Places like this really should be on the national register of historic places, and regarded and protected for the treasures they are. As always, my friend, nicely done.

Randy is one of the reigning experts on the history of haunted house props.

13:33 is the reason why I watch your stuff.

I've lived in Erie my entire life and when I was a kid both of those rides scared the hell out of me. Still love them to this day haha, great learning about the history of them

The return of The Carpetbagger's two archnemeses: the dredded compressed air and the loud horn that could be in the FNAF game. Can't wait for you to be at a haunted house and have clowns know your name this season! 13:33 is the reason why I watch your videos.

It’s like I can smell the Whacky Shack through my phone 🤣🤣

I saw your first Waldameer video for the first time the other day. I’ve been to the park a couple times as a kid and I completely forgot the Wacky Shack existed! But I instantly remembered that it scared the absolute hell out of me as a kid. Thanks for brining that back. That was fun. Seeing it all lit up is fascinating.

It reminds me of the one that used to be in wildwood nj

Lol I’m right down the road from there! I don’t usually check my subs page (usually my reccomnded page is full of stuff). But I happened to catch this video right at upload! 💜 I’ve always loved Randy! I used to go to waldameer all the time when I was younger with my cousin and he used to operate the dark rides and we’d talk to him (when he was working pirates cove), and he’d give us some cool information on the dark rides Later on, I found out that he was responsible for restoring these rides, and I always thought that that was so amazing! He’s so passionate about his art, and maintaining the legacy of these rides, and I just love that so much. Thank you SOO much to you and Randy for creating such an amazing tour of this lovely ride (I was deathly afraid of it as a child, I rode it with my grandpa when I was three and it traumatized me, lol and then I refused to ride it until I was 12 😂) Now I love it, like most people. Much love and blessings!💜 hope that you enjoyed your second time in Erie!

Thanks so much, this was wonderful! It's the best of your content since your Meow Wolf video. Makes me want to study up for a trip to Erie, PA and Waldameer Amusement park.

My hometown!...Can't wait to visit Waldameer....Aug 4th!...Thank you for going again Jacob...totally Awesome you appreciate and love Nostaglia

I wish I would have known you were here! I can't express how absolutely awesome it is that you're covering a topic I love and a ride I grew up with!

This is one of the coolest dark rides I have ever seen! great video as always CB and thanks to the owner for giving such a great walk through!

This is now one of my most favorite videos on youtube ever. What a cool opportunity

Thanks for coming back to Erie!

i lived in erie many years , gosh i remember many kisses on the whacky shack with girls back in middle school, thank for the memories jacob

Love that heartbeat theme 👌

One of your best videos, enjoyed it very much!

Dark rides are so much fun!

I love Waldameer I go every summer

especially loved this episode. I am from Ashtabula Ohio, just 50 miles east of Cleveland. As a child in the 70's My Family visited Waldameer many times, Then Called Waldameer park. I have been through both of those rides on many occasions. This brings back a lot of good memories .

Hearing you scream in the background during Randy cam was funny. Great video Jacob!

So cool! Big Thank you to Randy!

With one wish we wake the will within Wacky Shake. I just got the Carpetbagger possum pin I wanted for my Birthday, It is so cutie and came with a cool signed selfie. I love it!

Waldameer is a 7 hour drive from here, but it is on my amusement park wishlist!

Trimpers’ Rides in Ocean City, MD has had a Pirate’s Cove walk-through since the mid-seventies. I used to go on every time, very similar to the one on this video, especially the beginning part. Thanks, Jacob! Loved it!

Carpet bagger is the best. Keep it up :D

Hi, Jacob! Very cool video, I enjoy them a lot. I live an hour East of you near a museum for Lucy Desi and the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. I think you would really enjoy those two places. As a bonus, we have a Lucy Desi Memorial Park where both a nice looking and an ugly statue to her exist. If you wanna check them out, entry is very cheap and the park is free. Thank, you!

I've been such a huge fan of your channel for years. today I was thinking about how lucky you are to be able to travel all over and experience all of this. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us!!! I've learned so much inside info about places I'll probably never visit. So cool! Thank you Mr. Carpetbagger 🥰

So awsome!,..I am amazed of how good and alive the crazy carnaval culture is in the U.S.A. Wish I could say the same about the Netherlands..but not even close!

Where do you find these little gems?,,,,Nice

I love old dark rides. They are the best. Thank you Jacob. Stay blessed

Great video!

It's just a blessing to see you come to my childhood amusement park.

HEY, JACOB Hello well You have to give Randy So much credit for Keeping that fun house open and still So Original as it is so thank you to him and To Everyone else who keeps theses places Alive and to you for showing us this cool stuff

Aww I know randy. He has the most amazing Halloween display I’ve ever seen. You should take a trip there @thecarpetbagger

I live 2 miles from there!!! Too bad I couldn’t see you, hope you liked Erie! Also I didn’t know the bill Tracy designed that ??? I’ve been going on that ride for 11- 12 years now 😂

Word, I live in Erie. So glad too see Erie on the map. Glad that you came to waldameer. I really thought waldameer was just a small amusement park.

Hello Jacob 🙋🏽. Thanks for sharing this with us 😊.

Hi & Good Morning from Eagle Rock, California! :) I love your channel -- no travel or history channel does what you do! Thank you, cheers, and x/o! :)

Thank you so much for sharing this place. It's so amazing

This was really cool! I love old dark rides. Can’t wait til haunt season this year. Thanks Jacob

Bagger, thank you for this video; it seems to me that your growing passion for the history, (not just the jump scares or air), has led to traditional attraction caretakers to invite you to share their treasures, feeling your sincere interest. What generous people have shared their "behind the scenes" with you!...You have grown tremendously; wonderful human niches of American history, that is a wonder to see and share.

Jacob, this was awesome!!! Keep up the excellent work!

Absolute history lesson of my childhood!!!! Born in 1966! Ive seen so many when I was a child, teen...and still love going to see them at 55 years old today! Thanks for what you do.

They had a Whacky Shack at Idorha Park in Youngstown, Oh. not to far from Eerie. Sadly it closed down in 1987 after a tremendous fire broke out in 84 destroying the Wildcat Rollercoaster, the Lost River ride and the main office where all the records were kept. It was one of the top 5 oldest amusement parks in America back then. I believe their Whacky Shack went to Eerie.

Love the behind the scenes

This is an incredible sight. Can’t believe they’ve maintained it so perfectly.

My grandparents live in Erie and almost every summer we went to Waldemeer. It was so much fun and Wacky Shack was my favorite ride. I really need to head back up there one of these days

That was so much fun!!

We did that ride a few years ago! Such a fun park!

I'm a native Erieite who has visited the park countless times. The Pirates Cove was my favorite. Thanks for doing this.

By far one of the best videos yet! Loved the behind the scenes tour!

Super cool video! I have loved the Tracy dark rides at Trimper's in Ocean City, MD ever since I was a kid. It's great to see the ride is being upheld in so many ways from the original design. Thanks for sharing. :)

Thank you. I've always been curious about behind the scenes.

Carpetbagger, This episode was so great I watched it twice.. True Americana....

I love dark rides. The cheesy-er the better😁

i love yr videos i hope you can come to california soon specifically bay area

Amazing videos & quality for sure, mesmerizing Content, one the best Vloggers Carpetbagger. keep'em coming thanks again.

This was my CHILDHOOD ride!!! This was sooo cool! Thank you so much!

This was awesome Jacob! Well done 🙌🏻

Huge dose of nostalgia here! Erie PA born and raised, left 11 years ago and miss Waldameer terribly. One of these summers I need to make a trip up there. It was also super cool to see the up close, behind the scenes and hear the history of the rides.

Way to land one helluva great Carpetbagger video! Yeah, things are closed, but Jacob keeps us all on perpetual road trip. Behind the scenes at Waldameer is a great pull for your viewers!

Welcome back to Erie, Jacob! We love our hometown gem Waldameer Park, and we're so glad you featured it on your channel!

Awesome

Love the 60fps it's like I'm there along with all the variety of content. Carpet bagger is light years ahead of the woo, Jordan the lion etc.

Hi

I need to go to this. So many of these props are so similar to Knoebels. And now I know why.

Love it! I miss the Wacky Shack at Dorney park in Pa. At the end, there was a guy flushing himself down a toilet saying, "goodbye cruel world"! Lol

I can not get over how amazing this is!

So cool!!!

Jacob is a time traveler in crocs.

Jacob on Randy Cam lol, fun vlog x

Thank you so much for the Wacky Shack ride through! I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and our amusment park, Bell's had the Phantasmagoria dark ride. I miss it so much and this video brought back so many memories, I could even smell the water from the giant skull lagoon that was in our ride.

This is so good. This classic stuff is art and history. So good to see its being well cared for and maintained.

Got my first postcard today……thanks!

Many elements of the Wacky Shack reminded me of The Golden Nugget at Roseland Park (closed in 1985) in Canadaigua, NY. A beautiful amusement park on the shores of Canadaigua Lake. I cried on my last visit, it was my childhood park. The carousel from the park is now in Destiny USA in Syracuse. The roller coaster, The Skyliner, is now at Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pa. Jacob rode The Skyliner last year in his video at Lakemont Park.

You should check out conneaut lake park. Devils den was a dark ride there.

Man I always miss you when you are here. Thanks for coming back to out little park. And thank you for the history.

I am so pumped for you getting to do this! Amazing!

I live in Utah and have been going to Lagoon my whole life (which has 2 Bill Tracy attractions). You have given me new appreciation for these attractions-as a kid I felt like they were lesser versions of Disneyland’s haunted mansion. I hope Lagoon continues to preserve these iconic attractions.

That was fantastic ! Thank you for sharing with us.

Kudos to the ones who keep these classic rides running. The behind the scenes tour was awesome.

Kennywood, here we come- my childhood amusement park along with Westview Park( now sadly gone)! Welcome to Pittsburgh next!

For some reason i think the 3 skeleton heads saying ...i have no body had me laughing. Also liked the old school scene with the shark breaking into the ship with the one legged pirate. Classics. Americana.

After loosing so many parks in Ohio this is one we discovered a while ago and loved it. Great video. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this! We live about 10-15 minutes from Waldameer and these are two of my favorite rides. So cool to see them in a new way :).

I was just there on June 19th!!!! It would’ve been so cool to run into you! I absolutely love the Whacky Shack.

i went here all the time as a little kid, this was one of my absolute favorite rides, along with pirate cove. i’ve been on both abt 100 times each. tons of great memories!

I got to ride the Whacky Shack as a kid, and my father actually worked at the park when he was in high school, occasionally at Pirates Cove, where he and a friend climbed into the rafters to stomp on the ceilings to scare the people walking through. Loved this behind the scenes look at a classic dark ride.

Having grown up in Erie and actually working at Waldameet in college, I found this video very nostalgic! I looked right at the Pirates Cove every day from thr ride I operated, the Ols Mill (which isn't there anymore.) Great job and thanks for bringing back some great memories!

The lights on tour was really cool!

Wichita had a whacky shack park closed and it just rotted away

This is an excellent look at two of Tracy's creations. My parents first brought me to Waldameer the year the Pirate's Cove opened. It and the Whacky Shack are still my favorite rides there. You mentioned that some of the sounds came from a defunct amusement park. It was Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio. They had a Whacky Shack there, but it wasca funhouse, not a dark ride. The park did have two dark rides built by Tracy; the Gold Nugget, which was later remodeled into the Kooky Castle.

As someone who grew up getting to ride the Trimpers Haunted House by Bill T. Every single summer of my life until this moment, it was WONDERFUL to hear this man speak! So much knowledge!

Amazing stuff. I'd happily spend a day at a park that was nothing more than classic dark rides. Great video - really interesting to see behind the scenes.

Gotta love some good old Bill Tracy.

Very happy to see you visit N W Pennsylvania and showcasing this local treasure ! Thank you.

That was a REALTRIP of a video! Thanks!😃👍🏻

I was a northeastern Brownie in 1970, but we didn't get to go to Waldameer. I think our biggest field-trip took us from grade school to the community center where most of our troop meetings were held, & we made God's-eyes & other crafties to gift our folks with. We proceeded from there to our troop leader's large, grassy, front lawn where we made S'mores. Her house sat between Brookhaven Elementary, Brookhaven Community Center, & La Mesa Mobile-Home Park, where many of us lived. After the S'mores cookout, we called it a day & walked the short distance home to play, have dinner & do our homework. Wish I would've been in the Whacky-Shack-riding Brownie troop - their field trips seemed much more adventuresome than ours were.