Thank you for posting this. I remember The Cyclone at the Long Beach Pike, in the early 50’s. We lived nearby. When I was about 3 or 4, my two older sisters took me there. That may be why I am terrified of heights!
@Super_Chief8 ай бұрын
Tattoo shops on almost every corner, guys at stands betting they can guess your age, and the smell of popcorn, cotton candy, saltwater taffy, and the ocean, all mixed together. And sailors, sailors, and more sailors! For you folks that weren’t here back in those days, you have no idea what you missed! Long Beach has lost a real gem.
@chrisjeffries23222 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing. 💋
@johnallen27713 жыл бұрын
This is where I got my only tattoo as a sailor. And yes, I was drunk. But the tattoo came out great. We used to go down there all the time in the '60s. It was a little run down but we still had a good time. It was still a great place to meet pretty girls. California has more of those than anywhere else.
@Chungustav2 жыл бұрын
yep I got my first tattoo there wjen I turned 18 at Bert Grimm's by Rick Waters.
@saffronskies333 Жыл бұрын
Remember the dish toss? I LOVED that... still have a depression era glass dish ...what memories- sailors walking everywhere- that roller coaster... 😳
@farmerpar3 жыл бұрын
i remember the penny arcades as a child growing up, great memories
@mike975254 жыл бұрын
I rode on that roller coaster when I was a kid, cost 25 cents😂
@thomasgoodwin26483 жыл бұрын
Technically so did I. My Mom was pregnant with me at the time. Sadly I never got the opportunity to ride it again (too short, poor, and/or far away).
@okijima15 Жыл бұрын
Wow, Long Beach looked pretty awesome back then established huge amusement park 🥵 Nothing like nowadays sir
@rvvanlife7 ай бұрын
Thanks Ed, this brought back a lot of memories 👍👍👍👍
@germanirish223 күн бұрын
More for adults ,sailors eveywhere,gritty ,seedy...loved it in '50's,'60's...as a teeny weeny kido..
@georgeking32188 ай бұрын
The roller coaster shut down the year I started working in LB, circa 1968. The Navy was a mainstay in LB, from the early 40's until the mid 90's. When they shut everything and left.
@byronoden27159 күн бұрын
MEMORIES!😍
@lindavick26467 ай бұрын
I remember my friend and I going in that place back in the 70s two black girls had a great time
@johnnyv.5142 Жыл бұрын
The Pike is a fond memory for me as a kid. Especially the Cyclone coaster (I remember hearing it derailed into the ocean once) and the Salt Water Taffy stand!
@user-nc3pt7zc3cАй бұрын
I was a young sailor in the early 60's. Got assigned to a Destroyer at Long Beach Naval Station. The Pike was a hive of all that is Negative and warned by my Fellow Shipmates to stay away from it.
@feloniousbutterfly Жыл бұрын
It's a tragedy so many of these wonderful places have come and gone.
@sarahhuston33262 жыл бұрын
I rode on the roller coaster too a long time ago in my teens and I'm 74 now been many moons ago!!!
@brianhardy59266 ай бұрын
I'm 78, and I remember going to the Pike with a high school club from San Bernardino in about 1962. Played pinball incessantly, rode some rides and then rode the Cyclone over and over. I remember the first time I rode it (first big coaster) standing, waiting for the cars to come in and the scaffolding of the coaster is creaking and swaying, and I'm getting real nervous. I didn't chicken out, got on, and attempted to go down the first big drop with my hands in the air. As the car went down, I felt myself rising. I immediately grabbed the bar and held on the rest of the ride. The guy sitting next to me laughed and told me I turned white as a ghost! It was so much fun, we couldn't stop doing it over and over.
@melissacolver8550 Жыл бұрын
Why tear all this great history down. I can't wait til they tear down what's down there now. Lol
@jeanbeck3962 Жыл бұрын
There were always lots of sailors walking the Pike. Locker clubs where they kept their civies. I was a Navy wife living on Pine , a short walk to the Pike and beach.
@grahamhill63408 ай бұрын
In 1967, the final episode of THE FUGITIVE tv show had its climatic scene filmed at the PIKE, where Richard Kimble finally catches up with and fights the infamous One-Armed Man!@
@luckyzert3 ай бұрын
Actually Pacific Ocean Park (P.O.P.), a little further north around Venice and Santa Monica - built on piers.
@grahamhill63403 ай бұрын
@@luckyzert I believe you're RIGHT... always getting those two parks confused, Pacific Ocean Park THE FUGITIVE and numerous other credits, IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD the Pike -thank you!
@luckyzert3 ай бұрын
@@grahamhill6340 Ah, yes...Mad (x4) World is one of my favorite films. I actually set out to find the Big W back in the 70's. I found it down in Portuguese Bend in the Palos Verde Peninsula. At that time 3 of the 4 palm trees still existed...unfortunately, now they are all gone.
@grahamhill63403 ай бұрын
@@luckyzert I was more fortunate, I actually was there at that private home some 40 years ago when two of the original palms were still standing... I visited many of the locations. My late friend Carey Loftin was the main stuntman on the film getting paid the same $100,000 as the stars. Carey drives the car in the opening, kicks the bucket, doubles Terry Thomas and others, a true HOLLYWOOD legend. I got to meet quite a few cast and crew, and when I started at Universal in the 1970's, where half the film was shot, much of the backlot was still like you saw in the firetruck/fire-escape scenes!
@scottcampbell39403 ай бұрын
@@grahamhill6340 Excellent! I actually went up to the private residence and knocked. The were quite nasty! "Carey Loftin" was one of the best stunt guys ever...and a pretty funny guy. And we must also give credit to Frank Tallman who did the flying stunts - putting that Beechcraft through the Coca-cola sign...incredible. Because of CGI, people today don't really appreciate things that are done in real life.
@lorrainecortes7296 Жыл бұрын
The rollercoaster was fun!
@johnfritts7910 Жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO ED !... ESPECIALLY LIKED THE MUSIC...NOTHING BEATS A WURLITZER! I WILL WATCH THIS AGAIN.
@longbeachhippy6942 жыл бұрын
All gone now just for some places to eat and shop.. so sad.. the whole LongBeach shore has no boardwalk like Venice, no amusement park like Santa Monica or LongBeach own past "Pike" , just waveless beaches, trash from LA River, a deteriorating queen Mary, and a dog beach. 🤔
@carolinasahagun6297 Жыл бұрын
We have the type of ppl residing in long beach to thank for . Long beach used to be such an amazing place. Now it's all gone, because down town long beach is full of delinquency. Investors rather invest their money else where . Where is is safe to do so. I hope some day long beach can become at least half of what it used to be in the past .
@Doll6765 ай бұрын
They need to bring it back all these empty lots that would be very nice
@susie1548 ай бұрын
I was there in '72
@jameshurt61167 ай бұрын
Had a Jewish girl, Steph I think, went down there to ride that ancient wooden roller coaster. She jumped on the first car; I steeled myself as we pulled to the top. Tried to be brave but that first drop I knew we were about to die...
@cadillacbluez2 жыл бұрын
Long Beach was better then
@Doll6765 ай бұрын
When I went there it wasn’t all this going on some of that had gone
@johnking62529 ай бұрын
I always kinda thought they made the pike so sailors had something to do on liberty, and I guess they kinda did but us kids loved it to, you didn't have to wait for the carnival to get around to your town. Miss it , I guess, the childhood. ✌️. Thx.
@edgarsanchez68762 жыл бұрын
Guy caught lacking at 3:37
@MountainFisher10 ай бұрын
When it was built the Cyclone was the biggest coaster in the world and the only double track roller coaster to boot. In the 1950s I was 4 or 5 taken on one of those "Dark" rides with scary stuff popping up and swinging down at me. Scared me so bad I wouldn't go on anything else, I was terrorized. Not the kind of ride you take a little kid on, would of been less scary if they had taken me on the Cyclone which I wanted to go on. They said it was too scary.
@johnnyjames71399 ай бұрын
Sometimes riders of the Racer were thrown out and died.
@peteguevara86067 күн бұрын
Great post but the music is torturous! 😂
@svbarr8 ай бұрын
More tattoos were given to drunk Sailors in a week than any modern Hipster Tattoo place in Hollywood does in a month, or two.Of course 80% ofbthe old Sailor tattoos said a ship's name or MOM.
@NathanPugs2 жыл бұрын
The video is nice but the music is terrible I got a headache from listening to it
@BradThePitts3 жыл бұрын
2:13 Looking at the vehicles in the photo, it's late 60's to early 70's. I thought that round apartment building in the background was much, much newer.
@gailthornberry72692 жыл бұрын
Bloody Mary bar
@blackbluestudio63389 ай бұрын
My dad was born in 35. Born and raised in LA, told me he has seen Navy guys bail out of the coaster at the end of the pier and dive into the sea. It’s a great story but can anyone confirm this. My dad had a ton of stories and most of them true or un confirmed. Anyone, Buehler?
@SoapinTrucker10 ай бұрын
Come on man! SMFH
@56cadd3 жыл бұрын
Muted at 0.03
@mr.majestic87132 жыл бұрын
Same here! Terrible music selections.
@feloniousbutterfly Жыл бұрын
Seriously the most feral rendition of 'Entry of the Gladiators' I've ever heard.
@RWernsing3 жыл бұрын
Really irritating music
@TN-pw2nl2 жыл бұрын
The rides all smelled like vomit. That’s how I remember it.