getting maudlin...better stop before I start dripping tears into my
|> >keyboard...
|> 
|> For Mary Ann and other interested parties out there, I highly recommend the
|> book "Goodbye Westview Goodbye" by Charles Jacque; if you have tears now
|> just recollecting, wait until you read this one and look at the photos that
|> Charlie has meticulously put together for this book. 

To Mary Ann and Tom and others that remember West View Park,
    There was a piece done on the local Pittsburgh PBS station several years ago
on West View Park.  Actually it was part of a much larger show called "Things
that arn't there any more".  It had about 15 to 20 minutes of West View videos,
slides, postcards, photos, etc.  It was wonderfully produced.  The Raging
WHippets looked like a one of a kind coaster and the Dips I hear was fantastic. 
Probably as good as anything Kennywood had.  It was sad for me that I never got a
chance to visit this, what looked like, a wonderful park.  If anyone out there
would like to trade me a video or two for a copy of this West View Park thing, I
would be happy to make them a copy and trade.  I am always looking for trades of
videos.  I am always glad to trade a full tape of assorted videos, plus one or
two special videos that a person would request, for one or two videos I don't
have in my collection.  But it may be hard to find something I don't have in my
collection.  I have over 2000 different clips I have collected and traded for
over the last 13 years.  So if there is something out there that you would like
to get a copy of and have something to trade for, drop me a line.  I am also in
the ACE directory if you want to send me a list of your collections.  Please
don't ask for my whole list.  It runs over 100 sheets of paper printed sideways
in very small print.  Sorry to turn this into a sort of ad, but I wanted to let
Mary Ann know about the West View Park video.


			Bill "coaster video collector" Figie