Member Spotlight - WEEK 4 [jonrev]

[BP317]

SFGAmWorld Member Spotlight



Week 4: [jonrev]


Name:Jon Revelle

Occupation: Marshall Field's/Macy's associate, Admin at SFGAmZone and SFGAmWiki

Coaster Count: 40 Total, 34 Steel, 6 Wood

Favorite Theme Park: Great America

Favorite Attractions at that Park: Demon & Darevil Dive

Favorite Wooden Coaster: El Toro

Favorite Steel Coaster: Demon

Favorite Park Character: Bugs Bunny

Most Overrated Coaster: Top Thrill Dragster (up and down with alot of speed. whoop-dee-freakin'-doo)

Most Underrated Ride:Demon Drop

Favorite Dark Ride: Disaster Transport

Family Guy character that represents you the most: Evil Monkey

Hobbies: Coasters (duh), Pontiac Fieros, Photography, Dead Malls, Abandoned Buildings, Randomness

Music: Wesley Willis, UFO, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Guns n Roses, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Motley Crue, Rush

Beverages: VAULT!!!!!!!

Food: BACON

Sports Teams: Chicago, except the Cubs

Favorite Holiday: Halloween, I have something to do after the car shows end and when the park's closed during the week.

Favorite Presidents: Bill Clinton

The Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow: "My Cat's Breath smells like Cat Food"

Favorite Stooge from the Three Stooges: Curley

Favorite song from a Disney movie: Heigh-Ho (Snow White)

Favorite Comedians: Jeff Dunham, Yucko the Clown, Jay Leno

Favorite mod/admin: RagingBullFan, met him a few times when I worked Ragin Cajun in 07.

Favorite fast food place: White Castle and Taco Bell, a deadly combination

Favorite YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOUzDGwX4kA

Favorite TV Shows: Everything on [adult swim] that's not anime, Parking Wars, Simpsons, South Park, Cops, Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest ________s

Interesting fact about yourself:I was in a newspaper for my Halloween thing

Lohan or Duff: Duff

One trip you really want to do: Drive the Fiero on Route 66 from Joliet to St. Louis and do SFStL

Next Member Spotlight: Director Guy

[Jackluver18]

Very nice picture with Shockwave

[Danhockey04]

/\ Thanks for that compliment, thought it was good myself. But dead malls?

[[jonrev]]

^
Probably because I find it kinda interesting that a huge place that was probably once the biggest thing in the area can become a ghost town in a matter of years. Or maybe it's because they're a great place to play with my camera.


(Randhurst Mall - Mt. Prospect, IL)

[w00dland]

How do you get into a place like that?

[[jonrev]]

^The mall in the photos closed September 30 (to be demolished), those shots were from closing day. There were two stores remaining, as well as the anchor stores. The rest of the mall was empty. The only people there were those taking pictures, and a few mall employees.

[Coaster Justin]

Hey Jonrev, congrats!!!!! Btw, what happened to SFGAmWiki?

[[jonrev]]

The original hosting service crashed and we lost everything. Things are running again, just everything needs to be re-written.

[Galvan]

Nice report John.

You arent the only one who knows about deadmalls.com on this site heh.... Myself and Chitown have been on that site several times. Its pretty interesting.

[[jonrev]]

Nice. Chitown contributed a few pics of Lakehurst being demolished for my Lakehurst history site, didn't know there were any other people here who like dead malls.

[ben_the_bear]

Nice jon. You have a very healthy diet. I remember you telling us how you're a soda enthusiast. You still got the cool car to pick up all the ladies in?

[[jonrev]]

^You mean this one?

This winter I'm going to finish restoration on it. By next summer it will have all the brake work finished, new seats from a wrecked low-mile Fiero (nearly brand new seats), new exhaust tips, new emblems, I might get some new red paint on the air intake plenum and valve covers, and the underbelly will be cleaned up a bit.

[ben_the_bear]

So you parked your car in front of American Eagle to take a picture

[tp41190]

Hey that is a pretty cool picture...worth it.

[[jonrev]]

That shot was for a calender contest on fierostore.com, a Fiero parts store. I don't know if it got anywhere though. When I get a new camera I'm going to try and re-shoot that in the Summer because I wasn't too happy with the way the lighting came out.

[ben_the_bear]

Jon, you need to put on a speedo and put baby oil all over yourself and lay on the car. That's how you win the calendar picture contest.

[[jonrev]]

Creepy...

I have no idea what else to say so have a picture of a guy in a flannel.

[ben_the_bear]

Nice. That's the guy who designed the g-trains.

[BP317]

/\ Are you sure thats not the guy that owns the farm near Alton Towers?

[ben_the_bear]

^ Are you talking about oakwood, because they have a sheepfarm right behind their wooden coaster?

[BP317]

No im talking about the guy that owns the farm that got the court order for them to remove their shuttle loop because he could see the top of the loop which made it so that they cannot build anything above the treeline.

[bigb7965]

so thats why everything is so short over there

[ben_the_bear]

Yeah that sucks. They've done a good job with building around that restriction though.

[bigb7965]

yeah nemesis looks incredible