Yeeep!Posted on 08/22/2019 2:50:38 PM PDT by Texan4Life
A German theme park quickly shut down a new ride -- not due to safety reasons, but because critics said it resembled "flying swastikas."
The "Eagle Fly" ride at Tatzmania, an amusement park in Löffingen, a city roughly 60 miles northwest of Zurich, Switzerland, was widely criticized after a video of it in motion reportedly circulated online.
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I still don’t know, but I’m now complaining to my station about those Crazy 88 car ads.
One day, cultures of the world - literally every culture throughout history in the world - will reclaim the swastika from the filthy nazis.
Yeeep!Next you’ll be claiming you don’t know what the 14 words are.
Rush explained it on his show a week or two ago.
Maybe they can sell it to Tlaib, Omar, and AOC as a fundraising tool.
Thank you, I try. ;-D
Good pictures of the site.
Yucca Hotel, New Mexico —
The Yucca Hotel has an interesting history. It opened in June 1929 as the Hotel Swastika—yes, Swastika. The hotel chose Swastika because it was a symbol commonly used in the area by many of the local Native American Indian tribes. There were many businesses in the Raton area that also used the Swastika symbol and name in their corporate logo and masthead. The hotel operated for ten years as the Hotel Swastika until it changed its name to Hotel Yucca in 1939.
Raton was then a major crossroads with three major U.S. highways bisecting the city and was on the main route of the Santa Fe Railroad. When the hotel opened it had six floors and 80 guest rooms. The ground floor held several businesses that paid rent to the hotel. One Raton resident described the building as “very elegant” and the best hotel between Santa Fe and Colorado Springs. An article in the Raton Range newspaper noted that Taos artists consigned some of their artwork in the hotel. Interested patrons could purchase the paintings and this kept a steady supply of nice artwork on exhibit in the hotel.
By 1938 the actions of Adolf Hitler had alarmed enough people that the Swastika symbol took on a whole new meaning. The hotel manager at the time Ainslee Embree said that potential guests refused to stay at the hotel because of the negative connotations associated with the Swastika. A contest was held and the new name chosen was the Yucca, in honor of the New Mexico state flower
Yucca Hotel, New Mexico —
The Yucca Hotel has an interesting history. It opened in June 1929 as the Hotel Swastika—yes, Swastika. The hotel chose Swastika because it was a symbol commonly used in the area by many of the local Native American Indian tribes. There were many businesses in the Raton area that also used the Swastika symbol and name in their corporate logo and masthead. The hotel operated for ten years as the Hotel Swastika until it changed its name to Hotel Yucca in 1939.
Raton was then a major crossroads with three major U.S. highways bisecting the city and was on the main route of the Santa Fe Railroad. When the hotel opened it had six floors and 80 guest rooms. The ground floor held several businesses that paid rent to the hotel. One Raton resident described the building as “very elegant” and the best hotel between Santa Fe and Colorado Springs. An article in the Raton Range newspaper noted that Taos artists consigned some of their artwork in the hotel. Interested patrons could purchase the paintings and this kept a steady supply of nice artwork on exhibit in the hotel.
By 1938 the actions of Adolf Hitler had alarmed enough people that the Swastika symbol took on a whole new meaning. The hotel manager at the time Ainslee Embree said that potential guests refused to stay at the hotel because of the negative connotations associated with the Swastika. A contest was held and the new name chosen was the Yucca, in honor of the New Mexico state flower
“I’m sure it’s just a “coincidence” that the ride employees wear festoon pants and black knee boots. And direct the riders which row to line up in.”
Where did you see that?
I did Nazi this coming...
Had to look that one up too! I should have known that one. The guy who came up with the phrase was convicted of Alan Berg's murder in Denver back in the 80's.
There is a swastika motif on an old hotel in Farmington NM. We stayed there back in 1956. Last time I was there it was still there.
The room with the photography studio is where we stayed back then. It was originally a bank back in the 1920s.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/4846911352_0d550c7451_b.jpg
“Until I read this thread I didn’t know what 88 is slang for. I guess I don’t make a very good white supremacist.”
Don’t feel bad I had to look it up also.
following the tagline lol
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