Re: Inclinometer

"woody woodrich" <[email protected]>
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And  there's the Inclined Plane, and the Mystery Spot!  But my Dad would
never stop for those places, not even Deer Park!  Woody in  WDC

Andrejs Ozolins <[email protected]> writes:


>I love this -- the Magnetic Mountain that pulls your car up the hill. 
>I've realized in recent years how many special places there were that 
>people would visit, some even to make vacations out of. Here in New York 
>State I remember that lots of cars would have signs on their bumpers 
>(before stickers, they got wired on) from the major tourist attractions 
>back in the 1950s. The major ones were Niagara  Falls (of course), Howe 
>Caverns, Ausable Chasm, and a few other caves and "petrified
>creatures" 
>and such. In those days people didn't travel thousands of miles 
>recreationally and these small wonders, within a day's drive on 
>pre-Interstate highways, got lots of traffic. Among them were the 
>magnetic hills. I can't remember one in New York State, but I assume 
>they must be everywhere. The last one I saw was one near Moncton, New 
>Brunswick, where they still had some billboards urging people to go see 
>the amazing Magnetic Hill on their way to see the Tidal Bore. Not much 
>crowding around such things in the era of Disney World.
>
>Andrejs
>Ithaca, NY
>
>
>On 2/13/11 11:22 AM, Jim Foreman wrote:
>>    I don't know but I have always been able to tell if I was going
>up 
>> hill or down but in this case, I wasn't sure.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_S64depdVE
>>
>> Jim 
>
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