An Interview with Sid Cahuenga
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LC: And this brings us to the golf ball?
SC: It does! During the early research, I found something which I passed over as having little relevance, to what would eventually become the basis of the attraction when looking into a more entertaining presentation. Almost overnight and with defined inspiration, the miniature golf course craze took off, and so the nature of our attraction changed.
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LC: The guest is the golf ball?
SC: And the road is a golf course!
LC: How does the architecture play a role on the course?
SC: A number of the structures will act as the ‘holes’ or obstacles for the course. Your ball will travel through or around the structures, both fast and slow, with a gentle spin for the majority of the ride with a couple of heavier spins thrown in.
LC: Why do the vehicles spin through the ride?
SC: The balls have been designed so they can seat four. Each seat is directed to view outwards so the guest can, via the spin, see a full 360 degrees of the scenes presented.
LC: This first artist rendering shows two scales of people, can you explain that?
SC: Well, the whole idea about Crazy architecture is that it is about the mostly-everyday gone large, and we thought you can’t have a golf course without people playing the game, so there are three, larger-than-life sized people on the course - a mother, father and son. When you pass through the entrance into the course you are presented with a large club being swung by the father - this strike on your ball sends you on a furious spin to set you on your way, veering toward the edges of the course before you pass through the first building - The Toed Inn.
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LC: What do you see when you pass through the buildings?
SC: In each case a re-creation of what purpose the building served. It has to be remembered, that all of these structures were businesses in some form or another, and so the interiors reflect that. In the case of the Toed Inn, it was a very successful restaurant - and when you pass through, you are disturbing lunch-time, and the patrons notice this.
LC: You are using animatronic figures?
SC: Yes plenty! Including two of myself, which I argued against and lost...
LC: That’s quite a honour, I would have thought! What happens after the Toed Inn?
SC: You dodge the falling ice cream of the little-yet-large boy and you travel up towards the shoe of Mother Goose Pantry, a well known building from Pasadena, before swooping down into the most bizarre environment that we’ve worked on - the Jail Cafe, which was originally located on Sunset Boulevard in the late twenties. The thought of dining and dancing with jail cells around you is just a riot! This is what fascinates me so much about the subject - anything goes and it generally did. You exit through a castle styled realty office and enter The Garden of Allah.
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