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  • Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024

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  • @mrl7661
    @mrl7661 3 года назад +41

    I know the actual story of the whale, in fact I was there I used to work there is a maintenance guy in my early 20s. One day me and a few other workers were raising the whale out of the water for one last show before the season ended, we were scheduled to do maintenance. The maintenance was specifically a hydraulic rebuild because the whale mechanism was failing and that’s what killed the whale. So we went to go raise the whale, and during that process the whale came out of the water as normal swung up and was perfectly level and was working as it should, after a minute though the whale started shaking violently. The whale came out of the water using a winch that’s how it worked for the show but it had to hydraulic cylinders that raised the tail and the front end for a more realistic look. One of those hydraulic cylinders blew up causing the whale frame to crack into multiple pieces, the whale ended up falling off the track into the bottom of the water. I know a few friends who do scuba, The whale is still down there but it’s fiberglass, aluminum skin is so rotted and worn off it’s just a hollow rusty steel frame. That’s why I no one’s able to really see it. Cool that you’re looking for though I saw it last year you could still see the cylinder down there on the pond floor.
    that blew up.
    kind of a crazy story, but that’s what happened. Explosion wasn’t very loud. It was underwater so it was more just bubbles. The Hydraulic system pumped the pond water into the pistons and that’s how it worked. I’m not exactly sure but some of those pipes could be what’s left of those hydraulic lines pumping water into those pistons. I know there was an electric pump that constantly cycled the water in the pond and it was like a filter. This was put into the water so it wasn’t so murky I’m pretty sure it’s still there I’m not sure if it’s working but it’s just constantly cycling the pond water.

    • @chipmiller4350
      @chipmiller4350 2 года назад +3

      Are the porpoises in the pond as well?

    • @St03s
      @St03s 2 года назад +2

      Do you pictures of the whale down in the lagoon because I’m very interested of finding pictures of the Moby Dick animatronic

    • @pizzatime4430
      @pizzatime4430 Год назад

      Well, your lying

    • @pizzatime4430
      @pizzatime4430 Год назад +1

      @@EpicSonicBrosOfficial Then explain why the whale is in one piece, buddy

    • @CyberstarChuck
      @CyberstarChuck Год назад +1

      That would be so disturbing. Just imagine you go there one morning about to turn it on to get it out of the water, but someone literally did something wrong. So it results the whale just going under the water really fast, only to hear a loud thump at the bottom seconds later. I can’t even imagine how scary that would be in person to see.

  • @pasdor9936
    @pasdor9936 6 лет назад +94

    Genuinely here because I love large animatronics if anyone has any information on it please tell me

    • @laughtrack686
      @laughtrack686 5 лет назад +4

      Same.

    • @aname5418
      @aname5418 4 года назад +19

      Pasdor 993 it actually sunk- it just randomly cracked and stuff and sunk one day

    • @bigjimmypeeman3028
      @bigjimmypeeman3028 4 года назад +2

      @@aname5418 from a tiktok?

    • @thatoneguy5558
      @thatoneguy5558 4 года назад +15

      A Name They we’re trying to take the whale out after the park closed, but as they were pulling he broke into 4 pieces, now at the bottom of the lake

    • @audreyd619
      @audreyd619 4 года назад +15

      I so badly want to know what he looks like now under the water

  • @thatguytobyplayz4841
    @thatguytobyplayz4841 4 года назад +71

    Your not catching me on that ride 3:00

    • @poogolo3500
      @poogolo3500 4 года назад +13

      bruh it looks so scary

    • @peculiqrs
      @peculiqrs 4 года назад +10

      That ride is long gone haha!

    • @gjsselle4430
      @gjsselle4430 4 года назад +1

      LMFAO SAME

    • @jadarabbit9319
      @jadarabbit9319 4 года назад +15

      Apparently the animatronic broke down and sunk to the bottom of the lake, it's still there 😖

    • @thatguytobyplayz4841
      @thatguytobyplayz4841 4 года назад +10

      Vanilla Pumpakin rah if that thing sunk could you imagine diving under and finding it 🤢

  • @hanakokun8641
    @hanakokun8641 4 года назад +14

    I love old commercials and lost treasures like this🥺 it makes me sad but interested ngl

  • @ClassicRockDJdotcom
    @ClassicRockDJdotcom 10 лет назад +16

    Grew up right down the street from here! Was there many many times as a kid! Some of my greatest childhood memories, Thanks for the memories :)

    • @hiphophousewife
      @hiphophousewife 10 лет назад

      Me, too!

    • @ClassicRockDJdotcom
      @ClassicRockDJdotcom 10 лет назад

      Small world, aint it. and the Internet has made it even smaller ;)

    • @laughtrack686
      @laughtrack686 6 лет назад

      ClassicRockDJdotcom I find it kind of amusing I live all the way in Canada; never been here. But I still find this park really interesting. I've been tracking the Moby animatronic, and I am pretty sure its still there, but now beached on shore!

  • @frenchyst.germain5915
    @frenchyst.germain5915 10 лет назад +32

    Use to sneak in by walking through the closeby woods and scaling the fence. I am sure I am in the audience watching Clarabel. But I also saw the other acts like the Three Stooges and Ricky Nelson.

  • @daybird2
    @daybird2 6 лет назад +23

    Oh, what memories! I won a day trip there when I was a paperboy for the Greenfield Recorder Gazette back in 1965. Really had a blast that day. I loved the Wreck of the Hesperus ride the best.

  • @ArteeIsOnYoutube
    @ArteeIsOnYoutube 4 года назад +30

    2:52 Apparently after the park closed, the whale broke in four pieces and is at the bottom of the park, 8 feet down, broken.
    and I stole that from TikTok like a boss

    • @sarahgoodrich6631
      @sarahgoodrich6631 3 года назад +3

      I heard the painted whale was auctioned...so it may not be there anymore just some wood skeleton...

    • @happypercussionist1
      @happypercussionist1 3 года назад +1

      @@sarahgoodrich6631 Probably just the ship, and not the whake.

  • @christinezack1251
    @christinezack1251 3 года назад +3

    Going to Pleasure Island was always a highlight. Loved the horseless carriages and the ice cream!

  • @artjodrey8367
    @artjodrey8367 5 лет назад +6

    Wow... like stepping back in time. Not sure if we had more fun there as kids or as teenagers after it burned down. "Party at PI" was a commonly shared phrase in high school - before social media or cell phones - when the weekend plans were spread around school, lol

  • @nitornemo9391
    @nitornemo9391 10 лет назад +7

    Awesome memories...
    but, feeling soooo old seeing this!

  • @mcnamarajohn1
    @mcnamarajohn1 Год назад +3

    I worked there in ‘64 ‘65 and ‘66. Great to see it again.

    • @Thesharkthatsintheocean
      @Thesharkthatsintheocean Год назад

      What was moby Dick like

    • @gerrydooley951
      @gerrydooley951 2 месяца назад

      did you see the Lone ranger there?

    • @mcnamarajohn1
      @mcnamarajohn1 2 месяца назад

      @@gerrydooley951 yes, I did.

    • @gerrydooley951
      @gerrydooley951 2 месяца назад

      @@mcnamarajohn1 fantastic, any photos?

    • @mcnamarajohn1
      @mcnamarajohn1 2 месяца назад

      @@gerrydooley951 no. I also met Caesar Romero ( the joker in Batman) ; little Joe Cartwright, Frank Gorshin ( the Riddler in Batman) and Fess Parker ( Davy Crockett on TV in those days).

  • @smd2768
    @smd2768 2 года назад +2

    This was wonderful to watch. The park was long gone when I was growing up. I often wondered what it must have looked like when I would pass the exit sign for Pleasure Island Road on 128. I love the "Davy and Goliath/Gumby" sounding background music in this film. When they were talking about Western City, I was thinking maybe Rex Trailer and Cactus Pete would make an appearance. :-)

  • @Koocey
    @Koocey 2 года назад +1

    I loved going there when I was a young kid. Lived and from Wakefield, Ma

  • @patwiggins6969
    @patwiggins6969 4 года назад +11

    Not exactly what I was looking for but I'll take it

  • @ergylistian2829
    @ergylistian2829 4 года назад +127

    Who here because tik tok?

  • @UrNotaClown.UrTheEntireCircus
    @UrNotaClown.UrTheEntireCircus 4 года назад +10

    That whale is freakin' scary

  • @douglasiram7937
    @douglasiram7937 Месяц назад

    My first job was on the clean up crew at Pleasure Island. It was really a fun place to work. Most of the employees were high school students.

  • @paulmcauliffe8857
    @paulmcauliffe8857 3 года назад +1

    Cool memories! Went there a few times.

  • @Mattd547
    @Mattd547 2 года назад

    Watching this from the office park that now stands on the Pleasure Island site. You can still see some of the amusements when the water is low

  • @laughtrack686
    @laughtrack686 6 лет назад +3

    Wish I had a place like this where I live.

  • @dabunnyman9133
    @dabunnyman9133 4 года назад +4

    Only trace of the old park is an exit off RTE 128 that goes onto Pleasure Island Road.

    • @dabunnyman9133
      @dabunnyman9133 4 года назад

      @TechMasterJason Got to visit the park 3 times as a kid. There used to be a site online with pics of the park after it'd closed and been vandalized. Sad to see how it had fallen.

  • @mkhackz2968
    @mkhackz2968 8 лет назад +8

    I'm not going there I might turn into a donkey LOL

  • @sheddski2942
    @sheddski2942 3 года назад

    I miss this place went there every year through the 60s then it was gone ruins turned to industrial park and now big office park buildings only thing left is this video on you tube even Walt Disney visited when first opened 1959 but winter was unpredictable in Wakefield mass and 10 years later closed

  • @jcmusix1
    @jcmusix1 5 лет назад +17

    I remember thinking the place was so cheezy even though I was only a kid.

    • @nelsonstenson2398
      @nelsonstenson2398 4 года назад +4

      I remember moby dick as being white painted oil drums.That barely rose out of the water.Green murky water and endless floating cigarette butts.

  • @landyachtfan79
    @landyachtfan79 3 года назад

    I have no doubt I would have loved this place. Unfortunately, it closed 10 years before I was born.

  • @thatguytobyplayz4841
    @thatguytobyplayz4841 4 года назад +2

    Imagine swimming around in that water, no clue of the whale.. you sit still for a moment only to dive underwater and face the massive whale for it to then begin to move and lift you out of the water, fuck that

  • @kenseyann9368
    @kenseyann9368 2 года назад +1

    I have submechanophobia so the whales are horrifying.
    (fear of submerged animatronics/props.)

  • @nicole187
    @nicole187 4 года назад +23

    who thought this was a good idea 💀

    • @villek3722
      @villek3722 4 года назад +2

      What is wrong with it?

    • @annemcgillicuddy9248
      @annemcgillicuddy9248 3 года назад +2

      Obviously you never went to this fantastic place.

    • @sheddski2942
      @sheddski2942 3 года назад +1

      I loved it a guy I knew skindived down and met the whale face to face and some wrecked boats back in 1980 before they developed that area and filled in all in back in the 90s

    • @frostedcherrybon
      @frostedcherrybon 2 года назад

      @@sheddski2942 that's traumatizing

  • @mrsolephant
    @mrsolephant 2 года назад +1

    2:48 what type of dolphin is that?

  • @Soundofsilence-j4d
    @Soundofsilence-j4d Год назад

    Hard believe i was little boy my brother in law took me i was so scared at christmas time i had no idea how expensivie it was. I cryed and cryed i remember nice looken waiter gave me free piece pizza to quite me. Ill never forget it. Not realizen i ruined good time. I was 4 and harf or five

  • @MarciaMatthews
    @MarciaMatthews 6 лет назад +2

    Fond memories!

  • @allkindsamusicchick
    @allkindsamusicchick 5 лет назад +1

    Did we get to ride donkeys through a body of water? I vaguely remember something like that. Am I wrong?

    • @talessi9
      @talessi9 5 лет назад

      We rode beside a small pond.

    • @allkindsamusicchick
      @allkindsamusicchick 5 лет назад

      @@talessi9 Why am I remembering going 'Through' a body of water atop an animal of some sort? Anyways, thanks!

    • @talessi9
      @talessi9 5 лет назад

      @@allkindsamusicchick Maybe the Moby Dick ride?

  • @williamjensen5044
    @williamjensen5044 5 лет назад +1

    This is Audubon Road now?

  • @curtissylvester6347
    @curtissylvester6347 7 лет назад +1

    remember when my parents to my sister and I to pleasure island when we were little , I remember when moby dick came out of water, the Disney land of Massachusetts

  • @gerrydooley951
    @gerrydooley951 2 месяца назад

    are the remains of the park still there in 2024?

  • @Sarah-sl7ko
    @Sarah-sl7ko 3 года назад

    Legend has it Moby Dick is still down there.

    • @micahsmith9178
      @micahsmith9178 10 месяцев назад

      That's because he is still down there.

  • @fortmyersgangta8303
    @fortmyersgangta8303 2 года назад +1

    They make meth right behind were the park used to sit.

  • @wease2000
    @wease2000 10 лет назад +1

    I remember when the Thee Stooges came there.

  • @toffzee
    @toffzee 4 года назад +4

    Dont we all just love Tik Tok?

  • @stevieray56
    @stevieray56 3 года назад

    And they filled acres of unusable marsh land with concrete to make a parking lot that holds 3000 cars!

    • @tommyboy518
      @tommyboy518 3 года назад

      Pretty sure they built an Industrial Park there, lots of jobs

  • @oceanwhisperer
    @oceanwhisperer 3 года назад

    The blow hole is on the wrong side y’know

  • @babycakesxo9625
    @babycakesxo9625 3 года назад

    They should no better . The coachman is going to turn them all into donkeys

  • @AlexMcGillvrey
    @AlexMcGillvrey 2 года назад

    Good thing no one turns into donkeys at this place.

  • @jrsampayo1510
    @jrsampayo1510 3 года назад

    Who is here for the tiktok for the exposed of Pinocchio

  • @Aziruf
    @Aziruf 4 года назад +2

    God. All of these TikTokers here. I really hope they don’t migrate over to RUclips when it’s banned. Their emoji talking hurts me.

  • @jcmusix1
    @jcmusix1 5 лет назад +1

    Turned "unusable marshland" into a parking lot they say. I wonder how the wildlife is liking the parking lot now? What a waste.

    • @starrycanvas.
      @starrycanvas. 4 года назад +4

      @TechMasterJason I have a feeling that the something was up there. The whale animatronic was about to be taken out when the park shut down and it suddenly cracked broke into four pieces and sunk to the bottom of the water.

    • @starrycanvas.
      @starrycanvas. 4 года назад +1

      @TechMasterJason Don't know, maybe. It could be even deeper in the water if so. I hope by now its decayed or nowhere to be seen.
      Edit: Turns out after some research that it may still be there, a guy was at the park when a guy in a scuba suit come out of the water. The guy said he came face to face with a giant eye, so part of the whale may still be there.

  • @UnderTheTableGremlin
    @UnderTheTableGremlin 7 лет назад +12

    1:20 isn't that kind of... racist?

    • @kendrickrochelanzot2053
      @kendrickrochelanzot2053 5 лет назад +7

      TigerLily not back then

    • @Michaelbos
      @Michaelbos 4 года назад +9

      TigerLily , always somebody with that crutch word racist. Who gives a shit.

    • @mikeyd2601
      @mikeyd2601 4 года назад +1

      yeah

    • @MsSmitty9
      @MsSmitty9 3 года назад +1

      The kids in the crowd were having a total blast !! I don’t think they were thinking about “racism “ at that point. They just wanted there Pepsi and cotton candy.

    • @annemcgillicuddy9248
      @annemcgillicuddy9248 3 года назад +2

      I feel sorry for you.🤣