Crystal Beach

[@ericfellner3524]

Just awesome. My park!! It should have NEVER closed! Darien Lake and Fantasy Island put it out of business, those parks are nothing compared to what Crystal Beach was...heaven on Earth.

[@peterrivney552]

Wasn't just the other parks it was the money hungry for the land and building new homes that destroyed the park... Started going there as a youngster with my parents and the John Deere annual picnics and kept on till closing it was a shame...

[@bobsit1945]

From Niagara Falls NY now living in the Florida panhandle ( Pensacola first now Panama City) since retiring from the US Navy in 1988. Use to go there all the time while growing up. Loved the Sugar Waffles

[@Stecbine]

So well done, thanks for this! I really miss this park.

[@ChuckyT33]

So much fun. So many good times both as a child and as a teenager. Crystal Beach was a real jewel and I am so glad to have been able to experience it.

[@FranBushardt]

Spent Many Friday Nights at Crystal Beach while Camping Many years at Nearby Pleasant Beach Camp Grounds! Fortunately the Suckers and Waffle Cakes are STILL AROUND to keep those memories alive!!

[@denniscole173]

Thanks for sharing. As a kid from Northern Ireland in the 80s, i spent my summers with a family from Buffalo who had a summer home on Point Abino road. Spent many a day "at the beach". Great days.

[@kellieevans9545]

Miss this place so many great memories

[@warrencleversy2773]

Blame Walt Disney World and Cedar Point for this parks DEATH.

[@mikevisca6561]

What a shame...this park should never of closed...with its age and beauty it was a historic site

[@MrAtomicDon]

Goddamn! Take me back to the 80s! 2020 sucks ass!

[@chrisparker7214]

We did stay with you but you never stayed with us😢

[@williamday8098]

good job of preserving a little romance - we just bought a cottage in Crystal Beach December 2018. It is coming back slowly

[@wayneaitcheson8775]

The owners destroyed the park

[@susank8371]

to bad it didn't stay open another 100 yrs. , that would have been perfect.

[@bobsquires4521]

Was that an old standard on piano at the end of this film or did Sir Paul McCartney just use it re-naming it 'Junk' on his first solo album in the early '70's, the one with the cherries all over the cover, or maybe this promo used his "Junk" for their modern promo at that time. I couldn't help but notice the tune. Please forgive my ignorance, but does anyone know?

[@bbutton]

That is indeed the Paul McCartney composed 'Junk'.

[@kmach844]

Another 100 hundred years....ain't happening. They built condos and a gated community is now there. I've got a place at Sherkston around the corner.

[@jason.3011]

Lol

[@djjb420]

Great Memories!! We always had so much fun there & so many good times & the memories both as a young boy & as a teenager. Crystal Beach was an Amazing & Fun place to be.. I'm so glad to have been able to be there to experience it. So Sad it is Gone.. :'( R.I.P Crystal Beach Amusement Park :'(

[@djjb420]

Brenda i hope this put a SMILE on your Beautiful Face & i'm so happy you ENJOY IT!!

[@bingovegas4867]

This is the best video and description of Crystal Beach I've ever seen. P.S. not sure I want to eat your TAKE OOS? MR. ANNOUNCER.lol.

[@carryyourcross6787]

Thank you God bless in these dark days ✝️❤️🙏

[@sjtom57]

So many memories watching this, both happy and sad.

Ahhhe THE BEACH. Crystal Beach is in our DNA. For the first 7 summers of my life, I spean all day, every day there. My family ran concessions in the basemant under the ballroom. There was a checkroom, an archery range, there were bowling alleys, and a billiard area. As a little boy, I had the run of the place. I remember being baby sat by pinboys, and cafeteria ladies. All the emplyees knew each other and stuck together like a family. Everybody looked out for each other. The park would be just packed every day. It was as if you were in another world. Then, later on, when we got a little older, it was of course the best place to get high and meet girls. Smokin joints while on the skyride. Being really amuzingly stoned and riding The Comet was always a great deal of fun.

[@lagartogrande1908]

Ahhh. The Beach. What great memories.

[@erikluyten2070]

you could ride the commet and when it came to the top you could see big fish swimming in the watter

[@123Elvis1]

I remember the last time I rode the Comet it wasn’t long before the park closed, and I remember from the top of that first hill I could see a family of raccoons below.😂

[@greg33770]

the good ole days !

[@MrBROTHERFELDER]

When was this? The place started to deteriorate in the mid 70s.

[@jeffreyg4626]

We lived in Buffalo, NY and our parents took us every summer. Nice memories. Great ice cream. Great suckers which mom would buy on our way out.

[@jaimeracey1976]

my dad took us there as kids right up til it closed my first year in high school. his local plumbers pipe fitters union summer party was there once. even before my cousin Michael was born I rember scaring his mother by jumping out at her in the fun house and riding the pirate ship with her sister Maureen. I bought my first cottage there on Derby and renovated it for profit in 2005 / 06.

[@maryjb55]

Really enjoyed your video. I remember going to Crystal Beach as a kid when Inco had its company picnics. Then I got to work there for one summer as a teenager. After that went every year with our kids until it closed. It was great. Thanks for taking us down memory lane.

[@craigpritchard9277]

Nice. Had a season pass when I was a kid in the 80's. Never got sick of going there.

[@jimmy59ca2001]

thanks, what a great video.

[@jodyroy5222]

This video was amazing! So many great memories!!! If I could turn back time.... My dad worked at Union Carbide and had their annual party here from the time I was a small kid until it closed when I was in high school. I remember the first time I was finally tall enough to ride the comet 😀

[@garygraml7976]

As a kid my parents would take us there and as a teenager I would take my dates there, one of the rides was a boat that went thru a dark tunnel , it was a tunnel of love does anyone know what it was called?

[@usmgreen1]

Thank You!.... for this was my first ride on a rollercoaster in 1969

[@eileendipasquale1298]

My favorite of all was the rare blue wolf on their merry go round. So unique, rode it all the time.

[@jason.3011]

Miss crystal beach sooo much wnet as a kid

[@123Elvis1]

Anyone know what year this video was made? It seems like around 1980.

[@lunaprk]

D. James Noordyk around 1984. I got it from the park at the time.

[@debrapopp8735]

Love this! Thank you for sharing this with me!

[@gerryderenda6388]

Ty, ty. An awesome video.

[@paullofberg292]

This is the best one I have seen so far!

[@vanseventy]

A lot of this park looks just like Cedar Point. Buildings,uniforms,rides. I bet the same people made both parks including the Crystal Beach in Vermillion Ohio which closed I think in the early 60’s. Uncanny. Thanks for this video!

[@rmille69]

wow, I want to go. :-)

[@clarkhoughtling]

I remember going there as a kid once every Summer as a special event. I lived in Kenmore, NY, and during the summer we stayed in a cottage at Sugar Loaf Farm in Port Colborne. I used to look forward to gettting my report card and taking it to Loblaws grocery store as they gave you free ride tickets based on how well you did in school. And just think, but then there were primarily three larger amusement parks (at least as I recall) in the NE U.S., Coney Island, Cedar Point, and our beloved Crystal Beach. After leaving the WNY area, I moved to upstate NY, where the last owner of Cyrstal Beach, Charley Woods, bought an amusement park in Queensbury, NY (where I lived for 18 years) called The Great Escape (formerly Story Town, now Six Flags). He was "nice enough" to move the Comet to The Great Escape, so the first roller coaster that I ever went on was now less than a mile from my home. Great memories!

[@tjfreak]

Clark Houghtling We did too it was a big deal to me..scary ..I was 5 or so everything seemed so big..we were near Green Acres elem, after moving to Amherst 1970, the report cards went to Bells & Tops.I think our family outings were spent for the most part in Canada except Ellicott creek state park & Chestnut ridge park for picnics..do you happen to remember the slot car track place on Brighton ? Loblaws..Captain Kirk used to do ads for them..my mother shopped @ Super Duper.

[@clarkhoughtling]

Tjfreak I do remember the slot car track place on Brighton and I used to love to do there! I wonder if any of those type places are still around?

[@tjfreak]

Clark Houghtling Brighton Pharmacy is & the Library they both look to be in slightly different locations,there was a (Roto) carwash by there..I've been in Illinois since 77 & haven't been back there much..I saw that that Navy Jet is still near there,tok em 50 years to gate it off..cause kids including me used to climb on it,any way take it easy.