… Long Beach …

... Jake the Alligator Man ...

Today, Liz and I went to Long Beach, WA and went horseback riding. We rode around for about an hour and both got a little saddle sore.

We also went to Marsh’s Free Museum, the home of Jake the Alligator Man. Jake wasn’t looking so good.

One of the strangest things we encountered was this row of little viewing booths that cost five cents. I thought they were going to be little black and white movies from 1910 or something. They had names like “Things a Woman Should Never Avoid” and “Nudist Colony”.

The first one I peeped into was called “The Sultan’s Harem”. I plopped in my nickel and this is what I saw. I was speechless.

Double click the image below to play:

[qt:/blog/movies/body.mov /blog/movies/body_poster.mov 480 360]

I’m not sure it looked that way. Maybe things decayed and fell off. The video doesn’t do it justice. I think David Lynch made that thing.