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Pennsylvania's Back Mountain
Pa SHOOT-THE-CHUTE, 1915. The 60-foot-high Shoot-the-Chute can be seen
with the steamboat Acoma at the Lehigh Valley Railroad picnic grounds landing.
The Shoot-the-Chute was built by Charles Shelley in 1910, and it was one of the
...
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Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and ...
In 1902, they introduced the "shoot the chute" system of loading, designed to
maximize speed and minimize skill. Under the "shoot the chute" system,
screwmen calculated, a crew of four or five men would have to stow anywhere
from 400 to ...
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New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism 1892-1923
Workers named the new pace "shoot-the-chute." With several winches operating
at once (and more quickly), more than 400 bales a day descended to the men in
the holds. Men worried that shoot-the-chute "cut down the amount of work left ...
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Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class
After the turn of the century, the four major shipping lines that controlled the
overwhelming bulk of the port's cotton inaugurated a new "shoot the chute"
system of loading, designed to maximize speed and minimize skill. Screwmen
complained ...
Or you'd be watching the shoot-the-chute to see if you could spot Sylvie as she
swooshed down into the pond, because the shoot-the-chute was Sylvie's favorite
ride. And then you'd see Jolly Olga way across the pond and her shadow would ...
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Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and
the Turning World
In Swiss Shoot the Chute of 1941 (fig. 8), we are invited to fling the ball into one
of the many holes (as at a country fair booth); if we are successful, the ball will
travel down a "chute" behind the board and ring a series of cowbells. (Cornell
loved ...
This is a view of the Shoot the Chute ride from the Rustic Bridge. After 1940, the
island became the focal point of the park with the addition of Blue Island Pool.
The Shoot the Chute Ride existed in the early years, prior to the St. Patrick's Day
...
Canvas Strip Used as Campers' Shoot-the-Chute is perhaps the cheapest,
lightest, •*• and most easily transported shoot-the- chute that the camper can
make — simply a length of heavy canvas about 2 ft. wide provided with a
grommet in each ...
... anyone who was daredevil enough got into the boat, which was then released
to slide down and bounce across the water. The slide on the Shoot-the-Chute
pviln rises above Boats and people gather at the Shoot-the-Chute pavilion to
enjoy.
George Anne Cormier, 2013
A sign made of hundreds of red and blue light bulbs proclaimed RIDE THE
SHOOT-THE-CHUTE! “Whatis the Shoot-the-Chute?” Ashley demanded. I
shrugged. “Some kind ofwater ride, I'd guess.” I suddenly noticed that people
were staring at ...
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shoot-the-chute в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
Holiday World announces big changes and new rides for 2013
Splashin' Safari will gain a second ride, as the Pilgrims Plunge shoot-the-chute ride becomes part of the water park and is renamed Giraffica. “We're not moving ... «Dubois County Free Press, Окт 12»
Happy 100th birthday, PNE!
... June Robertson, who met at Playland when it was still Happyland and shared their first kiss atop the Shoot-the-Chute ride when he was 11 and she was 10. «The Province, Авг 10»
Riverview: Blast from the past
It began with three rides: a small roller coaster, a carousel and a shoot-the-chute. When the park closed on Sept. 1, 1967, it had 120 rides, including six ... «Chicago Tribune, Июл 08»
