1,034 Comments for Rocky Point Amusement Park

What a cheesy ride this was! But oh so much fun! :-)

What a shame what became of a wonderful park. I can still remember that huge salt water pool that was seen when driving in. The dining hall was vast with tables as far as the eye could see. The shore dinner was a must for anyone visiting the park that loved sea food. The happy tunes of the menagerie carousel, the music blasting from the Music Express, screams coming from the coaster....now all gone.

i went there this past summer and its abandon to the limit friggen crack heads live in this. its soo sad that it was gone i use to go there all the time when i was little cause it was the only good attraction/theme park in rhode island.

RII Monthly is wrong. The world's first dark ride debuted in 1928 in New Jersey. The Castle of Terror was installed in 1963 in a circa 1948 walk through fun house building. Castle of Terror was renamed House of Horrors in 1970. The other dark ride John may be referring to was an imported three-decker Pinfari portable "Witch Mill" which operated 1971-1974. From 1948 to 1970, there was another dark ride which was rethemed three times, starting as Laff In The Dark and ending as Jungle Terrors. After 1970, the bulding was removed to expand the midway and to install the Sky Diver.

i was at the park 2 day!it was so cold out.It was great 2 walk the Midway one last time!It will all be gone soon!!!TAXES!!what a waste!!!I

Why thank you Lynne.

Damn, you're good. =8-o

I went here when i was a child. What a throwback! I remember it like it was yesterday.
sorry to hear it no longer operates.

Further comment on Crudelle/Janello.

Something is amiss with the article. Something that had not struck me when I read the slowart article the first time in Jan 06.

Dates do not line up properly in the articles timeline. A portion of the story tells how Vincent Crudelle was emotionally scarred at age 7 or 8 while visiting the then 'abandoned for several years' Rocky Point House of Horrors.

Well...the park closed in 1994 (and wasn't truly abandoned until after the auction in 1996 but we'll use 1994 as a starting date for the following). So lets for arguments sake say that 'abandoned for several years" equals at least 3 years. So...in 1997 Crudelle was supposedly 8. According to that article he stopped writing to his sister and/or disappeared in 2001. So if we follow the articles timeline Crudelle disappeared at age 12. Meanwhile he was suppose to have had his own workshop and attend RISDE (an art college - entering students are usually 18).

It just doesn't add up. Therefore, the article is most likely fabricated.

A little late but I just saw the request for more information about Vincent Crudelle. Here are some links:
vincent_crudelle on Myspace. Note that this is not Crudelle himself. Nor do I know who is behind this myspace page. Interestingly enough on the friends list for this page is the "Philadelphia State Hospital" Myspace web page. Almost certainly someone who is an Opacity member (or has at least passed through here one time or another).

The slowart website mentioned above has the full text from Sacred Darkness minus a few pictures.

hellisempty dot com - owned by Janello. His contact email is ont the site. There's not too much else there. The site is dedicated to Crudelle though.

Further, there is/was a business named Janello-Crudelle studio in Pawtucket RI. The phone number listed for the business has a cell prefix - but the company name is unadvertised (not even white pages). I found it only on a listing for the Pawtucket Art Festival 2006 when I googled Janellos name.

I have not read this article in RI monthly. However, many people do not know that there was an earlier dark ride at the park somewhere over near where either the Musik Express was located or where the concert stage was located. I'm not sure when the original dark ride opened but it was older than the House of Horrors. Based on other web articles that I have read on the topic I am inclined to believe the 1963 date.

Minor corrections to some of the above posted information.
Conrad Ferla ceased to own the park sometime in the 80s. 1984 I think.
The Bonoff family (Christof Bonoff?) owned Warwick Musical Tent. To the best of my knowledge Conrad had nothing to do with WMT.

when i was a kid i dreaded that ride ..we made it a few weekends a summer to go there ..and i loved that place...way better place then six flags .you used your imagination more i guess back then ..it wasnt so sugar coated like now ....so many memories as a kid ..oh and it was a ride ..you never walked through it probably 4 to 5 minutes ....good times ...oh and there was a saw involved in the picture if you look closely you can see where it hung through the ceilling that use to spin really fast as you took the corner...

Two of the horses are for sale on mycarousel.com. The Armored horse and the Indian horse. The Stork was also for sale on the site at one time.

I knew the park was doomed when the figures were sold. I did see the metal replacements on my last visit there. The magic of that carousel was gone once the original figures were sold. And of course a few years later a wonderful park was closed perminantly.

The original wood horses were sold well before the park closed, and for the last severl years metal horses were used. That was a clear sign the park was doomed, alas.

I am missing TAPS on the SciFi Channel! When are they coming back in Maryland? Thanks!