Hi all ...i thought this might be interesting to all you TITANIC fans ..mostly for you Boisse....We took the kids to Niagara Falls today(ontario canada) and i came across this slide they had set up on a backstreet..it was a bit of a mental delema for my 12 and 14 year old who saw it and thought it abit morbid to have a slide like this in light of so many people died on the real ship..they wondered if the kids who were riding it new what really happened on that ship..i was prowd of my kids that they remebered so much about the ship and the people on her...so the qestion i ask of all of you is this distastefull? or is it just a ride? and the kids were making to much of a big deal about it ...i thougt it was pretty cool but i also understand what my kids are saying..i have some pics to share

Here are some more pics

and another angle.. other question has anyone ever seen this before and if anyone wants a good shot let me know ill email you some good photos

They had this(or one like it) at the annual Franco-American festival here. I found it a bit morbid myself. For heaven's sakes!

im glad you agree i told the kids just now that the titanic xpert agreed with them so now they fell more justifided in there reaction..thanks

Yeah, I'm not too sure this is a great idea. You're suppossed to have fun on slides. But relating fun to a disaster where thousands of people died...thats not right.

my 12 year old daughter was so mad when all the kids came running to go on it ...she said she wanted to go thell them."you know over a thousand people died on the real titanc..i thought this would sturr up some emotion on this forum..thanks TA for your input.

in Native American mythology, there are three levels of time: the present, the Age of Ancestors, and the Myth Age.

The Age of Ancestors involves things that we still vividly remember, but which have already begun to take on a mythic sort of air. Even something like 9/11 has begun to pass from the Now into our Ancestral past. The Cold War, the Apollo moon landing... those are all on the cusp of becoming modern myths.

Things like Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust--and yes, the Titanic disaster--are now completely in the Myth Age because our recollections of them are based, not on the reports of those who survive, but on books and films inspired by the real people and events.

Does that make it any less distasteful to turn the loss of more than 1500 lives into an amusement park attraction? I don't know. Is that any worse than making it into a melodramatic blockbuster silver screen romance novel?

Quetico I am proud, as I am sure you are too that your kids are smart enough to know better than to take advantage of a bad commercialization of a disaster that took over 1,500 lives. I am glad to hear that there are kids who are well educated and smart enough to know the story of the Titanic. I barely enjoyed the romantic fictionalization that the James Cameron movie did of the tragedy. And have even seen the 1950s movie based on it too. I am stunned that there was no protesters at the slide. Just goes to show you that there is always someone out to make a buck on anything.

You are so right Tony, Some one will always look for a way to make a buck. I some what agree with you about James Camerom's Titanic I think it was way good way to bring it to the attention of the younger set just how tragic it was. A slide in a park it just to much to take. t: