I love Kennywood! Ahh, the memories. I remember the commercials in 80s made me want to be a teen so bad Hahaha (b1980). All of your videos are a fantastic blast from the past!! Thanks for sharing!
Weird Paul - You sure brought back memories for me. I lived in Pgh growing up and went to some of those parks. Of course, every summer I went to Kennywood. I remember buying the tickets at school. It's great to know that Kennywood is still in business. I gotta take a drive up there and see it once more. Thanks for your video, I enjoyed it! See ya -- Atco
atco21117 Glad you enjoyed it! You reminded me of how we always had the option to buy Kennywood tickets in school - and then they would have Kennywood picnic day, when all the students would go on the same day. I never did go with the school though, only with my family!
loved these, Paul!! i look forward to the day i can go to Kennywood, i gotta check out that Garfield's Nightmare. the amusement park i have the fondest memories of growing up is Miracle Strip in Panama City Beach, FL. a lot of their rides were carnival rides, like the tilt-a-whirl, but were in buildings where you went under a giant abominable snowman or inside the mouth a devil's head. those rides just aren't the same without the mirrors, strobe lights, and fog Miracle Strip had. sadly they closed it around 2004.
***** Man, that old midway type stuff is the best! In 1998, Kennywood celebrated their 100th anniversary by putting on a "centennial midway". I got to see an exhibit where they magically changed a woman into a gorilla!!
Really enjoyed this video. Here in southern California we have two big corporate ones, Disneyland and Six Flags, but my favorite was the local Knott's Berry Farm. Sometimes the local ones are the most fun.
Vebinz I think that the smaller, local ones do have a great charm that can be missing from the large, corporate ones. The big ones are sometimes just showoffs!
I have been to amusemnt parks across the country. In Pennsylvania, I've been to Kennywood and Hersheypark. The Phantom's Revenge was a cool ride because you are going through the Thunderbolt at such high speed. Kennywood has so many old school attractions you won't find anywhere else. I still have a photo from 2013 of me and my mother riding the Fahrenheit. I was smiling while my mother had this "OH CRAP!" look when we were dropping down 97 degrees LOL. This was just after my trip to Baltimore.
I didn't frequent the amusement parks much in my youth. Maybe the Six Flags Great Adventure in northern NJ about 3 or 4 times, and that was about it. I liked how they had a drive-through safari next to the park.
Interesting..I like Amusement Parks too!! Conneaut Lake Park is open again on weekends. I think it closes at 8PM now. They have a Facebook Page. I am planning on driving up before the season ends. I loved that Park,and it was closed a long time. Very nice Paul!!
I really liked that castle ride at Kennywood when I was a kid. I think it was called Le Cachot. There were lots of checkerboard floors and snakes that shot up at you. I wish they still had the big ferris wheel.
I grew up near the Adirondacks in New York, so the theme park that I went to often as a child in the 90's and early/mid 2000's was The Great Escape/Splashwater Kingdom in Lake George NY. It seems quite similar to Kennywood, judging by the films. There was a kiddy section with little houses and a fairytale theme and rides, like mini versions of the adult rides as well as coasters and other things for the over 5 crowd lol. There was also a water park area, that was always so much fun. As a preteen I favored the Splashwater kingdom part more than the rides. Another place that I remember going to as a child was the Catskill Game Farm, which has since closed down. It was a petting zoo with some rides, like maybe a carousel and a little kiddy coaster. I can't remember exactly. There was also Hoffman's Playland in Albany... that was a great place if you were five and under lol. Often went there for younger cousin's birthdays. As a teenager my grandparents lived in Connecticut and I remember we would often go to Lake Quassy. They had boat rides and other typical fair like rides. But I was just getting into my love of vintage games, so the arcade was my favorite there... playing Ms PacMan!
I just performed live at the Catskill Game Farm in September! I'm not kidding! Here's the link to the website: meltasia01.businesscatalyst.com/ I've been to Connecticut a couple times, that's where my dad is from: ruclips.net/video/82IhLFgFzcA/видео.html
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL that is awesome! It sucks that I no longer live up north! (I've lived in NYS and Pennsylvania!) I would have loved to see you perform live! (Maybe I'll get to if you ever come to Florida or if I'm up north visiting friends and family!) :) it would have been an awesome mix of my childhood and my NOW young adulthood combining if I saw you perform at the Game Farm! Lol
This video makes me look forward to the day I will be able to bring my young daughters to amusement parks. Confession: I also had a none to brave reaction to the first time I entered a "haunted house" at a Mississippi state fair. When I entered a dark room I heard a very sinister "Bwaa HA HA HAHA HA!" come from the darkness and I bolted out of the entrance. Only in hind sight did I realize that sound came from somebody's dad having some fun and was not an official haunted house sound.
I remember Storybook Forest! I don't remember that thing you mentioned next, but the Puff The Magic Dragon ride looks very familiar... I don't remember all the amusement parks I've been too... >.>
The Ceej Somewhere, my mom has a kid's book from the 60's about Storybook Forest with pictures of all the stuff there. I loved that book when I was a kid. I wanted to show it in this video but we couldn't locate it. :(
I grew up in West View, my oldest brothers had the experience of West Views theme park when they were little. Kennywood is still a summer staple! However I live in NYC now. But Pittsburgh will always be the Emerald City ❤❤
My favorite amusement park is Six Flags Arlington TX, went there for the first time in the summer of 1995 when I was 9 I had a blast it took me four years to build up enough courage to ride the Texas Giant.
Hey Paul, if your interested, there is a documentary on amusement parks from PBS called "Great Old Amusement Parks". It talks a lot about theme parks similar to what you have showed from the 40's-90's. Its really cool and interesting. Its about an hour long and they show it fairly frequently on pbs.
Here in Sacramento,Ca we have a place located in a large park called "Fairy Tail Town" quick would be the equivalent of your Fairy Tail parks. It use to cost 50 cents to get in when I was a wee lad. I'm sure now outs around $5.00.
Thank you! I was wondering where I got that from. I remember that little scene..way too funny. Same sketch where he wanted to blow smoke into the baby's face and the white bearded guy threatened him.
Henry S Never been to Dollywood - would love to...but I guess I need to go to Graceland first! Great score on the Major Morgan! I don't have the box or any of the cards with mine!
I enjoyed your video! My favorite park was Magic World in The Great Smoky Mountains.It consisted of mild rides and wild rides as well. I like mild rides. They have turned the park into a golf course.I sure miss it! Opryland was good too but now there is a big shopping mall in its place. Dollywood is not the same, now its mostly roller coasters, which I don't ride. I miss the old parks! ☺
Beverly C Hi Beverly! I don't ride roller coasters, either! I rode two roller coasters in 1999. They were a couple of the craziest ones they had at Kennywood. I figured I would just ride the craziest ones and then I would never have to ride another one again!
@@weirdpaulp That is one i never reached i feel it was the beer that kept me away from there when i was young very strict people were watching over me. I would break away from them now and then they just said to meet them at a certain place at a certain time to find them.
Here in Buffalo we have things from The Story Land in a park called Fantasy Island and we had an old-school one that we go to over the border to Canada called Crystal Beach that I went to every summer when I was a kid
I remember those places have good memories of them You ever been to Kings Dominion or Hersey Park? Ocean City maybe? those type of parks and places i have been to a lot. A lot of what you did back then i did.
Hey Paul... do you remember the "Palisades Park"-themed commercial "Kennywood Park"? "Up... in the Pirate Ship, down... in the Raging Rapids... " Frankie Cannon did both the original and Kennywood versions.
i grew up in pittsburg when i was a kid been to kennywood a few times i was so young i wasnt tall enought to ride the thunderbolt until 3 years later :)
jeremy cline Thanks! Even though I don't live that far away, I have still never been to Hershey Park! I need to get out there sometime! I never made it to Williams Grove. I read that the cars on their main roller coaster came from the legendary Palisades Park.
The big theme park for me as a kid was Thorpe Park, loved going there. Not been there for years, mainly because it's ridiculously expensive to get in to now. It's sister park up north, Alton Towers is also virtually abandoned after two of their rollercoasters crashed resulting in several of the passengers having to have their legs amputated.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Nooooo, they had two separate crashes. The big one where people lost limbs and the second one was the nail in the coffin of people fearing safety. Did you go/ever hear of Action Park as well?
I just looked up Alton Towers and found the results very interesting. Firstly, there is NO mention of either of the crashes on their wikipedia page at all. There were also two news items from the past week: one was about how they are planning a new hotel to try to attract their customers back and the other one was an article about one of the crash survivors learning to walk again without her leg. I had never heard of Action Park, so I looked that up as well. The deaths that occurred there are well documented on that Wikipedia page!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Very interesting that there's no mention of the accidents. Is the page edit locked at all? As it's a bit naughty if their own staff are editing the page. Conflict of Interest Etc. But yeah, I read about Action Park on that Retroist website you're sometimes featured on. There's a documentary video online about it too. Pretty horrorific place!
Right, that's a no-no! I did some editing on my own Wikipedia page (only added some albums to my discography) and they threatened to ban me! I love the Retroist, great site!
Some parks Ive been to are the big ones like Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida, as well as Six Flags Great America here in IL and Cedar Point in OH. Cedar Point used to have a whole Bernstain Bears section but I think they replaced it with Snoopy these days. Some smaller ones near me were Santa's Village & Kiddie Land. We used to always travel to the Wisconsin Dells all the time when I was younger and they had plenty of small theme and water parks: Noah's Ark, Family Land, Splash World, and Big Chief Go Kart World. Noah's Ark is still open but the others have either closed or been combined into Mount Olympus. Also, did not know you had a child Paul, major news dropped on me in this video. How old is your son now?
CoreysVlog Cedar Point was a park that I have been near probably almost a dozen times. Because I went to the Sea World in Sandusky that many times - but never across to Cedar Point! I had never heard of Santa's Village - so this is a park where all the rides are Santa/Christmas oriented? Sounds really cool! My son is 19 now. He has filmed and edited several of my music videos, like this one (in which he also plays the kid having the seizure): ruclips.net/video/tIOyKItlqCY/видео.html
Atlanta - Six Flags - Z-Force: -red head a-hole cousin cried -I loved it - the cockiest kid losing his will and crumpling in front of Z-Force. His confidant laughter became terrified tears.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL and the blu streak is sturdy and my cabin is curved and yellow with three trees pleas come and visit next week have a great day
Probably the closest thing to where I live is Frontier City in Oklahoma City. There's roller coasters and I'm pretty sure the Charlie Daniels Band has some sort of lifetime contract to play there every year. Maybe Joan Jett too. I don't like throw up rides and shit so I don't go often. The last time I went I just walked around and drank over-priced beer.
munchycrunchypancake I am definitely in the class of "walk-er around-er" nowadays. But that's fine with me, I just like to look around and remember later!
+Luigitimeless Yeah it can smell bad. Basically it's air that is trapped somewhere for awhile and doesn't circulate. This air was in some kind of pump and it was released at you in a big puff.
one i remember..i dont know if you went or know about it..."frontiertown" i think it was in vermont...and also....how old were you when your son was born...cuz i had my kids at 17 ...was just wondering?
Daniel Lacombe I was 25 when my son was born - same age my dad was when I was born! I had never heard of "frontiertown" so I looked it up. We actually have something similar to that here in PA where I have been, the place is called Old Economy Village.
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Gustavo Garcia Yes I only have a few videos like this one, I have one about the Disney Cruise: ruclips.net/video/gTK0_A8khKc/видео.html and one about Sea World: ruclips.net/video/Yf1pQaS7tW8/видео.html . I believe my grandmother was the one who kept lots of stuff first. She died when I was 7. My mother took after her and also kept lots of stuff. There is a photo somewhere of me when I am very small, maybe 3 years old and I am carrying a bag from a loaf of bread. I had cut pictures out of the newspaper and kept them in the bag.
I've been to kennywood a lot over the past few years and my favorite rides there are the exterminator and the jack rabbit, and if i had to be honest I think I was born in the wrong era.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I been on it about 3 times,the first time was in 3rd grade I was scared,. I rode it again in 7th grade and it was awesome
having the worst day and your videos shined light on this dark day
Lucky Gomez I'm sorry about your bad day and I'm really very glad that my videos could make it a little better!!
I love Kennywood! Ahh, the memories. I remember the commercials in 80s made me want to be a teen so bad Hahaha (b1980). All of your videos are a fantastic blast from the past!! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it Stephanie! It's been a long time since I have been there, but maybe I will go back soon!
As someone who loves theme parks, I love this video! Great job, Paul!
+TheEpicElluminati Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I just love hearing your memories... every video you have brightens my life
+tamisweetie Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoy them!
I live in Pittsburgh, and seeing all the old footage from Kennywood, this is an awesome video!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Weird Paul - You sure brought back memories for me. I lived in Pgh growing up and went to some of those parks. Of course, every summer I went to Kennywood. I remember buying the tickets at school. It's great to know that Kennywood is still in business. I gotta take a drive up there and see it once more. Thanks for your video, I enjoyed it! See ya -- Atco
atco21117 Glad you enjoyed it! You reminded me of how we always had the option to buy Kennywood tickets in school - and then they would have Kennywood picnic day, when all the students would go on the same day. I never did go with the school though, only with my family!
Mine was Six Flags. That's where my parents would take me and my sister to almost every year. Those looked like some really fun parks you went to.
I went to Six Flags once about 15 years ago, it was fun!
loved these, Paul!! i look forward to the day i can go to Kennywood, i gotta check out that Garfield's Nightmare. the amusement park i have the fondest memories of growing up is Miracle Strip in Panama City Beach, FL. a lot of their rides were carnival rides, like the tilt-a-whirl, but were in buildings where you went under a giant abominable snowman or inside the mouth a devil's head. those rides just aren't the same without the mirrors, strobe lights, and fog Miracle Strip had. sadly they closed it around 2004.
***** Man, that old midway type stuff is the best! In 1998, Kennywood celebrated their 100th anniversary by putting on a "centennial midway". I got to see an exhibit where they magically changed a woman into a gorilla!!
Really enjoyed this video.
Here in southern California we have two big corporate ones, Disneyland and Six Flags, but my favorite was the local Knott's Berry Farm.
Sometimes the local ones are the most fun.
Vebinz I think that the smaller, local ones do have a great charm that can be missing from the large, corporate ones. The big ones are sometimes just showoffs!
Thanks for cheering me up
Glad to be of service!
There was a park called Rocky Glen in Moosic, PA I use to go to as a child. It closed in 1987 I think. Good times and memories.
+snakehips3131 We drove past Moosic on our way to Connecticut in 1986. I know because I filmed the sign that said the Moosic exit was coming up.
I have been to amusemnt parks across the country. In Pennsylvania, I've been to Kennywood and Hersheypark. The Phantom's Revenge was a cool ride because you are going through the Thunderbolt at such high speed. Kennywood has so many old school attractions you won't find anywhere else. I still have a photo from 2013 of me and my mother riding the Fahrenheit. I was smiling while my mother had this "OH CRAP!" look when we were dropping down 97 degrees LOL. This was just after my trip to Baltimore.
I didn't frequent the amusement parks much in my youth. Maybe the Six Flags Great Adventure in northern NJ about 3 or 4 times, and that was about it. I liked how they had a drive-through safari next to the park.
I only went when I was very young and when I had a child. I didn't care at all once I was a teenager and I still don't really like riding the rides.
Knobels is in Elysburg, PA and Dorney Park is in Allentown. About an hour away from Philadelphia each.
TheSpyt67 I will have to check them out, online!
Interesting..I like Amusement Parks too!! Conneaut Lake Park is open again on weekends. I think it closes at 8PM now. They have a Facebook Page. I am planning on driving up before the season ends. I loved that Park,and it was closed a long time. Very nice Paul!!
Drew Martin Wow! I had no idea they opened it back up - and I read that admission is only $10 now! I sure want to check it out again!
I really liked that castle ride at Kennywood when I was a kid. I think it was called Le Cachot. There were lots of checkerboard floors and snakes that shot up at you. I wish they still had the big ferris wheel.
Richard Magnelli I never rode Le Cachot. I was always too scared to ride it. I wish I had. I only got to ride the Gold Rush.
I grew up near the Adirondacks in New York, so the theme park that I went to often as a child in the 90's and early/mid 2000's was The Great Escape/Splashwater Kingdom in Lake George NY. It seems quite similar to Kennywood, judging by the films. There was a kiddy section with little houses and a fairytale theme and rides, like mini versions of the adult rides as well as coasters and other things for the over 5 crowd lol. There was also a water park area, that was always so much fun. As a preteen I favored the Splashwater kingdom part more than the rides.
Another place that I remember going to as a child was the Catskill Game Farm, which has since closed down. It was a petting zoo with some rides, like maybe a carousel and a little kiddy coaster. I can't remember exactly.
There was also Hoffman's Playland in Albany... that was a great place if you were five and under lol. Often went there for younger cousin's birthdays.
As a teenager my grandparents lived in Connecticut and I remember we would often go to Lake Quassy. They had boat rides and other typical fair like rides. But I was just getting into my love of vintage games, so the arcade was my favorite there... playing Ms PacMan!
I just performed live at the Catskill Game Farm in September! I'm not kidding! Here's the link to the website: meltasia01.businesscatalyst.com/
I've been to Connecticut a couple times, that's where my dad is from: ruclips.net/video/82IhLFgFzcA/видео.html
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL that is awesome! It sucks that I no longer live up north! (I've lived in NYS and Pennsylvania!) I would have loved to see you perform live! (Maybe I'll get to if you ever come to Florida or if I'm up north visiting friends and family!) :) it would have been an awesome mix of my childhood and my NOW young adulthood combining if I saw you perform at the Game Farm! Lol
What part of Pennsylvania?
great video! those ride all day bracelet clips brought back memories!!
Thanks Sean! I'm glad I saved those all these years.
This video makes me look forward to the day I will be able to bring my young daughters to amusement parks. Confession: I also had a none to brave reaction to the first time I entered a "haunted house" at a Mississippi state fair. When I entered a dark room I heard a very sinister "Bwaa HA HA HAHA HA!" come from the darkness and I bolted out of the entrance. Only in hind sight did I realize that sound came from somebody's dad having some fun and was not an official haunted house sound.
not an official haunted house sound!!
I remember Storybook Forest! I don't remember that thing you mentioned next, but the Puff The Magic Dragon ride looks very familiar... I don't remember all the amusement parks I've been too... >.>
The Ceej Somewhere, my mom has a kid's book from the 60's about Storybook Forest with pictures of all the stuff there. I loved that book when I was a kid.
I wanted to show it in this video but we couldn't locate it. :(
I grew up in West View, my oldest brothers had the experience of West Views theme park when they were little. Kennywood is still a summer staple! However I live in NYC now. But Pittsburgh will always be the Emerald City ❤❤
I love Kennywood❤I go there every summer and I also love the lion fountain Cowboy statue😁Kennywood is one of my favorite places ever😊😜
It is really nice to go there now and have all the memories come back to me.
I LOVED Fairyland Forrest! So sad that it’s long gone!
To son: "it'll be fun!"
*child cries*
"Goddamn it!!"
I have no children...
i LOVE amusement park memories !!
thebosshow They are GREAT!
My favorite amusement park is Six Flags Arlington TX, went there for the first time in the summer of 1995 when I was 9 I had a blast it took me four years to build up enough courage to ride the Texas Giant.
I still like story book forest and idlewild and used to visit sea world every other year.
I miss those days. It was a real adventure driving out to those places for the day.
Hey Paul, if your interested, there is a documentary on amusement parks from PBS called "Great Old Amusement Parks". It talks a lot about theme parks similar to what you have showed from the 40's-90's. Its really cool and interesting. Its about an hour long and they show it fairly frequently on pbs.
rusty shackleford That sounds really cool, I'll watch for it!
Here in Sacramento,Ca we have a place located in a large park called "Fairy Tail Town" quick would be the equivalent of your Fairy Tail parks. It use to cost 50 cents to get in when I was a wee lad. I'm sure now outs around $5.00.
Joshua Christian 50¢ or $5.00 still sounds like a bargain! If I ever get out to Sacramento, I'll be sure to check that one out!
"Do you like Mountain Dew?" I would sing that same little song to random people in the 90's when I was at college. Small world.
I got it from the Tom Green show on MTV. I heard him singing it to an old lady.
Thank you! I was wondering where I got that from. I remember that little scene..way too funny. Same sketch where he wanted to blow smoke into the baby's face and the white bearded guy threatened him.
Looks like it was fun! I also had a "laughing lady" near me, she haunted my dreams for years!
B Coopenstein She is frightening!
The maniacal laughter and song is what got me!
Camperland- ooh fun! Kennywood vs Dollywood? Off topic but got a Major Morgan toy yesterday. Didn't have all the cards, but had original box.
Henry S Never been to Dollywood - would love to...but I guess I need to go to Graceland first! Great score on the Major Morgan! I don't have the box or any of the cards with mine!
I enjoyed your video! My favorite park was Magic World in The Great Smoky Mountains.It consisted of mild rides and wild rides as well. I like mild rides. They have turned the park into a golf course.I sure miss it! Opryland was good too but now there is a big shopping mall in its place. Dollywood is not the same, now its mostly roller coasters, which I don't ride. I miss the old parks! ☺
Beverly C Hi Beverly! I don't ride roller coasters, either! I rode two roller coasters in 1999. They were a couple of the craziest ones they had at Kennywood. I figured I would just ride the craziest ones and then I would never have to ride another one again!
Lol, good idea Paul. Did u hear about the lady falling out of the one in TX? Scary!
Oh man. I know one thing, that is NOT the way that I want to go!
Me neither!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Going through the gears of a combine; that's the way I wanna go.
here in Colorado we have elitches and lakeside, but in MO they have worlds/oceans of fun.
Jericho Goering So many cool parks...I hope that someday I will get to visit them all!
Where I live (Virginia), Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens have been the big amusement parks to visit.
***** I have actually been to Busch Gardens in Virginia!
@@weirdpaulp That is one i never reached i feel it was the beer that kept me away from there when i was young very strict people were watching over me. I would break away from them now and then they just said to meet them at a certain place at a certain time to find them.
@@weirdpaulp You ever been to Williamsburg Virginia the old time place?
How dare 1 person to dislike Paul who could do that!!! XD
+Luigitimeless The same person who dislikes every single one of my videos!
Here in Buffalo we have things from The Story Land in a park called Fantasy Island and we had an old-school one that we go to over the border to Canada called Crystal Beach that I went to every summer when I was a kid
I remember those places have good memories of them You ever been to Kings Dominion or Hersey Park? Ocean City maybe? those type of parks and places i have been to a lot. A lot of what you did back then i did.
Hey Paul... do you remember the "Palisades Park"-themed commercial "Kennywood Park"? "Up... in the Pirate Ship, down... in the Raging Rapids... " Frankie Cannon did both the original and Kennywood versions.
Paul I really liked this video :) I thought it was cool that old park
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Gia Bono Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!
i grew up in pittsburg when i was a kid been to kennywood a few times i was so young i wasnt tall enought to ride the thunderbolt until 3 years later :)
Great video! Did you ever go to Hershey park or Williams Grove Amusement Park in PA? Williams Grove has been shut now for 10 or so years now.
jeremy cline Thanks! Even though I don't live that far away, I have still never been to Hershey Park! I need to get out there sometime! I never made it to Williams Grove. I read that the cars on their main roller coaster came from the legendary Palisades Park.
The big theme park for me as a kid was Thorpe Park, loved going there. Not been there for years, mainly because it's ridiculously expensive to get in to now.
It's sister park up north, Alton Towers is also virtually abandoned after two of their rollercoasters crashed resulting in several of the passengers having to have their legs amputated.
***** Wait, two of the rollercoasters crashed into each other ?!?
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL
Nooooo, they had two separate crashes. The big one where people lost limbs and the second one was the nail in the coffin of people fearing safety.
Did you go/ever hear of Action Park as well?
I just looked up Alton Towers and found the results very interesting. Firstly, there is NO mention of either of the crashes on their wikipedia page at all. There were also two news items from the past week: one was about how they are planning a new hotel to try to attract their customers back and the other one was an article about one of the crash survivors learning to walk again without her leg.
I had never heard of Action Park, so I looked that up as well. The deaths that occurred there are well documented on that Wikipedia page!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL
Very interesting that there's no mention of the accidents. Is the page edit locked at all? As it's a bit naughty if their own staff are editing the page. Conflict of Interest Etc.
But yeah, I read about Action Park on that Retroist website you're sometimes featured on. There's a documentary video online about it too. Pretty horrorific place!
Right, that's a no-no! I did some editing on my own Wikipedia page (only added some albums to my discography) and they threatened to ban me!
I love the Retroist, great site!
Some parks Ive been to are the big ones like Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida, as well as Six Flags Great America here in IL and Cedar Point in OH. Cedar Point used to have a whole Bernstain Bears section but I think they replaced it with Snoopy these days. Some smaller ones near me were Santa's Village & Kiddie Land. We used to always travel to the Wisconsin Dells all the time when I was younger and they had plenty of small theme and water parks: Noah's Ark, Family Land, Splash World, and Big Chief Go Kart World. Noah's Ark is still open but the others have either closed or been combined into Mount Olympus. Also, did not know you had a child Paul, major news dropped on me in this video. How old is your son now?
CoreysVlog Cedar Point was a park that I have been near probably almost a dozen times. Because I went to the Sea World in Sandusky that many times - but never across to Cedar Point! I had never heard of Santa's Village - so this is a park where all the rides are Santa/Christmas oriented? Sounds really cool! My son is 19 now. He has filmed and edited several of my music videos, like this one (in which he also plays the kid having the seizure): ruclips.net/video/tIOyKItlqCY/видео.html
My favorite amusement parks are Knobels and Dorney Park, because theyre the only ones ive been too!
TheSpyt67 Cool, where are they located?
I got to Knobels from philly in 1 hour 40 minutes
The laughing lady is gonna give me nightmares lol
+PMB827 she gave me daymares!
Atlanta - Six Flags - Z-Force:
-red head a-hole cousin cried
-I loved it
- the cockiest kid losing his will and crumpling in front of Z-Force. His confidant laughter became terrified tears.
Charles Williams *confident
Charles Williams haha, how the mighty have fallen
i had good memories at the great escape it looked simalar to kennywood and it had the school houses and the trains
mine was great escape had good memories there with my aunt
Kings island in Cincinnati and just for nostalgia Camden park in Huntington , wv.
wow! so fun! we had fantasy farm here in Cincinnati area had haunted house too, & a clown on a bench that scared me silly!
stephanie benesch Fantasy Farm! These names just get better and better!
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I love this video and counout lake is opend
Thanks! I hope to go there next season!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL and the blu streak is sturdy and my cabin is curved and yellow with three trees pleas come and visit next week have a great day
Probably the closest thing to where I live is Frontier City in Oklahoma City. There's roller coasters and I'm pretty sure the Charlie Daniels Band has some sort of lifetime contract to play there every year. Maybe Joan Jett too. I don't like throw up rides and shit so I don't go often. The last time I went I just walked around and drank over-priced beer.
munchycrunchypancake I am definitely in the class of "walk-er around-er" nowadays. But that's fine with me, I just like to look around and remember later!
What is stale air though? Is it like the air that smells bad?
+Luigitimeless Yeah it can smell bad. Basically it's air that is trapped somewhere for awhile and doesn't circulate. This air was in some kind of pump and it was released at you in a big puff.
conneaut lake park isn’t closed, i went there last october.
It was closed down when I made this video. It has since re-opened.
I'm sad Kiddieland closed in the Chicago metro area.
Kings Island in Cincinnati Ohio is my favorite
25143J2 From what I understand, that is a pretty large one.
one i remember..i dont know if you went or know about it..."frontiertown" i think it was in vermont...and also....how old were you when your son was born...cuz i had my kids at 17 ...was just wondering?
Daniel Lacombe I was 25 when my son was born - same age my dad was when I was born! I had never heard of "frontiertown" so I looked it up. We actually have something similar to that here in PA where I have been, the place is called Old Economy Village.
Fairyland Forest was actually destroyed by the hurricanes. That's why it closed.
+Amy Hamilton Oh. That's so sad.
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I know, man. My heart was broke when I found out. Wanted to take my kids one day.
hey weird paul do you have any video footage of going to the video arcade
No
Do you think you could do a video showing you comic book collection ?
I have had requests to do it. It is a VERY small collection. I will probably show them sometime.
Christi how are you doing lam fine would like you call me sorry going on Saturday please can see visit me please can you call me Good love toyou bebbykrueger love to good my love to you to call me sorry going on Good o oSaturday please out to eat jodi could visit me please can you call me
different from those vids were accustom to. why do you keep all those stuff. who did start it. you or your parents?
Gustavo Garcia Yes I only have a few videos like this one, I have one about the Disney Cruise: ruclips.net/video/gTK0_A8khKc/видео.html and one about Sea World: ruclips.net/video/Yf1pQaS7tW8/видео.html . I believe my grandmother was the one who kept lots of stuff first. She died when I was 7. My mother took after her and also kept lots of stuff. There is a photo somewhere of me when I am very small, maybe 3 years old and I am carrying a bag from a loaf of bread. I had cut pictures out of the newspaper and kept them in the bag.
did you ever go to chuck E cheeses in the 80s/90s?
GoonaTV Of course! The most memorable time I went there was in 2002: ruclips.net/video/BRF5a4eVvjg/видео.html
Oh thanks! Great days
Am I the only one that is kinda jealous about your child hood ?😆👍lol
***** I have been hearing this a few times lately lol
***** By the way...how do you make that thumbs up emoticon on here?!?
I'm using an iPhone. If you press the globe next to the numbers they have a bunch of emoji
aha! I don't have an iphone, but I do have the emoticons on my android. I will have to try commenting from there!
I've been to kennywood a lot over the past few years and my favorite rides there are the exterminator and the jack rabbit, and if i had to be honest I think I was born in the wrong era.
All I can wonder is if this is how this guy talks to his family
+Jack Ripper Everyone in my family talked at the same time. You had to talk loud to be heard.
woah dude you would like ghost wood esate you get to shoot lazers at ghosts and get points
+am catattack I have heard of those kind of attractions - sounds like a lot of fun to me!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I been on it about 3 times,the first time was in 3rd grade I was scared,. I rode it again in 7th grade and it was awesome
U mean u didn't ride the Blue Streak at Conneaut?? Classic coaster
I don't like roller coasters!
i count 10000 blinks!
GoonaTV Yeah...I have been having a lot of trouble with my eyes lately. Time to go to the doctor!
Laughing Sal
Have you ever seen Knoebels
I've never gotten over there.
I like your memories. I did a video of a local amusement park and welcome you to check it out!
Trish Mullins Thanks Trish, I will check it out!
Trish Mullins which one is it, the only thing I have coming up is the Point Pleasant boardwalk videos...
I’m sorry you got a headache
wasnt frankie yankovik wierd al?
Frankie Yankovic (1915-1998) was also an accordion player, but he was not related in any way to Weird Al.
I did not know you had a kid.
Yes. He just turned 21.
Your video are cool but their is like a high picth to voice in some of your videos or maybe it's just me???????
you should bring your son on camera some time
Maybe next time I see him I'll get him on tape. He has his own RUclips channel, too.