I miss it sooooooo much...the 80's were our time...LOVE....it's really hard for it to sink in that we're now "vintage" lol

@JamesSmith123456789

Жыл бұрын

And lots and lots of drugs💊

I can still smell the popcorn. Thank you , Brings back so many memories. '' It ain't there no more ''

These are some of my favorite rides as a kid. I loved going to the beach, it was the best amusement park ever! Too bad it closed right after this, for me this was THE place to be.

I spent a lot of time there. Some of these images I haven’t remembered in 30 years. I really miss this place. What a shame it’s gone.

I can only wish that this still existed, This looks so amazing💜 ty for sharing it with us!

Wow this brings back so many memories! I could remember when my parents use to bring us on the weekends. I remembered a huge arcade.

I grew up just off of Robert e Lee and elysian fields just down the street from PB. I was there so much it was like my second home. thanks for the post it reminded me of some great memories

I miss that place. Almost every time we would go to New Orleans to visit my grandma and my cousins out there we would make a run to the Beach and try to get on every ride before closing.

Thanks Steve Shelley for posting these memories in our Facebook Group. These memories are very special to all of us. Thank You So Much! Matthew Dillon

My dad was an outboard motor mechanic, and we once took our Doctor's boat he took care of (in 1965), from his West End Park Marina boathouse to the beach for the day, riding the rides..

so glad someone has this now i can share!

I was like 4 or 5 years old last time I went. I remember i couldn't get on the Zephyr, but i did all the kid's stuff. Merry go round, Bumper cars, going through the tunnel on them ape looking carts with my dad, going down the slide on the sack

Wonderful memories Thanks !

Been there many times. Love all the lights on the rides. Great place. Great memories.

Awesome video! Thanks for posting! My Dad made the steel for the Rajin Cajun and we kids got to "try it out" before the public did. We felt so special! ;)

My Dad work there when I was a baby. I have pics of me with my Dad there.

the best childhood memories! Thanks for sharing!

thanks for the share! I loved this place-wish my folks had given me more money and taken me here more often! Loved the arcade most! The funky mechanical items from decades back. Total fantasies. Laughter-childhood joyful memories. Recall the rides? Love the goofy Midway with crazy games and prizes! And loved the spooky stuff.

i lived across the road on bass street. there will never be nothing close to this place.it was a money maker.i can't understand why the close it love from Alabama.👌👍😇maga

Wow, the memories...

What I love that in Bumper Cars, you might drive around a bit, and say "how ya doing" for a while, the LOOK OUT." Oh, and having an electrically energized grid ceiling for these cars isn't a hazard at all.

So everything in this video no longer exists? The looping coaster was moved to Great Escape in NY in 1984 or 1985. It's a real crying shame that classic parks had to close. In PA we have some old classic style parks still operating. Knoebel's, Kennywood, Hershey, Waldameer, etc. And maybe Dorney Park even though Cedar Fair modernized it. The people who want to buy the shuttered Six Flags park formerly known as Jazzland want to rename it Jazzland again and build new versions of the Laff in the Dark and Haunted House in the Pontchartrain Beach section. Laff would be in the Jocco's building, and Haunted House where an arcade and thrill ride were. Some stuff from the old Pontchartrain Beach park were stored in a public park indoors and were auctioned off to individuals like a Haunted House car, Egyptian coffin from the Haunted House and other stuff. There is a photo of a Haunted House car restored in someone's front yard on the internet. They were themed to coffins with reapers on the backs. Ocean City, MD has a classic seaside park with a Haunted House ride built in 1964 by Bill Tracy, it has coffin shaped cars. Trimper's Rides.

@900stx7

3 жыл бұрын

Pontchartrain Beach sold and moved the Galaxy roller coaster to Fun Fair park in Baton Rouge to make room for the new Ragin Cajun Roller coaster. Both parks closed and now both coasters are now at Blue Bayou Water Park off I-10 in B.R.

Also, I was "sick" or something the day this happened and I missed it all, including the art school/architecture school "field trips", to this grande finale. It's demise in the end was too much for me I guess.

Back when things made sense

This was my first job. I worked there form 1979 to 1983. I worked the last night. I'm the guy operating a ride called the bug.

@robkrasinski6217

6 жыл бұрын

Howling Mad Murdock That looked like such a cool beachside park. The Haunted House looked so creepy. Do you have any memory of the inside if you rode it? I heard there was a log flume there, where was it? I read Indiana Beach got it. Ragin’ Cajun steel coaster went to Great Escape in NY in 1984 and was painted different colors and renamed Steamin’ Demon. I was never to New Orleans in my life, or Louisiana for that matter but I like researching old parks and defunct parks. I guess after they closed they sold off whatever rides they could, and the ones that couldn’t easily be moved were scrapped. Like the haunted rides, Zephyr roller coaster, etc. I have a newer game called Planet Coaster by Frontier and I’m attempting to build this park in it. Were there any rides on the beach side of the midway besides the Ragin’ Cajun? Where was the Musik Express? Someone made a list of the rides with a diagram showing where they were but I believe they missed some. It’s on a PB site with historical photos and stuff.

@DeeperDave1

4 жыл бұрын

I was there the last day, didn't Iron Butterfly play live?

check out the clothes and the hair styles............great post !

@scootontheair6765

Жыл бұрын

I know, right?

Just think - everybody in this video that's still living today (11/22/2021) is 38 years older now...life is so short ..everything, including us, passes through this life in the blink of an eye...

The Musik Express!!

SI remember it well.

I can still smell the popcorn.

@ShelleyVideo

2 жыл бұрын

I always remember the smell of popcorn and cotton candy as you walked into the main entrance.

Back in '81 or '82 I went there with some friends of mine. I remember the ride - I think it was called Rock Mountain, but I'm not sure - that was like the cups and saucer ride at Disneyland except in was inside a large white rock with loud music blaring and flashing lights. Some people have said ppl would throw up in there and you'd end in sitting in their puke, LOL, but that didn't happen to us.

@dustykeele

5 жыл бұрын

It was called "Hard Rock".

When it was near closing time for the night and the lines were not long we would rode the zypher and get off and run back around and ride it again and again

This is funny AF!!!

Video recorders really sucked in those days the video looks out of focus 📸

I'd that Scoot??

@ShelleyVideo

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the MC on stage was Scoot in the Morning, back in 1983.

Thank you ma'am...just before the Crack epidemic exploded and destroyed my home town...sorry not trying to be negative...just nostalgia I guess...