http://www.wral.com/news/local/noteworthy/story/7989929/

Oh, the memories of road trips, high as a kite, telling stories about how this guy would come out and shoot at us, which happened once (but it wasn't with a real gun), and the old wrecked car that everyone said was his daughter who died.

RIP Acid Park, sad to see you leave that place.

7/20/2010 12:52:20 PM

never been there

7/20/2010 12:55:49 PM

All this talk about his crazy contraptions, and not a single picture in the article other than the shitty thumbnail on the left

wtf

7/20/2010 12:56:06 PM

i, too, went in high school

7/20/2010 12:58:05 PM

All this talk about his crazy contraptions, and not a single picture in the article other than the shitty thumbnail on the left

wtf

7/20/2010 12:59:59 PM

haha...my school bus went by there every day for 3 years when i was in middle school

that shit was awesome when a storm was coming up

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM. Reason : we used to go visit mr. vollis when i was little so i could see them]

7/20/2010 1:00:21 PM

that man is amazing. I could only understand about 2/5 words he's saying but amazing none the less. I really wanted a wirlygig for my birthday...

*cough*

7/20/2010 1:49:54 PM

the other 3/5 that you didn't understand was probably him saying "GOD DAMNIT"


i have never heard anybody cuss as much as him...except maybe his son...and when they worked together it was very inappropriate to be around as a child...hahah

7/20/2010 2:19:41 PM

vinylbandit and I went out there about 4 months ago and the thing I remember most about him was how much he likes Tropicana no pulp orange juice and when I asked what he had done in his life he said the US government stole 5 God Damn years of his life fighting in the war. He was also listening to Rush Limbaugh

7/20/2010 2:30:52 PM

Pics don't do it justice.
Plenty of vids on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ja1ASKTnkM&feature=related

It really came alive at night when there was wind though. Everything was coated with reflectors or reflective paints/tapes. You really understood why they called it Acid Park if you saw it at night.

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 3:13 PM. Reason : s]

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 3:13 PM. Reason : s]

7/20/2010 3:11:10 PM

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7/20/2010 3:21:38 PM

woah, now i want to go at night

7/20/2010 10:46:25 PM

my aunt and uncle bought a sweet tin-roofed swing thing from him. supposedly all made from industrial scrap. the floor is an old wooden conveyor belt.

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 11:12 PM. Reason : c]

7/20/2010 11:11:48 PM

get back to work

7/20/2010 11:12:51 PM

going at not night is a total fuck up

7/20/2010 11:13:21 PM

not night?

7/20/2010 11:19:49 PM

Quote :

"Vollis Simpson, whose giant whirligigs attracted art lovers and curiosity seekers from all over the world to a pasture on his Lucama farm, died Friday evening at home. "

http://www.wilsontimes.com/News/Feature/Story/21595135---A-LEGEND-LOST


RIP

6/1/2013 10:31:27 AM

He's actually some of my kin-folk. Pretty sad about this

6/1/2013 11:46:06 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEYmOp26Px4

6/2/2013 12:00:26 AM

is the city of Wilson taking over his whirligigs?

I heard they might - anybody ever go to the whirligig festival?

6/2/2013 12:58:21 AM

^ The city has taken the largest of them and is installing them in a park in town; said park is scheduled to open this fall.

http://www.wilsonwhirligigpark.org/

6/2/2013 1:05:12 AM

park is slated to open in November

I bet it will coincide with the Whirligig Festival
Nov. 3-4

6/2/2013 2:21:58 AM

I visited last year. I met another old man there, not Vollis, who had a cat named frog.

6/2/2013 2:51:38 AM

anybody remember back in '98 when Simpson shot those two jackass kids?

6/2/2013 12:52:04 PM

some kids from my high school (garner) were involved in a court case with him back In 98. Wonder if that's the same thing you are taking bout...

6/2/2013 8:02:46 PM

rip

6/2/2013 10:35:07 PM

^^ it is

I met one of those kids in a bar in Wilmington a few years back

6/3/2013 10:02:43 AM