As Daniel screamed around the Fun Factory Go-cart track, “Help, I’m going to die; don’t kill me, don’t kill me!, little did we realize the imminent death of the facility itself was closer than our own.
Go-cart Ride Video
I nailed a little girl in the rear and she squealed off toward the railing as we passed. As my wife reviewed the video event footage she commented on the “No Bumping” rule emblazoned on the cart’s fender.
When I stumbled and mumbled around how everyone from our Company’s night at the races did the same, she referred me to the NASCAR racing term of “Rubbing”. Following standard racing rules, I committed no bumping foul “because rubbing is racing” (otherwise known as “cus rubbin is racin”).
Before tooling around the Racing Course, Daniel and I baptized ourselves in the Bumper Boat waters. Nervous about winter water temperatures, I abandoned caution for near certain Wet T-Shirt nipple effects. I stowed the new Sony Cyber-shot HX5V/B Digital Camera in the Lincoln LS to insure its dry passage though the moistest of Fun Factory times.
Fun Factory Bumper Boats
Dowsed by waterfalls and soaked by squirt-gun cannons, we chased and bumped around the bay in gas powered round Norton Utility like looking yellow and blue buoy rafts.
Familiar with Yuma’s Historic Landmarks and Western old town feel, the mini-golf course and building décor captures the community with the cleverest of designs. Looking at the Water Tower building components shows how standard plumbing supplies can transform into a small town realistic looking facsimile.
Fun Factory Mini Golf Course
Clever design doesn’t always pay the bills and those I visited the Fun Factory with express sadness in its 12th April temporary closing announcement. I heard they employed 200 people that were notified Sunday night not to return.
The 2009 May opening provided Yuma with a needed shot in the arm, with an exciting entertainment spot and this April’s closing feels like a shot in the belly. On my first visit, I dreamed of owning the place and wondered how I could transfer some of its elements to my house.
Baptized by the Fun Factory Waters
I drove by the Fun Factory alongside the I-8 Interstate Freeway last night and the brilliant Fun Factory light still shown with its US and Arizona flags flying at full staff. Good luck to those in reviving it from financial woe; good luck to raising our spirits once again to join those high flying flags with a new reopening.
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