1,034 Comments for Rocky Point Amusement Park

...in other words how could you have met him? He was long gone by the time you got there.

Wait a sec. Something doesnt add up year wise. Craig worked at RP in 89 which is also the year that he committed the 2nd set of murders. By 1994, the year you were there, he no longer worked for the park. In fact he had already been in prison for five years. I'm wondering if you are confusing the two Craig's. The murderer worked in foods not games.

Both sisters looked amazingly alike although it was obvious that there was a couple of years difference between them. They also both had that Warwick 'big hair'. No offense if that also describes you! I'm thinking that perhaps the girls name was Jenny rather than Caty, but even that might be wrong. We're probably talking 1991. Not sure if they were still there in 1994. The younger sister worked in the flea market in the winters.

the milk jug ball toss was wiked hard!!! occasionally, I would give one of the prizes away after someone had dropped what seemed like an obscene amount of money (at the time) to me....

nope....my sister didn't work there...but I know who you're thinking of.... i think... i was there in 94

I went to the park just yesterday to take a gander. I was only 11 the last time i had been there. I remember the last ride i went on, i forget what it was called but it was kind of like a ferris wheel but you were put in this car like thing that had a steering wheel for you to turn while you when up and around. I was to weak to turn it so i would go upside down every time i went to the top. needless to say i did not enjoy that particular ride.
anyways, i just would like to say that looking at your pictures and how it was yesterday just saddens me and it is a shame that this is what has come to be of what i always thought was the greatest amusement park ever.

Other Abandoned Rocky Point sites for your reference
www.insanebunkers.com

www.themeparkpage.com/content/rockypoint/today.htm

(Motts-your shots are still the best)

Also John-Did you know that someone is selling video footage of the park 2005 on Ebay?

Auction catalog lists the house having 8 cars all together.
Documented on various other sites-
1.reptile
2.dracula
3.frankenstein
4. planet of the apes?
5. creature from the black lagoon
6. the mummy? Guessing from image on back
the last two are MIA...
7.the wolfman
8.???

Minor correction: Motts has pictures of three cars - still there were originally more than this.

Ummm....I was there the day of the auction. I was not however standing right there when the House of Horrors was up. Later on, the same day, someone I used to know that was also quite knowledgeable regarding the park said to me that the House of Horrors had been sold. We were both laughing because we knew that it could not be moved.

I have no specific knowledge of what happened to the props inside. I can only speculate. Here are some possibilities:

1. Stolen - there have been many souvenir hunters in the interval subsequent to the parks closing.

2. The new owner took what he could and left the rest. Although the cars are probably the most interesting they were also heavy and attached to the track. There was a special 'trick' to removing them. Without someone to tell them they may not have realized that a certain three foot section of the track was designed to be popped out so that the cars could be worked upon on their underside and/or removed. The cars were also easily damaged by inexperienced operators who might for various reasons try to roll the cars backwards along the track. A big no-no due to the mechanical finger on the underside of the car that acted as the electrical contact point for deliivering electricty to the car and caused the wheels to move. There was at least one car in the gallery here, The Reptile, that was removed from the track. Based on where it was located I suspect that whoever removed it forced it off the track at the bottom of the conveyor belt.

3. Remember Janello? Perhaps he or his family came back and took what they created.

4. I have suspected, but do not know, that the gravestones may have been removed by park employees in the final days. The gravestones had the names of various year round park employees and they may have been intrigued to take the gravestoness that possessed their names.

Motts you had photos of two cars in the gallery - were there more than two cars remaining?

I was able to contact Mr. Picotte regarding the House of Horrors-Halloweenland. He told me that he was one of the organizers of the event, and that no one purchased the house of horrors....
if this is the case, where did all the stuff inside go? John, perhaps you could shed some light on this

Catydid - did you also have a sister that worked there at the same time that you did? Your supervisors would have been PJ, Chris, Craig (not price), Russ...

There was no wooden roller coaster there in the 90s. I suspect that you were visiting Lincoln Park which did have a big white wooden roller coaster.

The Cyclone was Blue, the Corkscrew white. There were roller coasters at the park that were wooden back in the late 60s. Possibly early 70s.

The games company was named MRB Games and is/was based in New Rochelle, NY. MRB stood for Mel, Ronnie and Beatrice. They were contracted by the park to run the games department. They also managed some of the slot machines at Foxwoods and other casinos.

A great story is that when the games commission came through to do an inspection they were reviewing the various games to decide if they were fairly run or not and whether or not they were games of chance. Games of chance were not allowed. Games of skill were the only ones permitted. The inspector was going to nix the milk jug toss where the object was to put a softball through the top of an old time mik jug. Games inspector said it was too difficult and therefore a game of chance - that no one could do it as a developed skill (the clearance on the milk jug top was very very narrow to the size of the ball). The games manager escorting the inspector around disagreed and picked up a softball right on the spot and tossed it directly into a milk jug. The inspector then relented and the game stayed.

....the games manager had never before been successful in tossing the ball and was never able to replicate the shot afterwards...

Part 2: In other words: Yes, an employee did die as I described on the Skyliner...and yes the ride continued to operate, although I believe it was closed the rest of that season.

I doubt that there are any rides hidden on the property. There may be ride parts such as the Skyliner cars that are possibly located in the tunnel. There is also a small possibility that some damaged Cyclone cars that were stored in the bottom of the Shore Dinner hall are still there. It was pretty well documented where most of rides went subsequent to the auction.