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Two miles south, Jolly Roger Amusement Parks shortened its water park, GoCart, mini golf and amusement park hours to spread out its workforce as much as possible, while at Ocean City’s southern tip, Sportland Arcade closed on a Tuesday morning because its skeleton staff was too tired from long weekend shifts.

He traversed two blocks without seeing so much as a smock; what he did see was an ancient man of Italian derivation carrying a bag of charcoal on his head, and a stout woman wheeling twins stuffed uncomfortably into a single-seater gocart, and a number of nondescript humans who from their sedate air might well have been Brooklyn funeral directors.

With estimated annual profits of $1 billion and a market value of $15 billion to $20 billion, ESPN, launched in 1979 with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football and gocart racing, became Disney's go-to asset as its theme parks and ABC faltered.

When the children were old enough to begin walking, they were helped out by a colonial version of a gocart.

Starting as a "gocart" driver at the age of eight, the shy, cool-nerved Peterson eventually raced in more than 100 Grand Prix events, and this year ranked second behind Mario Andretti in the world championship driver standings.