Magic Mountain is a huge metal jungle of absolute fun! I wish we lived closer. We learned on day 2, to go to the right when entering. X2 and Tatsu are fun, but we enjoyed Full Throttle, Super Man, Goliath and Lex Luthor so much more and rode multiple times.
Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley. President Harry S. Truman officially opens the first White House bowling alley on this day in 1947. The two-lane bowling alley, situated in the West Wing, had been constructed earlier that year. According to Smithsonian Magazine, a group of Trumanâs fellow Missourians funded the construction of the bowling alley in honor of the president.
Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to have a telephone and a typewriter in the White House â the telephone was installed in May 1879 and the typewriter arrived in February 1880. In 1881, President James Garfield was the first to review the inaugural parade from a specially built platform in front of the White House. In 1897 William McKinley became the first president to review the parade from a glass-enclosed stand as protection from the weather.