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24th December 2022

Question reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 23 notes

Anonymous asked:

"You know I kind of miss funnel cakes, which was a Pennsylvania thing" Uh, hit up *any* county/state/national holiday festival in the entire goddam country and get you some funnel cake. But yeah, sure - let's call it a PA thing out of misguided nostalgia.

kontextmaschine:

I mean everywhere I get calls them Pennsylvania Dutch, consider that part of the reason carnival and fair rides often have Alpine theming (and honestly even smaller indie amusement parks have pretty German-ass fairy tale theming, and why even Six Flags parks will have Oktoberfest-ass beer hall band shells) is that a lot of American amusement fair culture is honestly pretty German-tinted, and a lot of it specifically comes out of German-settled Pennsylvania and Ohio

You ever think about how the Disneyland logo

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is in a Blackletter font, underneath a banner-flying castle representing the central feature of the park, modeled on Neuschwanstein Castle in Disney’s Brothers Grimm period?

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  1. lena-the-anarchist reblogged this from drdemonprince
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  3. abilitiesconsideredunnatural reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Huh, maybe I'm wrong that it's just the Jews who gave America much-needed European influence.
  4. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    You ever think about how the Disneyland logo...is in a Blackletter font, underneath a...
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  6. kontextmaschine said: @tototavros I’m remembering it, the 48ers settled from there down to Texas, but ride designers seem to concentrate in PA and OH
  7. tototavros said: You’re completely forgetting the German settlement of the western great lakes