grew up in New Orleans and used to go there all the time, wonderful memories! thanks for posting.

Glad you enjoyed it. I had some great times there as a kid. Wish they could bring it back.

Thanks for the blast from the past, great time and great memories.

I grew up in Kenner, La. and went to Pontchartrain Beach several times. I think the first time I went to PB was in the late 1970's. I loved the roller coasters and everything else! Thanks for showing us great memories!

I loved it when my mother and father would take my two sisters & I to go swimming there .. such a glamorous and magical world it was to me. I loved the haunted house and the house of mirrors most of all. I remember on the last day of school, we would get free entrance. such wonderful memories.

My dystopian joy? In 2008 as a UNO student, waking up at 5 in the morning to walk up and down what is now left of P. Beach - taking in the sheer thrill of urban decay - wallowing in the tragic fate of a once joyful place. Knowing that I was born to late to have ever been touched by its touted pervasiveness. All thats left is sand, litter - such ecstacy.

It was a special place. Kids don't have something like that today. Too bad.

New Orleans needs this again.

I was singing along as soon as it started. great memories!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH I was born in late 87. I missed out on this.

Hauntingly beautiful yet eerie Filled with mixed emotions Happiness,nostalgia and sadness

wow so many awesome good memories so glad i was able to experience this as a kid!!! Thanks for posting this!!! The rajun cajun was dismanltled and became the screamin demon in new york i believe . my favorite ride was the Zephyr oh how id love to rise that ole girl again .

It's great to see this - I went here a lot as a kid and lived only about 10 minutes away.

Well…I haven’t heard that jingle for about 60 years. 🙂 Thanks!

Loved hearing this theme song again after so many years!!

Spent many summers there. Good memories.

OMG! I love this. Brought back many memories. Thanks. I would like to see one on Lincoln Beach out in the East as well.

Sure was a good place to go to. I was born in New Orleans in 1950. Went to the beach several times over the years. Sure is sad that it's gone. Video brings back some good memories.

@aajmw

3 жыл бұрын

It was a magical place.

It was a special place for me when I was growing up. Too bad there is nothing like it for kid there these days.

Just took pics of lighthouse today.. I love the history

WOW!!! Now there are some great memories of what growing up in New Orleans was all about!!! Summers at the beach were a part of life in the 60's....

My favorite rides in the 60s were the sailplanes, also the Zephyr. We loved when they began "P.O.P." or "PAY ONE PRICE". For $4.00 they would stamp POP on the back of your hand and you could ride anything and everything as much as you wanted. However the lines to the Zephyr were long and they made you get off after each ride to stand in line again.

I saw the very top of the Zephyr with the sign in a small park in Kenner just off of WIlliams Blvd by the airport. If you want to see it again, it's right there.

I used to love the Wild Mouse, the back wheels would leave the track when my cousin, who was lighter than me sat behind me!

Oh wow, I will never forget those childhood memories

Really makes me sad...N.O. slowly started to decline during the 70's...Katrina was the nail in the coffin...but I still have my memories (and Pontchartrain Beach was one of them) to remind me how great it was to grow up in N.O.!!

Great to see the names of all of those rides. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I would swim there as a kid when the pools were open. I remember the white sand beach that was man made but looked natural. Fun times. New Orleans needs something like that again....

There was supposed to be a big condo development going up but that project fell through and the park and all it's wonderful rides were razed for nothing. I also have many fond memories of the 'Beach. Never had the guts to try the Zephyr or the Wild Maus but did go on the Log Flume and the Trabant, as well as the SkyRide. Great days...

I remember back in 1960 on the last day of school we all get on the Bus an ride down to the beach to go swimming in the pool and spend 4 hours riding the rides. Also that was my first date with a girl.

Glad that you enjoyed it. I wish it were still there.

Many memories there, thanks for posting!!

The safari ride with a poor animatronic head in quicksand...used to scare the shit out of me as a kid.

Never went there but sure remember those commercial and that song - lived there from 1967 to 1970.

Really sad all of the good stuff is gone thanks to certain group of people.

O Yaaaaaa!!!!!! I remember

@AngelleSL So glad that you enjoyed it. Good memories from my childhood.

Sad that we can't keep ANYTHING worthwhile in New Orleans....

Nostalgia my ass. My parents and aunts have memories of being turned away and not allowed into this beach. Not because they were criminals or on drugs or delinquent, but because they are black. Our family used to go to Lincoln Beach, which was closed before I was born. We used to sneak in past the barracades and fences. Now it's is all washed up since Georges back in 1998.

I booked Fats Domino for "The Last Ride" on Sept 24, 1983. Hated to see it close!

Thanks.

@AngelleSL The reason it wasnt condos, was so it could give us LOCALS some entertainment and something to do with our families in our HOMETOWN. Not for a bunch of out-of-towners who thought it should be condos for them to come and experience an "a la Nouvelle Orleans style condo".

Like everything else with good intentions in New Orleans GONE and never to return. It truly is saddening that New Orleans cannot hold on to anything worth while for its residents. Soon the statues will be gone. What next? Might as well take the Saints away too they don't perform worth a darn.

Memories!!!

i wanna go to the 80s so bad

@emergencyexit16 White contributions to New Orleans culture: Mardi Gras, Parades, Jambalaya, Beignets, Chicory coffee, Shrimp Creole, Partly of red beans and rice, partly of Gumbo, pralines, Beads and Dabloons, the most of the architecture, masquerade balls, where'yat dialect, muffalettas, stuffed peppers and baked macaroni, pecan pie, St. Joseph's day alter, riverboats, words like neutral ground and making groceries, catholicism, words like earl for oil, creole mustard, dirty rice, crawfish etc

You can see the lighthouse in some of those clips. It's still standing Go to the end of Elysian Fields. There is the lighthouse, standing out in the middle of an effing FIELD, far from the Lake, on UNO property. It's a historical landmark (it was the old Milneburg Lighthouse), but it's just rotting away. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before UNO tears it down. SO SAD.

@emergencyexit16 More White New Orleans contributions: New Orleans French Bread, Po-Boys, horse and buggies, the trinity seasonings (onions, bell pepper, celery), king cake, dixieland style of Jazz, boiled crawfish, hurricane cocktails, sazarac cocktails, shrimp remoulade, card games like bourre', mardi gras krewes, all the great restaurants of the French Quarter, slang like ya'momma'an'em and yeah you right, the most famous French slang-Laissez les bon temps rouler, the fleur de lis symbol, etc

Great memories. The Zephyr was the best....

Wasn’t born when this was closed but this is interesting nonetheless.

I sure do. It made you feel like you were falling off the track because the wheeles were in the rear. Scary but fun.

I worked there around 1979, doing the dolphin show. Anyone out there with video fo the dolphin show??? I never took any video, but would LOVE to see that to show my kids!!!

The owners got an offer for the land. Condos were supposed to be built on the site. That never happened. I think part of that land is being used by UNO but the children of the New Orleans area no longer have Pontchartrain Bech in their lives. Too bad. They don't even have Six Flags post Katrina.

It was torn down for a condo development that never happened. I understand that some of the space is being used by UNO....

@IslenoGutierrez No, I am from Opelousas, but I did grow up going to new orleans quite regularly as I have lots of famliy there. I have feeling you're not from New Orleans either judging by that garb you were talking. You know, anglos said that islenos and cajuns were wild too! It just surprises how one formerly oppressed group is so willing to believe anything they hear. I get along very well with cajuns and they tend to like blacks and try to be fair...don't know about islenos though.

@emergencyexit16 Are you even from here? You referred to the French Quarter as "the Quarter", which most locals say "the quarters" with an s on the end. That seems to be a give away.

Why did it close!?!?

@aajmw

2 жыл бұрын

The family had an offer for the land and they sold it. A big loss. Now there is talk of building the sand beach back near the area.

@IslenoGutierrez OH, and just so you know, in the 1920's, the blacks, italians, and Irish got along well in the quarter. They were friends and nursed each others children. They got along just fine. It wasn't until Jim Crow really started to set in that Blacks were all of sudden wild. Please read a book. Your ignorance is just astounding.

@tdubblz Just because it wasn't wonderful nostalgia for you, you don't need to come here with all that negativity. Why don't you go to the "Lincoln Beach" youtube channel and comment on. Of course it was a Whites only park, so yes, your family would've gotten turned away. They never should have tried to enter, because they knew it was a White park. They had their own park that was a Black only park. They should have stayed there and made their good memories, instead of trying to enter ours.

@emergencyexit16 Lol, you are not even from New Orleans! Oh, and yes I am from New Orleans, I was born in New Orleans at Charity hospital and raised in the 8th ward in the Marigny, 700 block of Mandeville St. just a couple of blocks from the levee. My family is originally from the 9th Ward when it was White people, before the Blacks took it over. Also, yes, I am an Isleno and proud of it. It doesn't matter what Anglos said about us or the Cajuns, nobody is as wild as the Blacks.

@tdubblz Look man, you came on here with your negative comments trying to mess up our good memories of Pontchartrain Beach. You seem like your actions were purposely done. There is no ugly truth, we had our beach you had yours. But you chose to come here and start trouble. I don't have issues, you do. I didn't come to this channel talking about negativity, you did. Also, your attitude does not affect me, so you are just wasting your energy getting mad. I suggest you don't leave comments here.

@emergencyexit16 We are just like the Spanish version of the Cajuns, Louisianians whose ancestors came here from the Canary Islands of Spain. I have nothing against Blacks, I just think they have alot of crime and are wild and have dangerous neighborhoods. I know not all are bad, dangerous, or wild, but a large percentage are. As far as Islenos, you probably don't even know any Islenos. We were never oppressed.

to make this short i totally agree with you. the blacks had their chance, now it is time for the whites and any other part of the melting pot of new orleans, to take her back. no questions or discussion about it. RODNEY THIBODEAUX, A NEW ORLEANIANS AT HEART, BUT LIVING IN SAN ANTONIO,TX. HOPE TO BE BACK IN SOME PART OF LA. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

@williambabin6836

5 жыл бұрын

what in the world are you talking about????

@IslenoGutierrez Wildness or your perception HAPPENS IN ALL GROUPS. IT'S MORE COMMON AMONGST THE POOR. Go to countries where there are no blacks, GUESS WHAT! THERE'S STILL CRIME..It's like I am talking to someone with the logic of a 5 year old.

hmm I wonder how segregated it was :/

@emergencyexit16 Also, you said without Blacks New Orleans would be boring? Um, Mardi Gras is a White festival, Mardi Gras has more going on than most Black cities in the United States, period! So that claim is false. Apparently New Orleans culture is a hybrid mix of French, Spanish, Italian, African, German, Irish, Native American, English, American south, both Spanish Caribbean and French Caribbean, as well as some traditions from Latin America all mixed into one big pot.

@emergencyexit16 Yes, people do get along in New Orleans, and they did back in the day too, but it wasn't always peaches and cream. You say poorer groups tend to have more crime, but we didn't have all that crime back in the day in the 8th ward and 9th ward when it was White. I'm just stating fact, not prejudice. Apparently the Black community has to fix itself, so it can become known to be respected, not violence, crime, drugs, and danger. By the way I don't have a low IQ, lol, u don't know me.

@emergencyexit16 How dare you say New Orleans is Black culture, it is more White culture, but it is a mix of the two. I dare you to name as many Black contributions to New Orleans as I just named. Also, if you try, I have about 30 more, I can post. So you are making an ignorant comment from what you see on tv and in the city today because it's majority Black now, but 30 years ago it was majority White since the beginning. Whites have had the most influence on New Orleans culture, not Blacks.

@emergencyexit16 Lol, New Orleans culture is not Black culture. That statement alone shows me you not from here. Whites were the majority in New Orleans at a rate of 70% to 30% Blacks for 230 years out of 280 years. New Orleans culture is a mixed culture, not White, not Black. New Orleans is more than just Jazz, second lines, Mardi Gras Indians, and Jazz Funerals, which are the Black contributions. Most of New Orleans culture comes from Whites. I will give you examples in my next post.

@IslenoGutierrez Furthermore, NEW ORLEANS CULTURE IS ESSENTIALLY BLACK CULTURE. Without blacks, new orleans would be any other boring city.