1,034 Comments for Rocky Point Amusement Park

There is no federal agency regulating amusement parks. Nor is there any federal rule that if someone gets significantly hurt or even killed on a ride the ride must be dismantled. Some states do have inspectors but what one state chooses to do has nothing to do with what another may choose. As a result most regulation comes by way of the insurance companies. They may simply refuse to insure a particular ride after a certain point. The law of a particular state may require insurance. Even if a particular state's insurance rules do not mandate insurance coverage (I suspect every state requires it now) an amusement park owner would be insane to operate a park without it.

All amusement parks have deaths. This includes super-parks like Disneyland/Disneyworld. Anytime you have humans using heavy-duty machinery you have the opportunity for people to get hurt. Be it a car, train, backhoe, plane, trash-compactor or amusement park ride. When parks are open long enough things do happen. RP was open over 145 years and had more than one incident.

Some amusement parks do have policies regarding the liquidation of rides in the event of a major accident. This does not mean disassembling or destroying the ride. It usually means reselling the ride to another park. Six Flags Chicago for instance has a policy that if a ride has significant bad publicity they get rid of the ride. Six Flags freefall which was built for them (at the time there were only 10 in the world) had an accident where a car fell back down the lift and people got hurt. The freefall was then sold to Rocky Point and is now in Ohio.

Someone did attempt to surf down the big hill on the log flume ride. They made it to the bottom of the hill and, when the log hit the slow down brake, got flung over the front of the log and run over. Logs were 600lbs empty. He did survive due to the heroic work of a crew chief of the ride who stormed through the trough and pulled him to safety before the 2nd log came along. The newspapers got the story wrong though. So...JMayoh if you read that particular story in your research I assure you there was no 'lifeguard' who swam through the trough and saved the guy. That part was totally fabricated by the newspaper. You may be interested to know that the crew chief in question was also one of the artists who re-drew the monsters on the House of Horrors ride several years later. His name was Robert Cubellis.

They also had an embarrassing incident where they posed a lot of people on the log flume deck for a photo-op and the deck collapsed.

someone needs to go steal/save that sign. You could sell it where I live for a thousand bucks.

But the picture is cool.anyways :)

I think that is "satanic". naked woman is an altar in their rituals..

This is a great shot -- what looks like filigree work at the top and the bottom. Kinda sad, tho, I remember riding the carousel at Coney Island when I was a kid.

as an fyi, the games company at rocky point had run games at lincoln park too. I think some of the chintzy prizes we had when I worked there were left over from lincoln park./
I kid you not.
ANd yep, there are probably coyotes there. there always were in that area.

somewhere i have one or two rolls of negatives from this park that i took in 1994. I still have a few prints on my wall. don't know that they're all that great though.

omg...the clamcakes!!!

this was once my favorite ride for the "cheese factor". eventually it was replaced by the "mindbender" at Playland.
wonder if that's still there...

oh, yeah.
I can neither confirm nor deny my involvement in anything.
Ever.
: )

craig price, btw, didn't strike one as a serial killer when you met him.
I worked here between freshman and sophomore year.
yep- i was a carny.
well, a game-chick actually.
I'd be willing to bet that many of the people i worked with were guilty of a lot of really perverse and creepy shit.
I know for a fact about some pretty tapped stuff former co-workers of mind did during that time and afterwards.

God. this ride was never scary. not even when I was a kid. Made a good place to get a little amorous (in a jr high sort of way) with a date, and also to sneak a few puffs....

yes i do hear the twilight zone music but just faintly (im probraly going insane though) and you have to admit it is some what intiresting to read thease little sorta convos

My mistake i meant to say the kiddie coaster was torn down for the corkscrew...

Lynne is in rare form today!!!! :-)

I like it ;-)

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