A Whale of a Car Wash! For Weathervane Wednesday

 This weathervane was photographed in Lunenburg, Massachusetts

The Whalom Wash is a car wash business located on Route 13 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.  We have driven past this whale weathervane for many years, but this is the first time we stopped to take a photograph!  This is a two dimensional weathervane, the silhouette of a right whale above the cardinal points.  This business is near Lake Whalom, and across the street from the former "Whalom Park" (an amusement park that operated from 1893 to 2000).  The park lay abandoned for many years, but the last structures, including the huge Flying Comet rollercoaster was demolished in 2006. 

Whalom is pronounce WHALE-um, and the amusement park used a whale as its mascot. The TV advertising for the park had a jingle I still remember from my childhood "Whalom Paaaark...for a whale of a time!"  Lake Whalom covers 103 acres.  The Native Americans in this area called it Uncacchewalunk, which was shortened and corrupted to Walun or Whalom.  

For the truly curious:

Whalom Wash, 380 Electric Avenue, Lunenburg, Massachusetts:   https://whalomwash.mywashclub.com/portal/default.aspx  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Whale of a Car Wash! For Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 16, 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-whale-of-car-wash-for-weathervane.html: accessed [access date]).