1,034 Comments for Rocky Point Amusement Park

I heard from my cousin that they were gonna rebuild it and when they do i want to go there

Great photo, John! Goes to show how popular the ride was right up to the end. I'm dating myself here but the line was even longer when it first opened in 1963. And as the article says, there was a "nurse' on duty at the unloading area back then!

Excellent article. Here is a photo I took in the mid 90s.

http://i51.photobucket...Black17/scan0001.jpg

You might find this interesting:

http://www.laffintheda.../articles/rp/rp1.htm

Motts:If only I had a blacklit flashlight...


Note to self find one somewhere. Bring it.

Also, the Frigtzone dark ride at Errieview Park has a mad doctor and other Tracy figures.

http://www.laffintheda...rieview/erieview.htm

Thanks John. for that clarification. On the last hallway, bottom floor, there also was a giant bat swooping overhead, but that was gone when I last rode in 1984. The torture scene was on the second floor. It was the first major scene you saw after going up the lift hill, and going out over the baloney. The hall you came down after coming in from the baloney did look like a cave. The scenes I recall on the second floor were torture, mad doctor, giant spider, and Knit Wit (which some people referred to as Mrs. Bates) . It was all Tracy stuff. Trimper's has a Tracy giant bat and a Knit Wit, but the executions are different. http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh3.htm

This hallway was not removed. Motts took this photo in 2005.

I may be mistaken because its been a long time but I believe this to be located on the ground floor the last hallway before you exit.

The park props in the 80s were worked upon by Mr. Crudelle. From all accounts a rather odd man from an odd family. You can read about Mr. Crudelle's son here:

http://www.slowart.com/articles/janello.htm

I have no information about the accuracy of the article. It does seem to be written with a flair for the dramatic. I have never met any of the Crudelles.

Wow! Pretty kinky!

This hallway would be on he top floor; an approach to Bill Tracy's torture scene as seen here in Trimper's Haunted House:
http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh5.htm
In the House of Horrors, You could hear the man being streched on the rack groaning as you rode down the corridor. The scene was at the very end of the corridor, then you turned right. This scene was removed in the early 1980s and I'm not sure why.. As I recall from a ride in 1984, a sceaming lady bound in a rope took its place. Somebody replaced much of Tracy's original Castle of Terror figures in 1980s.. Anybody know whom?

The Castle of Terror opened in 1963. It was designed by Bill Tracy of Cape May, NJ -- a prolific dark ride designer who also designed Crescent Park's Riverboat.. The viking was actually inside the first two years. He was at the end of a narrow passgeway near the conclusion of the ride. The car made contact with him as it passed. (actually the base he was mounted on). The ride was renamed House of Horrors in the 1970s. and the sign came from another dark ride down the midway that ran from 1948 to 1963. Trimper's Haunted House, also designed by Tracy, has some of the same figures including the woman being sliced on a table saw. They were all made from the same molds. See this article and see if you can ID some of the fiigures. The Trimpers' ride opened in 1962: http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh1.htm

Now darlin', come on over to the Forum and we'll chat it up with you all over the place. :-)

did you really walk through that thing???!!!
I cack my pants at the sight of a ghost train, let alone actually approaching one!
You brave brave people!

the convo's are v. v. v. amusing to read sometimes but then again when people have convo's between themselves it can make you feel a little left out...*sob*

No idea about the video. I'll look it up when I get the chance.