Lakeside: Not the Nightmare Carnival of its Reputation

September 10, 2007 19:10PM

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The nice old lady, Frances, at the gate kindly took my $2.50 and told me that my fly was down.

Childhood rumors of roller-coaster deaths and gangland shootings have always kept me away from Lakeside. Oh, how I was wrong. Read the blog here.

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