Random Flashback for Friday 3/24/17

We're just about halfway through the series of seven photos from twenty years ago in 1997 (admittedly all from September so not *quite* two decades exactly), and if you haven't guessed the location yet, I feel certain that you are about to do so -- if not from this photo, then certainly from the one that is going up in two weeks.

As for this particular photo, it's the equivalent of a carnival ride in that a number of ... let's call them "carnies" ... would manually twist and turn this wooden ... let's call it a container ... until the tension was so great on the ropes connecting it to that certain pole that they would let go and the thing would spin and spin and spin ... much to the enjoyment of those sitting in the container.

And in this photo, the guy waving at the camera from that position was little Jakey W -- that is, from when he *was* little twenty years ago ...