Adventurers Inn, Flushing NY, Once Upon A Time There Was A Place Called
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2013
- Adventurers Inn was an amusement park in Flushing NY just off the Whitestone Expressway on Linden Place, it existed from the 1950's into the late 1970's.
In the 1950's and 60's it was called Adventure Park and had just a handful of rides with a miniature golf course. It was run by individual ride operators.
During the 1960's new owner's took over and expanded the the amusement park. They added large rides like the Batman Ride, Flight To Mars, The Rotor, The Toboggan and Bumper Cars. A few of the rides were left overs from the 1964 Worlds Fair. The park went by different names over the years (Adventures Park, Great Adventure Park) but it is best known as (Adventurers Inn).
In the early 1970's New York City decided it wanted to turn the property into an industrial park. The city began publicizing complaints made by Mitchell Gardens / Flushing residents, in an effort to get the park closed down. The city condemned Adventurers Inn in 1973, but it stayed partially open until 1978. During that time it suffered a fire, a park shooting and the renewed efforts by the city and neighbors to shut it down.
The game room/arcade of Adventurers Inn stayed open for a few more years into the mid 1980's after the amusement park portion had finally been closed. Where the arcade once stood there is now a parking lot and a Toys R Us and Multiplex stand where the amusement park once stood.
Though it exists now only in my fond childhood memories and that of many other NYC residents, I'm glad that "once upon a time " there was a place called Adventurers Inn.
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CREDIT: Bill Brent- www.bbrent.com/gallery/ad_inn.htm, Places That Are No More, Google Image, Thomas Byrne
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EVERY time I watch this film, I think back to when I was there in it's heyday...I can picture myself on each of these rides...in the arcade...eating a hotdog....hours of fun with family and friends...really was an incredible time to be alive....
My uncle sent me this video from somebody else beautiful memories , lived in college point. Those were the days life was so simple then New Yorkers that live back then, don't live there anymore but I am proud to say I am a New Yorker . God bless everybody 💓
The Good Old Days,I wish that I could Turn Back The Hands of Time!
You and me both, Martin.
Were things _actually_ better back then?
*Damn right they were!*
Be Well and best wishes.
HAD MY SIXTH BIRTHDAY PARTY THERE WAS 1965. WAS ALWAY'S THERE EVERY WEEKEND AS A KID. THANK'S FOR POSTING.................
I spent many summers hanging out down there. Even dated one of the guys. It was during an innocent time for me, and it will always be fondly remembered in my heart.
Went there in the early 70's .The roller coaster had no safety harnesses you felt like you were falling out when it went around every turn. As a kid I like seeing the old airfield that was next door also. It was more like a junk yard for old planes by then but as a kid it was still cool to see.
so pretty much the coney island (luna park) of queens
At least once a month, my father would take me and my brother up to the arcades in the early 80's. McDonald's first and then the Baskin Robbins after. Probably the fondest memories I have of my old life in Queens. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Wow, it was condemned in '73, Who knew. I was born in '70 and have extremely fond memories of going to Adventurers Inn up until my parents separated in '76. My father had 16mm home movies of my brother and I on the tiny "roller coaster" that was really only about 2 or 3 feet off the ground and I remember being traumatized by the Trip to the Moon scary house. Many thanks for putting this record up on the net where it will exist always.
@alterdestiny MY friend and I figured out there was a person who scared you on one part of the ride, so the next time we threw a cup of water at him! lol. I can't believe they spelled FLIGHT as FLIGTH....and it was never fixed
Was born in 75 and still remember bits of it this brought the memories back but I guess towards that time they had carnivals time to time, and the game room. I know the residence near by had issues with it.
I grew up a block away on 137th Street. I always thought of the place as primarily a pretty good cafeteria style restaurant, with good deli sandwiches and a bakery. I remember it had a particularly good condiments station that was almost a salad bar - pickled beets, relish, onions, saurkraut. "Take all you want. Eat all you take!"
Just found this video. My Dad would take me there in the 60's all the time. It is sad to see places like this and Catskill Game farm closed up. part of my childhood I will never get back. Thanks for the photos.
I spent my summers in the catskills and I haven't thought about the game farm in about 50 years!
Me too .. good and sad❤️
I remember this well. We used to com over from Co-op City, either by car, or by the QBX-1 bus. The arcade was my favorite part of it.
This fantastic video almost brought me to tears....I loved that place so much...me and my true dear friends went there many times....many of them are gone too like this great park...I was driving a 1973 Firebird Trans Am at the time i was going there...Thank you Thomas so much...
Whether Adventurers Inn,Freedom Land ,Pal.Park or a host of other smaller places,it is where we made friends and memories that have lasted a lifetime. Maybe, these places are what the kids are missing today.
I remember the boat ride and ringing the little bell so well and I must have been six years old. My father never tired of taking my sister and I there and we never got tired of it. I've lived in a lot of places over the past 40 years and met people that grew up in what they consider more "idealistic" places in the country but I'm thank my lucky stars that I grew up in Flushing, NY. We had so many wonderful places to go where forever memories were made whether it be Adventuer's Inn, The Worlds Fair, RKO Keiths or to keep me busy on a summer day my father gave me and my friend 2 subway tokens a dollar in quarters and three singles so we could take the bus to Main St. Ride the 7 line to Times Square in the first car and then run to the back of the train to be in the first car on it's way back to Main Street. Once we got there we had the 3 bucks for food at Gloria's Pizza or maybe Nedicks. Yes I love and miss my home which Flushing will always be. Thank you so much for the post and the memories.
I remember a slide where you basically got in a burlap sack and slid down this undulating blue fiberglass slope.
Also, the sky typers planes, WW2 era Texan trainers (one of which was modified to resemble a Japanese Zero for the movie Tora Tora Tora) and the Goodyear Mayflower blimp at the flushing airport nearby.
The slide with the burlap sack was over at GOLF CITY which was 1 exit down from Adventurers Inn by 20th Avenue. As a matter of fact Thomas Byrne, the person who provided this film, also has another film here on RUclips from when they filmed the RICHARD ROUNDTREE movie "SHAFT BACK IN ACTION". They filmed the car chase scene from the movie on 20th Avenue and you can see the AERO SLIDE (that's what the burlap bag ride was called) in the background.
I remember the slide too.
I went in the late 60’s early 70’s… what a great thrill. It was so exciting as a kid, Coney was like a world away so this was good. I remember Jungle Habitat too
Thank you for this video. I have such great memories of this place. They used to have a tent where I saw a lady turn into a gorilla before my very eyes. Then the gorilla broke out of the cage and chased us out. Me and my friends ran out so fast. We still laugh about it. 😄😄
Thank you! Those little boats made me the happiest little guy.. with pop, and nana..
Frank Bruno from Boulder, formerly Astoria and Flushing..
So many memories. Seeing that Boat ride just made me smile all over agin!
Thanks very much for sharing the memories & photos. I had many great memories as a young boy & later as a teenager.
Ray, I miss you so much, We used to have good times at the A. I. park, Sadly your not with us any longer, But I will always remember you as an awesome Brother. I remember you gave me the keys to your 64 Corvette and let me take it to Flushing High School for the day. No one could have had a better Brother.
Great memories seeing this footage. driving from jersey to visit relatives in Queens, we would pass the Adventurers' Inn and plead for my parents to stop. They would every now and then. It had a prime location with the giant entrance sign visible right off several busy highways.
Watching this made me feel I was back in my childhood home and neighborhood. Thanks!
my pleasure
watching this made me sort of sad ...
Awesome man!
I grew up right behind Flushing airport and clearly remember the Good Year Blimp landing there a lot and of course Adventures Inn!!! both now are long gone
We threw rocks at it from the Little League ball fields!
Still cherish the photos taken there with my honey in August 1971.
I lived in Mitchell Gardens, and I could see the sign "Adventurers Inn" from my bedroom window. As a child(0-10 before I moved)waiting for her parents to come home from a night out, (and nothing to watch on TV other than the Harlem globetrotters), I used to stare at the sign, because each letter would light up in sequence, and then they would all flash together, I think a few times..then go back to one at a time, etc.
My best childhood memories are of Adventurers Inn. I remember my dad taught me to use the rifle at the shooting game. I think it was one of the outdoor arcade, or maybe it was inside...Bozo the clown, there was a rocket ride on the glass wall of the restaurant that I liked. I remember the nice man that would change the dollar for you.
We ate there a lot. The sandwiches were amazing, but we couldn't afford them so we had the hot dogs.
I also don't remember too much of the arcade, bc we probably went through lots of money in there.
I met my first boyfriend in the summer of 1972, and whenever I heard the Paul Simon song "Mother and child reunion", I think of the Toboggan ride, since it was paying.
It was an exciting time then to be a teenager and hang out there after getting a tan at Jones beach...Like wasn't always happy, but it was a happy time at Adventurers Inn always
I'm just a little younger than most of ya, I only got to visit the arcade back in the 80's. No amusement park. I cried when we rolled up one day and it was burned down.
I loved this video. Thanks for putting it up. I was never at the amusement park because it was before my time, but from going to Gameland, I do remember the sign and the carcasses from all of the old rides. I would take the Q25/34 bus there and run to the arcade we called Adventurer's Inn.
My uncle and I would walk around to the through the dumps when we were little, to adventures in to get free sauerkraut. It was the best sauerkraut that we could have ever tasted we usually eat a bowl of that every time we went there until after a while somebody saw us there one too many times and said that we would have to pay a nickel, and of course as kids we didn't have a nickel we didn't dare ask our parents were any kind of money but we enjoyed ourselves doing it. This brings back memories, I will ever hold in my heart but my uncle❤ God bless everybody
Oh holy crap.i renember adventures inn.i used to go there as a kid,i remembered the batman slide & the toboggan ride,& the arcade.god how i miss those days.
Sent chills up my spine. Grew up in Flushing and lived there from 1963 - 1995
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS! Always loved Adventures Inn! Funny....on the nights my dad had no money to take us. Always said....OH. NO. WE MISSED THE EXIT! lmao!
I just found this today-4/29/2024-when I was wondering about the place we used to pass every time we drove from Long Island to Queens to see my cousins. I am not sure if we ever went to the park-perhaps one time?-but I remember seeing the sign every time we drove by. Great memories. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I remember it well. It was a place I took a long lost love.
I have really fond memories of that place in the 1960s and I loved the arcade. It's so sad to see the photos of it going to ruin before it was torn down. Much better to see the one of kids enjoying themselves on the rides.
Brings back many good memories. Lived in College Point and Flushing, Adventures Inn was the place to go on weekends. What a great time!
Great times there in late 70,s I remember the batting cages and mini golf. Thanks for the video..
Awesome!! Thanks so much. The haunted house scared the shit out of me in the mid 70s.
What a blast. This brings me back. How I loved this park, Palisades Park and Rockaway Playland.
Thank you for posting your video about Adventurer's Inn. It stirred memories of being there, nice family time.
Funny how I was just thinking about this place and found this video. My Dad used to take me there all the time when I was kid. Probably went on every ride at least 50 times or more over the years there. I also remember Super Amusements opened up on the other side in the shopping center and then started going there as I got a little older, again, with my Dad, and then going to McDonalds across the center. Really good happy memories. I miss those days.
I can remember meeting my car enthusiast friends with my 51 Chevy at the inn's parking lot in the early 60's and having a soda in the game room. What fond memories of my teenage years.
Went there in the late 60's as a kid. A lot of people I told about it didn't believe me. I thought I might have mistaken it for another amusement park, but I never forgot the name and here it is! Now I know I was right and what great memories! Thanks for this!
I visit this place every weekday to get lunch at Sarku Japan. I had forgotten Adventurers Inn was there. I was so young when it was there, but I remember going with my parents and big siblings a few times. Then, while travelling on the expway, I remember seeing them closed down for years. How I could've forgotten this is beyond me... Thanks for the vid.
I loved watching this video. I grew up in Whitestone and would go to Adventures Inn all the time. When I was a teenager, most of my friends worked there on the Go Carts. What GREAT childhood memories. I also loved Golf City where they had the Aero Slide, and the batting cages on 20th Avenue. Yes, the 60's and 70's was a great time to be a child. Thank you again. :)
I went there many times. I lived in Bayside. Loved the go carts
Many hundreds of wonderful Saturday afternoons with my dear departed father ... too many memories of that wonderful place.
Great Video,Hopefully many people will remember these times and share.
Nice vid. Thanks for using my pic in it (I'm the first kid you show).... great times....
Are you the kid in the boat?
thanks for the awesome video, brought back sooo many amazing memories. I've got 4 kids, and i just don't think they'd ever get to live and feel that amazing feeling of growing up in a place like Flushing. Miss Flushing. I grew up on 41-25 Kissena blvd the 6 floor building above the Key Food supermarket, and directly across from the library; where main street and kissena blvd came together. Miracle on Kissena was my hang out spot along with Flushing meadow park that actually had amusement parks rides their sometimes. almost fell out of the pirate pendulum ride (I was so skinny.. lol). Thanks again for the video. Precious memories.
Hey Kevin I grew up in Whitestone and I went to Adventurer's Inn all the time, but in the 60's before I lived in Whitestone I use to live on Kissena too! I lived at the corner of Kissena and Beech Avenue across from the Carlyle Towers Apt. buildings. You lived right by the Prospect movie theatre. Man I saw JAWS there in 1975! It was a lot of fun growing up in this section of Queens in the 60's and the 70's.
Wow Tommy what a trip down memory lane. I spent many hours at Adventurers Inn and Golf City growing up in Whitestone on 21st and 147th. Thanks for sharing this video
Great Videos thanks for the memories I grew up in Corona and as kid my dad would take me to the park but what I remember best was the baseball batting range my coach would take the team there for batting practice.
We lived on the other side of Queens but went there often. I remember the operator of the Polar Express asking "Are we going fast enough for you" and " Want to go backwards?". Kept us out of trouble. Great food too!
Glad I stumbled on this video. Spent many days and nights there with family and then with friends in the 60's. Loved the Tilt - A -Whirl. After any special event my parents took me there for an ice cream soda. I remember the sign over the fixings bar. "Take all you want, but eat all you take". Thanks for putting this up!
Nice piece of research! Definitely remember going here with my parents 45-50 years ago. I always thought this one kinda fell between the cracks... but you remembered, TommyB.
Truly amazing. This brought back so many good memories. I loved this video and thank you so much for finding it. I went there for parties, my mom and dad took me there on weekends, and I have a picture from when I was about 3 with my mom and dad in a little boat. I never knew where it was taken but it's the boats at Adventurer's Inn!!! Again, thank you so much!!!
To bad the children of today don't have a place like this, life was so sweet
Thank you for sharing this!! I grew up in the Flushing area of Queens and spent 45 years of my life there. I remember this park!! My parents took me there many times when I was a child. Great times!!
Thanks, Thomas! Glad to see the park again, plenty of hours playing there!
just so sad,great memories as a little boy.
Amazing Video! Thanks for taking the time to produce and post this...
We need an RKO Kieths video as well...
Don't know what you had til it's gone, that's for sure!
That first photo of Flushing Queens in the 40's was unbelievable, it looked like some vacant road in the middle of nowhere.. Hard to compare it to the hustle and bustle of the Queens we know today.. Great video!
I love this video! Great memories of Flushing! I was born in Queens, NY but lived in Astoria.
I too lived in Astoria and attended P.S. 70 until the first four weeks of the 6th grade, then we moved to Bay Shore, Suffolk County. Lots of fond memories of Astoria. My mom took me to Adventurers. I lived on 41st street, one block over from Steinway and down the block from the Library.
I went to PS 79 and then PS 107 in Flushing
Thanks so much for rekindling those memories. Spent MANY days and evenings there. Took a good number of dates there. I can distinctly remember that "Toboggan" ride, which was fine when it went forward, but then slowed, stopped, and started backwards.
That was really beautiful. Thank you. Had my 5th birthday there in 1971. Grew up in Whitestone. I loved the arcade. These pictures brought that all back.
Awesome! so many of us with so much in common
Flushing back in the 50's 60 and 70's and even the early 80's was an awesome place to grow up !!
Boy, did this bring back memories! I kept expecting to see my 7 year-old self in these pictures. :) Thanks for sharing.
What a great video!. I spent many a day here in the mid to late 50,s. Loved the bumper cars and the hot dogs inside the restaurant. Who remembers speeds airport across the street. my dad would take me there on Sunday mornings to watch the small planes take off and land.
My dad would do the same. I loved watching the little planes🤗
Oh my but that brought back memories. Thanks for that , it was a great place and I spent many wonderful times there as a kid growing up in Flushing.
I loved going to he Adventures Inn as a kid ! Brings back a lot good memories ! I remember after they expanded the park and added a lot more rides, the park was huge !
I also remember there was an inlet of water behind the restaurant where people had boats 🚣♀️ it was great ! There were so many amusement parks back then ! Palisades , Rockaway Playland , Playland Rye , Coney Island ! I’m glad that we grew up in a time when all these places still existed .
I remember this place. What a shame this place had to go. Had some fond memories there as a kid in the 1970s.
Me too.i had some fun times there as a kid.
For me it was a quick stop for a good hot dog driving down to the air port from Connecticut with easy access off and back onto the Whitestone Expwy.
The go karts and Jumbo Jet, wow. Had lots of fun there years ago. Thanks!!!
Wonderfully done Tommy, I had tears in my eyes watching. I rode my bike down the from 196th and 48th Ave many times.
Thank you for these memories. Made me cry.
I have a very distinct memory of the Batman Ride. I seem to remember they would jump on the back of the cars. I also seem to remember it was like a giant mnt of 'rock' and the cars would enter into 'caves'. I couldnt have been more than 5 or 6 yo. Thanks for posting this.
I worked at the park in 1974 and 1975 at it's closeing . It was the best 2 years of my teenage life. I made $1.85 the first year and moved up to $2.05 and hour. Wow. My friend big Bob Nardie got me the job right out of Francis Lewis H/S in 74. I worked 2 kiddie rides inthe daytime, and the FUn House at night. I could do any barrel roll trick in the book and then some. Thank you for your video , it brought back so many memories. I used to take so many pictures of every place and thing i did back then, but not of the park. Funny thing is, the man who helped close the park in 1975 , the democratic leader Bill Friedmann , and put me back on the streets, well In 1976 , i met , dated , and married his daughter Dana. ...... John
What a great story thanks for sharing it.
+John Bahrey John I worked there up until 1973,I worked on the Tobbogan and helped assemble the Jumbo jet roller coaster,they gave me a raise to 2.25 per hour.Harold Glantz ran the operation,I think he got into trouble with some financial scheme.I knew Paulette who ran the bumper cars with her German dad.I started with 1.85 per hour too.
Thank you SO much for this! It was worth the dehydrating walk from Roosevelt Ave. when parents didn't think to bring water. I recall pedophiles--workers and patrons. My powerful Opa saved me many times & cops only cared about the injuries he inflicted. In '69 it was skeevy but paradise to me. Food & toilets were super nasty, I can't believe I survived. My memories of this place are like CBGB's--pungent & fun.
My parents use to take my brother and I here. Beautiful memories.
great video! still remember goin to the arcade in the late 80's with my father..never forgot the holes that used to be around the perimeter of the building..the foundation on that swamp land was always unstable.
Ive seen pitures of it,sadly I never got to go there as a kid.
My grandmother used to take us to here when we were visiting our grandparents who lived in Bayside. We mostly only went to the arcade but I loved it and was always so excited to go. Thanks for making the video, brought back sweet and happy memories.
the game room was the biggest arcade I have ever seen. great memories.
I remember playing Skee-Ball and there was a big projection game where you grabbed an M-50 Machine Gunner turret by both handles and pressed the fire button down with your thumb and shot down Japanese Kamikaze planes as they approached your ship, it would switch from film projection of the plane getting through to a plane exploding if you hit it right. Such memories for me.
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I remember this game....thx, I thought I was the only one. I wasn't sure, thought it might have been a dream.
I remember it like it was yesterday. My dad took us to it all the time in the 60s n 70s. Jumbo jet was my 1st coaster and I loved it. I also remember toboggan too I remember it hurt! They also used to have a horse ride where you could take a horse and walk around their area. I always ran with the horse cause I knew how to ride. I remember passing adventurers inn for years and seeing jumbo jet just looking so sad. I believe they eventually moved it to Coney Island and then it ended up in Japan I think? I remember they had a shark arcade game there (jaws was popular) and I remember playing it all the time
Remembering adventurers inn in high school and junior high school ... that's when queens was queens. And New York was definitely New York.
Thank you! Wed drive there from Manhattan with as many kids we could fit in my dad's car. Loved the memories.
Thank you Phil, it was a trip down memory lane putting it together. I did a video for golf city too.
Wow, what an emotional evoking video. I remember riding the Octopus with my dad when I was a child. As a teen my favorite was the Jumbo Jet roller coaster and Music Express. I always felt bad for the petting zoo animals operated by Mike Romano's brother though.
Both my brothers worked there as did cousins and many friends. This was a main part of my teenage years. I'm so grateful to you for creating this amazing video. Thanks.
I grew up in Flushing and went there from 1961-1968 and I have no memory of any petting zoo.
Crochet Happy
Absolutely was a petting zoo!
Lots of goats.
Wow that was heavy. Drove past there today and the memories came flooding back.
What does it look 👀 like now ?
Loved this place!!! They should take down all of the new stores etc. that they put up and remake Adventures Inn!!!!
I was there...over & ovet..I lived there! Flushing was home....
Me too.i loved that place.i miss those days.
I was 7 years old when the place burned to the ground in 1991. It hurt me a lot to watch all of my favorite machines go up in smoke. My dad and I used to play eight ball champ there religiously. Many nights we spent playing all of their pinball machines for hours on end. Super A had newer machines, but this place has a real charm all its own. One day I'll become rich; try to recapture the glory days of the arcade/pinball Renaissance, and bring it back to life.
Thank you for making me tear, smile... mostly just remember.
Thank you for making this wonderful little video, it really made me smile.
I enjoyed watching this and learning something new about Queens.
You should look up the old RKO movie house on Northern and main
Thanks, and thankyou for putting your pic up on the web. When I was thinking about doing the video and I google image searched Adventurers Inn, yours was one of the best that popped up.
Great Retrospective. Thanks for putting it all together.
I have wonderful memories of going as a kid and being there with my grandfather in the early 70's
My weekends with my father always consisted of me yelling " adventuresinn adventurersinn" one word!!
Amazing video Tom..! Growing up in Flushing in the late 60's and 70's I spent sooooo much time in Adventures Inn as a kid, before and after most of it closed down (illegally trespassing... LoL..😉) and this was a fantastic trip down memory lane. Thank you so much for posting this as well as all the other Flushing/Whitestone/Bayside videos.
That was sweet! My parents would never stop there whenever we would drive by though! They were always in a hurry to get home for some reason.
My Dad's CB radio club used to meet there on the weekends back in the 60's. Great share Thx.
Mine too.. His clubs were in the Bronx but coffee breaks were there, Raffle for CB stuff. Mid 60's
Great childhood memories. Thanks for posting.
There is something depressing about abandoned amusement parks
Loved this place and spent many a Saturdays there. Thanks for the memories!!