One thing I loved about that period in time is that people dressed up to do EVERYTHING. The men are wearing suits and hats and the women, dresses and shawls. There's something very cool about that.

Filming on a roller coaster with 35mm film in 1929 was a major undertaking. Add audio and wow. The batteries alone were huge.

i went on the airplane coaster once,and next summer it was gone,then later the fun house,magic carpet ride,never to be rebuilt,those were fun times,esp over the top!

Amazing that they had sound also Sound came out in 1929. So that camera was top of the line back then

How did they keep their hats on? Great shots..

Its great this park is still open when so many smaller parks have closed the last 40 years.Those folks that rode that roller coaster had hard times after 1929 as the Great Depression started.

I grew up in Rye and have ridden the Dragon Coaster every summer since I hit the height line back in 1969. This footage is absolutely wonderful.

Amazing,my grandmother was 7 years old in 1929

I went to rye play land today as a senior trip and that was the first ride we did(dragon coster) and when we went down it felt like gravity was pushing you hard down but lucky me i made it. 😃😊😅

So crazy how it's the same and still running grate I've rode this once but can't tell you about it because I was scared and had my eyes closed haha

All those fabulous hats ! ! ! ! ! !

aww this just touched a special place in my heart lol I've been going to playland since I was 4 and I always wanted to see playland back when. This was cool

THE DRAGON COASTER IS SO OLD..... MOSES SAT IN THE FRONT ROW

I'm so glad I saw this originally from Rye I had a good friend who worked in the Rye Playland Paint Shop Lawrence McGowan

GREAT quick views of the AIRPLANE off to the right! Wooohooo!! Loved those trains!

btw,if you lost your hat,there was a 98% chance you got it back at lost+found,a different era 50-60's,honest people.

LOVE RYE PLAYLAND DURING THE 1970'S! MISS THOSE OLD WIND-UP NICKELODEONS BY THE BOARDWALK.

@ 2:31 - "I'm gonna get out of this!" LOL

Yes, sadly the trains seen here in the video were replaced in 1989.

It's a shame that the 1st downhill is cut-out, and you can't get a good view of the dragon's mouth... if there even was one in 1929! Amazing footage. Where did you get this? Hard to believe there's audio too for `29!

I grew up across the parking lot from Playland in the 60-80s on Roosevelt ave that sound takes me back!

its so weird cause i live in port chester which is about 10minutes away and ive rode this roller coaster at least 100 times in my life. i love it.

YAYA Playland, best place ever, I love how right next to the ride they have one of the original carts sitting there. It was so cool sitting in it to get to see what the original actually looked like.

omg I went on that ride yesterday!!!!It rocks

At 1:26 the gravity pushed me down and I felt like my body was stretching

Okay, was anyone else keeping an eye for the guy with the hat, next to the woman? I was waiting to see his hat fly off LOL

great old film. brings back happy memories as a kid going to rye playland.

It's not about the speed of the roller coaster. It's the acceleration that makes a ride intense. The Dragon Coaster is tame because its drops aren't very steep, and its turns are wide and high off the ground. The Airplane Coaster was about the same size, but it featured rapid changes of direction and hellish spirals.

Playland is Wonderful. Remember the Caterpillar ride in Kidde-land and the pony rides. Those were the days!

The good days of the amazing Fred Church trains rather than those crappy Morgan trains.

Resident of New Rochelle, ive ridden this ride countless times so much fun, even though it's not the best wooden coaster in the world, it's cool.

World's oldest pov?

very cool video very historical

It probably didn't take much. Judging by this video, those coasters back then were moving at the speeds equivalent of a grandpa taking a Sunday drive these days.

The “Airplane” is the best coaster rip!I wish Playland would remake it on its original spot.I have seen this park have many different coasters that were removed or dint operate for long.I wish they would expand towards the land, going to the marsh in between the paddle boat lake and the sound.God,I used to go 3 times a week all year around with my friends.We would take our dates there practically my whole town would be there.All my friends worked there during the summer.In the winter we ice skate at the arena.The rangers practiced there aswell.I remember drinking my 40 oz of ole E there on the board walk and would get a reading from the original Zoltar from big It was on the board walk headed toward the beach...What incredible days in west Chester ny and my second hometown of 10573!

Those trains were the same ones used on Coney Island's "TORNADO" (The Bobs) coaster ........

wow!Thats rare footage!Nobody screams until they go in the dragon!I went on recently and the onlytime nobody screams is in the dragon!lol

now, THIS is history!

Amazing video!

Wow I love this. Also, the best seat is the back on this coaster lol

WOW no hats blew off !!!

Complete with Authentic Sounds!

Very cool. That was great footage. I love the stuff. I never went on the Dragon Coasterbecause i was always too scared but now, riding it through the camera, i think i can handle it.

Rode on that coaster quite a few times

I wonder how well they were strapped in. The seats look like one long bench for two

not only the seats, the speed is alot faster too.

i love the dialog. great video...

1929 was the last year for peace and prosperity until 1946.

0:10 this is where the bass starts

Do you know how many goddamn hats I lost at Playland!?!?

Went on that ride

In 2029 it will turn 100 Years Old!

1929 OMG those people are probably really old by now 😲

Who know everyone would be videoing rollercoasters like these in the future

Mariah Careys grandma was riding the Dragon Coaster in this video

Omg i went on that ride saturday it was sooo awesome but i was scared because some people got stuck up there a few minutes b4

I went on this when I was a kid, at 14 years of age and they forgot to strap me down and it's a lot faster now then it was back then. I had to hold on for dear life as I was thrown out of my seat 3 times, I had one leg off the side of it, and I almost died.

look they have hats on now they dont let you wear hats :D

Was it 1989? It's possible. Wikipedia says the early 80s, but I remember riding the old ones which were red and black in 1986-1987. The front portion of the coaster was upright. The aerodynamic turquoise ones were replaced soon after.

That Hat fascinated me why didn't he take it off, it must have been stuck on, interesting footage.

I reckon they changed the roller coaster ucs it was so old back then

it was a Sunday drive compared to the airplane coaster.

Did they change the trains on this rise? I rode this last summer, and the train looked very different.

yea i like this video but they people seem to have not much emotion compared to people today.

Play Land is still openn todayy ??

How tight was those guys hats and caps???

Ya, how come the hats didn't get blown off.?.. I thought they were all dead while they were riding that Dragon! ! !

What was so notorious about the Aeroplane Coaster?

Maybe back then this rollercoaster was fun, but today it's outdated and is not as fun anymore because of advancements in technology to make better and more extreme rollercoasters.

am going there friday

damn they just jumped out, no setbelt

@DoorsOfConniption This was the late 20's early 30's...

Lol not everyone,. Shirley Temple is still alive.

@wetr1234 not exactly, but is was a period when Americans actually had class and decency

Too bad GoPros didn’t exist in the 1920s... 🤷‍♀️

i live near this park

It’s 2022 Monday may30😅

surveillance... camera man. huh.

lol i went to this ride this year during the dark my friend smacked me at the head xD

@hetnhdf there could be one still alive who knows?

Riding w/ a hat on?

@lisag19671 It's a lot more intense now lol

@hetnhdf please do explain the humor in that

@vitomecca you know what's funny? Nothing, because it's not.

no there not there just 80 or 70 years old

dude....why the hell are you writing like that??

wft a man on 2:00

FIRST OF ALL ITS KINDA CREEPY HOW WERE WCHING DEAD PEOPLE.........WHOOOPS IM TYPING IN CAPS anywayz how did the hats stay on their heads lol

LOL

lol most likely XD

@hetnhdf lol yupp they all dead

I doesnt look that scary as today

ya know whats funny everyone in this video is dead now

That is one boring roller coster