Jolly Roger (Nunley's Happyland) Amusement Park, Bethpage, Long Island, NY 1961
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- Also called Smiley's Happyland at some point. Like most locals, I always just thought of this as Jolly Roger. Check out the Herschell Mite Mouse rollercoaster. Brief shot of the NYC skyline at the beginning.
Nunley's was in Baldwin on Sunrise Highway, this is Jolly Roger (in Bethpage/Plainedge on Hempstead Turnpike and 107)
I worked there in 1968 called Smiley's Happyland at that time. Jolly Rogers was just the restaurant not the same owners. John (do not remember his last name) was owner of Smiley's he also built and owned the batting cages across Hicksville Rd.
Grew up in Syosset and went on the weekends to Jolly Rogers. It was a blast
I still remember flying in the helicopter.
Watching " Wonderama" then going to church @ St. Bernard. Go home to eat lunch, then on to Jolly Rodgers. Then home to a dinner of pot roast.
A Sunday growing up in Levittown in the 1960's.
We had the greatest childhoods growing up in Levittown, L.I.
It's definitely Jolly Roger. Especially loved the little carts you drove by hand! AH, Good tims, good times
I grew up here :) Wow, I LOVED it there. Great fuzzy memories.
I never got to go on any of the rides; perhaps I was too young(?) I still think of it to this day! My mother used to like going there for the pastrami on rye and I seem to remember the crinkle-cut French fries and chocolate ice cream with marshmallow sauce.
i Remember Jolly Rogers So Well My Dad Used To Take Me There a lot When I Was a Kid Love it Great Place To Go
I thought of it as Jolly Roger, too. Wow, I never saw it in 1961 and there were so many rides that were gone by the time I started going there around 1967. I am particularly amazed that they had that Mite Mouse coaster; it was almost like an adult coaster, and I had no idea that they ever had a ride like this until I saw this video. They also had a more updated ferris wheel when I used to go there.
I loved this place as a kid! ❤❤
We may not have had Happyland, but we did have Belmont Park and Disneyland was about a 2+ hour drive up the freeway.
I LIVED 3 BLOCKS FROM THERE 1956 -1995. TOMMY R.
How sick do you have to be to have given this a thumbs down.. LOL
For anybody living in Hicksville and surrounding areas at that time, Jolly Rogers was a frequent stop after returning from a day at Jones Beach...what a place for a kid to grow up during the 50's-60s!
One of the best videos on RUclips. I grew in Levittown in the 50s & 60s and we called it Jolly Rogers. That was really just the restaurant... Nunleys was name of the small amusement park... no matter, it was a great place. Too bad this video doesn't show the indoor area with the carousel, skee ball, and all the old machines ( fortune teller, pinball, etc). Wow !
we did too, only knew it as Jolly Rogers, great times there as a young guy, me & my brother. around the late 1950's very early 60's
And that creepy old calliope !I'll never forget the sound of the horns on the boat ride!
I remember it pretty well. Most of my time those days was next door at Wetson’s with our hot rods and setting up street races on Rt. 109. But after marriage, we had two sons who loved Jolly Roger’s. I had forgotten how good the rides were. A great video.
Omg! So glad this is here😁 I grew up in Levittown and remember Jolly Rogers...especially the indoor rides.
The boat ride was my favorite 😂😂😂
Greetings, grew up in Wantagh/Levittown, Gardeners Ave,Salk,MacArthur. What a head trip, I was hoping to see the carousel and band/organ machine. They had penny machines where you could crank a short movie and skeet ball. My friend Dad ran the restaurant in the 60's. Across the street Pergament (sp) and I remember a wine and cheese place in the 70's a road the street. Maybe next door a Wetsons burgers. Growing up on the Island was great. Bethpage.... LEM Grumman....Enough
I grew up in Levittown also. The wine and cheese place was the Back Barn. They had live entertainment, bands. I worked there in 76 ☺😊
Oh, wow! Jolly Rogers in Bethpage...Brings back some great old memories from being a kid growing up in N Massapequa, fifty years ago...
It was definitely in Bethpage. I grew up in Bethpage, and grew up going to Jolly Rogers! On Hempstead Tnpk! One of my favorite childhood memories!
Does anyone remember that inside Jolly Roger there was a glass booth with little m,mechanical musicians? it's the reason a started playing violin. still on it after 63 years
The calliope you are referring to is now in Bush Gardens,Virginia in the German town Octobrtfest beer tent
My father and I built the Mini Golf course at Smileys Happy Land. Became good friends with the owner(s) John and Mildred Tarnow. They were two very fine people.
This was one of my favorite places as a kid -- we always called it Jolly Roger's. The carousel was my favorite ride. I also liked the ferris wheel and Mite Mouse.
Thanks for the memories!!! I loved this place and it always breaks my heart when I go to A.C. Moore and remember that it is built on the graveyard of this one time happyland of so many children!!!
I grew up in Bethpage in the 50-60"s. What a great memory. Jolly Rogers!! My parents took me to a barber shop across the street and then we would go to Nunleys and always had a great Nathans Hot Dog after riding and playing.
I used to go there in the late 60's and early-mid 70's and I remember an indoor section with bumper cars. I only new this a Jolly Roger's but apparently was owned by the same people that owned Nunley's in Baldwin which remained open into the 90's, so I guess a some point, Nunley's was part of their name.
Hey Kids, I started going to Jolly Rogers around 1963 when I was 5. We lived in Queens, but my Grandparents were in Farmingdale. I'm sure a lot of us were there at the same time. Anyone seen the Little Red Haired girl I had a crush on? :)
Here I am!
I worked at 'Nunleys' as a kid from 1959 - 1961. Since I was to young to run the rides, I swept up the trash and also had a long wooden stick with a nail at the end for the cigarette butts. We always went to Jolly Roger for lunch. I still remember those thick sandwiches. Then when "Wetsons" opened we bought hamburgers by the bag full. Mostly I remember the gasoline price wars between those gas stations on the opposite corners. The pushed gas prices from 25.9 down to 19.9 ! Good deal for me since I was only making $1.00 per hour. Good memories.
Wetsons was better than Mc Donalds in those days.
Yup--I remember Wetson's, too. And reasonably priced gas!
If i remember correctly , Jolly Rodgers (great hotdogs) was the restaurant and Nunley's was the attached amusement park .. One big strip mall now .. sad ... too bad no pictures of the indoor rides and the classic carousel.. always trying for the golden ring ..
We lived on Celestial lane in Levittown. Such great memories. Our neighborhood was awesome! Maryann Magirl I think was their last name...Tommy Valoo...Mrs Coumo right next door. I'm 56 now and live in California. But will always be a NewYorker 🤗🤗🤗
My family also only knew it as Jolly Roger.
Good memories of Jolly Roger and the inside amusements. It was a birthday party venue as well, and would visit a few times a year. From mid/late 60s until early 70s.
Oh my god! I remember all of this! The little hand powered locomotives, the other rides! That really brings me back! Thanks!
I grew up in Westbury and we went here frequently. Like most others, we called it Jolly Rogers. Seeing this video with the kid with the sport jacket and bowtie reminded me of how we always drssed up for birthday parties in the early 60s.
The video was fun to watch!! Kids look like they were having a really good time :-) however, this could have just been done silently. It didn't need that gay music in the background!!
I had my own idea when I was a little kid. I just called the place the white building
Jolly Roger's! We lived in East Meadow and went there often. There was also a McDonald's right down the road, which may have been the only one on LI because I don't ever remember seeing another one back then.
Went to Jolly Rodgers to eat after visiting my father's grave at Pinelawn, I always told myself I will take my kids there, but it closed before I had children. Was a great place.
I remember this place as a child, went to bethpage schools
I REMEMBER GOING THERE
Alot of those surrounding buildings are still there..
You can see the building where Mavis tires is ,the diner next to it and the the shopping strip where Mr Beerys is.....nowadays.....also the gas station across the street is still there and the huge monolith where Singletons is can be seen as well....If you look close appearance wise a lot still looks similar.
Was at Knoebel's in Pennsylvania a few years ago and they had those. It's possible they could be the very ones as they buy rides from venues that go out of business. They were my favorite at JRs too. Knoebel's also had some beautiful vintage Bumper Cars.
Wow! Truly happy days!
We always talk about things that take us back, but this really takes me back. I spent many joyful hours here, despite the fact that I was too small to reach the rings at the indoor Carousel. 1961 is a fleeting memory at this late date, but for a brief moment it was yesterday once more (apologies to Karen Carpenter).
Great stuff, I do a fan page on facebook and we will all love this stuff.
had my 10 year birthday party here in ‘53😀
The Hideaway bar became Rich M. Dixons comedy club mid 70's. Eddie Murphy often did stand up there along with Rosie O'donnell and so many popular other comedians. I worked at Jolly Rogers through High School 68-70. I bought my first car across the street at Mal Pierce Pontiac from moneys earned. A gorgeous low milage 1967 Chevy Camaro. $1,200 whats it worth today?
Bring home a good report card, birthdays, cousins come to visit.... Good old days...
Hey, Anyone remember the Hideaway bar and restaurant on Hicksville Road, a little south of where Jolly Roger was? It was a great place in the late 60's and early 70's to eat. have a drink and dance to the juke box. We would play the Kingston Trio, "Scotch and Soda" over and over. ,
Loved this place growing up!
WOW THAT BRINGS BACK SOOOO MANY MEMORIES! THANK YOU
I remember Jolly Roger. I went to Northedge, lived right around the block on Hoover Lane. Wow, It looks just like I remember.
As for the name, I distinctly remember that the ride tickets said Nunley's when I was there as a kid--even though we all called it Jolly Roger's.
Thank you for posting this!!! We used to go everytime we visited my grandparents. Back then, I wasn't allowed to do the roller coasters or go for the gold ring on the carousel because I was too young/small. My favorite was the arm-powered railcar: I'd go as fast as I could and get so mad when someone in front of me went slow, lol. Oh, the fun memories!!!
Such a shame this was before my time. I was born in 1977.
Remember when they use to to have a can food drive you would bring a can and play all day.
Yes,it definitely closed in that timeframe. I remember driving past it for the last time that morning and then later that day seeing it gone. Perhaps you're thinking of Nunley's which closed I believe in the late 90's?
The calliope is now in Bush Gardens German Octoberfest beer tent!
When did it close? I left in 1977 at 7, and this place remains a magical treasure lost
I loved to go on the helicopter ride 😊 The car dealership across the street became a Sneaker Circus store.
Phew that was fantastic talk about going back in time....
I've been going there ever since I was kid in the 50's up until they closed sometime in the 70's. Love the place, and the restaurant as well. Had one of my birthday party's there.
Took my kids there in the late 70's.
THANK YOU, SAFER AND MORE FUN DAYS BACK THAN
Love this, thanks!
So remember this as a kid
From Uniondale, me and my friends walked there just to see the excitement. We walked nearly 8 miles, but it was so worth it and wonderful.
Then Jahn's, then the roller skating rink. Good fun. We were blessed to have such a good upbringing.
Lol, you walked from Uniondale? Get outta here!
@@ras124 it's true, kids walked everywhere back in the 60's. It was nothing, we were young and fearless.☺🏃🌻
@@terryfriend16 5 hour walk each way, yeah ok
@@ras124 it's true. We had just so much money and we didn't want to spend it on the bus.
I loved this place as a kid.....living in Massapequa, it was a bike ride away. The hot dogs were favorites, piled high with sauerkraut .....great life....thanx Jolly Rogers.....what a blast....
Thanks for posting this. I remember Nunley's Happyland. Yeah--we all called it Jolly Roger's but as other have said, that was just the restaurant portion of the property. I got into arguments with friends who insisted on calling the amusement portion Jolly Roger's. I once got the brass ring on the Merry-Go-Round. I might have even kept it rather than turn it in for a prize. I can't remember everything from the 60s any more. ;-)
What pontiac dealer was it
Mal Pierce
Yes, as a child I used to ride my bike in the development across the street from it. Always kind of wondered what it was because in the daytime you never saw anyone there but I kind of figured it was a small bar or dining place as you'd see cars there at night.
Wow, I'm gonna be 50 in 10 days and I remember being taken there by my parents when I was 6-7 years old! As we got older we wanted to go to Adventure Land, Coney Island or Palisades park ( at least Adventure Land and Coney Island are still here)!
I don't think it will let me post the link, but it's Long Island and NYC places no more.
I LIVED 3 BLOCKS FROM J.R THERE EVERY DAY
What road was this on
Hempstead Tpke
This is in Lynbrook not Bethpage I went there my entire childhood and it was awesome.
+Joseph O'Hara My family's home movie notes say Bethpage, as well as every reference I find online--I just looked and didn't find any that connect it to Lynbrook...
+Joseph O'Hara According to online sources, the Nunleys started with a park in Baldwin, maybe that's what you're recalling...
Actually it was on the border of Lynbrook and Baldwin on Sunrise Highway in Long Island not everything on the internet is true :)
+Joseph O'Hara Baldwin and Lynbrook do not border each other. Where Nunley's was located on Sunrise Highway is the border of Baldwin/Freeport.
+Joseph O'Hara Its Bethpage my friend, The Corner of 107 Hicksville road, and 24 Hempstead Turnpike.