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Fun fact about the caterpillar ride at Canobie: The caterpillar ride used to be a very common ride in the US after it’s debut in the 1920s. However, there are only two remaining caterpillar rides in the US, including the one at Canobie.

You should REALLY do a history video in Storyland, Glen NH- That would be so cool! They have a book you can buy that has LOADS of the parks history!

I worked summers at Canobie Lake Park 1963-1966. I remember when they bought & installed the Rubiks Cube light/speaker system. The Wurlitzer Band Organ, Model 153 on the Merry-go-Round is the original organ on that ride I believe. A special band organ maintenance man would come from out of state yearly to check & replace payers as needed. During my time working at Canobie I had the opportunity to go back stage at the Ballroom where I’d see old posters on the was of musical groups (1940s +) that had entertained there. I had seen Herman’s Hermits & The Searchers play at the Ballroom. Other groups I remember that played there were The Loving Spoonful, The Who, & Gene Pitney, Sonny & Cher (I saw them walking through the park by the wooden structure roller coaster). These were all Friday night events with WBZ Radio personality Dave Maynard as program host. I had also attended a high school prom at the Ballroom. The windows overlooking Canobie Lake offer a nice view of the Lake during evening events. Wednesday nights was fireworks night.

You are correct at 7:24 and the train did loop around the way you mentioned.

I go there all the time! I just went again like last week and I saw that that fountain was under construction

Ok I'm sorry to spam, I just keep remembering things: The corkscrew is actually an Arrow Dynamics corkscrew design, and there are only 10 left still in operation! We're lucky to have it! Also, no one is allowed to actually SWIM at canobie lake. It's a reservoir! And the water you're drinking from the park is actually all directly from the lake!

oh my god a little piece of the 1964 world's fair at an amusement park i went to as a kid :0 that's amazing

I got a convoy lake park ad on this video

#RubikxCube64Light - I always wondered about those cool light posts at CLP - thanks for enlightening us to their history!

I love the videos

Didnt know the spaceship was still on property, that's awesome! Couple things you could've included, the original stone entrance over by the Mexican restaurant over by the dance hall I believe( there is a plaque somewhere over there ) the carousel is one of the oldest park attractions.. built in 1903 and I believe brought to the park in 1906. Another quick tidbit about your (actually our fav ride )is policy pond was the original name of canobie before it was renamed , hence the name for the Policy Mining Co in the mine of lost souls and also the Policy Pond log flume.

They have a new water park castaway island I love history loved the video ❤️

I remember going to Canobie Lake Park for my seventh birthday. I remember riding the old train around the park. I need to go back here since it’s been years because I wanna check out the new waterpark. Hashtag 1964 World Fair light.

10 place plus nice sunglasses Ben :D

Huge trip down memory lane, dude. I grew up going there. Whenever my dad would take me I felt like I was going to the best place on earth. I remember the swimming pool on the left when you'd first enter the park, I remember the Swamp ride heading towards Yankee Cannonball, think it was before the Calypso -is that still there? The Galaxy was my very first roller coaster, was really sad to see that one go. The Whip was somewhere up front. There was a roller skating rink down back by the theatre somewhere. It has changed so much...last time I was there the line cutting was absolutely obnoxious. But still remember the best times of my childhood there. Really wish someone had video footage of The Swamp, that was so cool. Cheers 🥃🥃

There used to be an old dark ride , The Swamp . They removed it in the mid 1980s.

Been there 100's of times and never noticed or knew the history of the '64 light. Excited to go back and see it (if its still there 4 years after this video was posted). I've also ridden that spaceship many times, was my fav ride as a kid.

Aww i want to go there To bad it's Abandoned.Btw Nice Vid Ben

If you ride the Untamed when you're at the top of the hill, if you look straight across you can see a better view of the rocket

Going there next Friday can’t wait to tell everyone meh know Edge about Conor lake park from you

I'm here

Thanks for the memories!! I rode the rocket ship when I was a kid!

Yeah you got the train station route correct. I worked on the train summer 2007 and 2008. I loved it

The rocketship is actually right next to where we keep all the supplies for screeemfest! There's tons of cargo boxes full of walls and fog machines

Does anybody else remember the old Matterhorn flying bobs ride? Man, that thing was fun!

Rubix cube 64 light

Love the canon or vids!!!

Alot of the trash cans at Canobie came from the 1964 world's fair as well.

I love this park I’ve Been their it’s so much fun

I'm so happy they still have the old nickelodeons in the old train station 7:48 I remember going on the Space Shuttle ride and frankly it was pretty lame. If memory serves, there was a little round screen at the tip that had a video emulation of space travel. It also tilted about 45 degrees up to make it feel like you were about to take off lol Pretty cheesy, as was the Vertigo Theater, which was next to the Paratroopers ride (kind of near the Psychodrome) Didn't know about the 1964 World's Fair light! Very cool!

I work at Canobie Lake Park on the Grounds crew. I went by that spot several times practically evrey morning this summer while helping to get the park ready to open each day, and somehow I never noticed this light pole was even there, nevermind that it had a unique top. I will have to go take a look tomorrow!

There was a "mouse" coaster over by where the frisbee ride is now, do you remember what it was called? It's bugging me now. LOL

I've been in that rocket ship ride. It was a carnival flat ride. I remember a carnival had one when I was a little kid and I got to ride it. There were a four rows of small seats in it. The walls were carpet. There was a small rear projection movie screen in the front. The rocket tipped up at less then a 45 degree angle and would rotate side to side. It would have been cool if it could barrel roll and send us upside down, but it didn't. It just rocked back and forth. I recall the movie they showed in the front being a complete goofball comedy. They were trying to launch us to the moon, but the rocket went out of control and ended up flying through all kinds of crazy places, like down streets, and through people's houses and stuff while terrified people dodged out of the way. I remember specifically someone opening the front door to their house and us flying right in, up the stars, through the rooms, and out a window, causing chaos the whole way. They definitely went for "goofy comedy" with that rocket ride. I think that there are still operators running that ride too, but instead of using the movie projector and rear projection screen, they just hung a flat screen TV in front of the screen and the video it plays is probably on a computer in it on a hard drive or somethin.

my cousins grew up right near the park, back in the 80's. whenever we went up there in the summer, we'd walk through the woods behind the park, right up to the fence to watch the roller coaster. you could time when you'd see the coaster come down the hill based on the antique cars and when they went by. though i only ever actually went into the park once. great video. it's nice to see regional amusement parks keeping it up against the monsters like 6 flags, busch gardens, disney, universal, etc.

My great grandfather's brick and mortar company layed out all the foundations at canobie

I'm happy I found your channel, I'm from NH so it's cool learning about things in my area that I don't already know the history behind! Thanks for sharing!

First also hi Ben.

Great video; used to work at Canobie Lake Park in the late 80s to early 90s. What a great place for a teenager to work!

Been going there since at least 1980. Definitely a favorite memory from my childhood.

I just looked on Google Maps and you can see the rocket ship in the woods if you look closely!

I still hope they can revive Toys r Us I’ve only been there 2 Times Cause when I grow up I wanted to take my future children or child to that place but it’s no more sadly I feel bad for the next Generation 😢

I miss this so much

Cool Video!as usually,also don't forget about the canobie arcade Video! I'LL BE WAITING!

Fun fact number two The rock structure that you showed in the beginning of the video used to be a Native American Indian style boat ride for kids. I remember riding it once as a little little kid. You got in these little Mini kayaks and they went around the water through the Little Rock tunnel.

Oh my gosh the rocket ship! I remember that as a kid. Man I think the last time I've been to canobie was in 2010. I hear the corkscrew got removed

Great video, must be a blast from the past for people who would remember those things. We used to vacation to Storyland, Six Gun City, Clarks, and Santas Village in NH quite often when i was a kid but i've never been to this place. Thanks for sharing! #rubixcube64light

First park and first roller coasters i ever went on. Still go back each year 35 years later.

Thank you so much for the secret I’m going later tomorrow and I will definitely be looking at the fountain and I will be looking for that special :D

Thank you for remembering my childhood

Everyones talking of how they've gone there and im over here in a boring town 😂i do go to México tho theres alot of interesting things there anyways,nice vid ben.Keep it up! Btw yu should go to a trip to mexico for a vid that would be cool

love the lamp post!

I was a carpenter at Canobie Lake Park from June 98 until 17 July 03 there has been a bunch of changes since then. Interesting changes! Ron Stillens

Very cool video! Will have to check these things out next time I visit the park.

Wow great video! Some other cool facts: (I’m 37, so timeframe would have been around mid-1990s) 1) The Swimming Pool, pretty much right at the entrance, a swimming pool was located, although I never could “see” the pool because it was taller then me… I would see the splashing water/piss. 2) The ride “the galaxy” was there which is now the frisbee ride… had the classic yellow lights you’d see at a fairground food cart.

There are a few of the World"s Fair light posts still in use where I lived in Orange County NY. There were 4-6 in the Orange County Fairgrounds parking lot, and 2 in the now long defunct Lake Anne Country Club, unfortunately one got destroyed in a wind storm when a tree fell on it. Never knew there were other survivors out there.

Canobie arcade used to have crane games in big glass cube structures about 2 1/2 feet tall. The prizes were packs of cigarettes & zippo lighters. Even though I was a kid, I still wanted to try to win them. Never was allowed to play though. I know the cigs were still there in the mid 80's. I'm curious what year they finally phased them out.

If anyone who is watching this in 2022, the area around the fountain ie the path was getting fixed. As someone who currently works at canobie, the gift shops in the park were originally owned by separate people, and almost all the gift shops besides the one next to the Boston tea party are owned by the park.

Was wondering if you knew about the light poles! Some of the trash barrels were from the NY Worlds Fair as well. Not sure they are still there though.

I just went there it was soo much fun the roller coasters

I love this video and the six flags new England history video and the abandoned Franklin park zoo video in Boston.

Is that caterpillar ride with the green canvas covered top still there? ( also that is pretty cool about the pole from the '64 world's fair)

i work here. never noticed that light lol. and i got lunch right there at the trellis all the time

The new station if I’m remembering correctly was always there as a second station. Shame they shortened it fir the water park nobody even goes to. I remember the train going through the line of the corkscrew and always thinking that was so cool

#rubicscube64light wait I went on July 17th, if u went the same day...and I missed u, then UGH!!

I've been on that rocket ride. Tilted up with a movie inside. You sat in little metal seats

THIS WAS VERY INTERESTING. I MISS OLD TRAIN GOING ROUND WATER IT WAS LAST GREAT YEAR 1998 WITH MY MOM. WHATMEMORY. SHE PASSED 7 YEARS AFTER

"USA Missle" was what the rocket ship ride was called IIRC (that's what we always called it at least). Objectively terrible ride, especially the state it was in in the late 90s/early 2000s-the video they showed was nearly incomprehensible, garbled sound, washed out cheesy old visuals, and I remember it getting cut off halfway through like the ride timing was set too short/off from synching with the video. My friend and I used to love going on it just to riff on it and make fun of it. I distinctly remember one time the teenager who was working the ride just putting his head down in utter defeat and boredom while the ride was running, which we found extra hilarious. Great times.

woah i never even knew they moved the train station i remember so clearly getting on the train there.

There was a moon orbiter ride. It had red and blue cars and they orbited a moon, I think where Starblaster is now... then there was that rocket ship that raised upward as you sat and they played a dumb movie and that was where the Bear coaster is now. Paratroopers were where Skater is now. I only know rides from 1993 and onward that were replaced. Before that I think they had the scrambler, but not sure where it was...They had the Galaxy Coaster...I think that's part of the water park now. They also got rid of the Corkscrew. Glass maze is gone too! Pool is gone.

I think about that rocket ship ride from time to time (that's what brought me here). It was so bizarre cause they marketed it still as like a 'ride of the future' (I probably last went on it in like 1998) but the video was literally a 1920s silent film, like "A trip to the moon" or something very similar. What a funk old park...

I was on the train when i was little. It drove all around the park

I have never been there I'm driving down to go with the family this weekend looks fun but I'm going to have to find the 64 World Fair light post

I went to Canobie today, and now im watching youtube videos to learn more about its history and BAM #RubiksCube64Light , ill be looking out for it next time. great video

The “canobie gifts” thing Infront of the dance hall is to all the vendors that pay the owner of the park to sell merchandise ~ a coni is employee

Let’s see not included were the paratrooper ride,the hall of mirrors, the rockin roller coaster, the swimming pool, there was another spinning ride where starblaster is, I believe the viewing theatre by where the casino is was removed as well

Great video Ben - the park has really changed since last time I was there. I used to go quite a bit back in the mid 1980s as a lil guy. My brother worked there one summer too. Fun times!

Great video

You should do more canobie lake videos

Ya I don’t talk about the old glass mirror maze when I was a kid and got a bloody nose inside it lol

#rubixcube64light pretty cool! I do not think I had ever been to this looks pretty cool!

#rubicscube64light Wealways used to go to this park to meet up with relatives

I'll let the michael jackson fan/kiddie park joke write itself...but i love canobie.

I laughed when you mentioned the red face. I too hate people with red faces too so weird that someone else has that in common with me. Cool though.😂😅

I live right next to there it’s crazy to me people can’t bike there and it’s so crazy for them to go there

I think I remember that space ship when I was a kid. #rubixcube64 thanks for sharing. Pretty interesting. Going here today

Was the extreme frisbee open

If you go to the Mexican restaurant near the sky ride you can see part of the original entrance to the park from 1902

They are making a double decker carou

Anyone remember the pool that use to be near the ferris wheel

i have been living and going to this park my whole life and the only time i seen the inside of the dance hall was like 1980's when i snuck in as a preteen never knew they opened it up agian granted i havent been since they opened up untamed and even than i think they where still blding it lol

They use to have the Komsomo-Jet cars in the backwoods but they either sold them off or people went into the woods and took them. By the way, my first visit to CLP was in 1969!

Did the psychodrome ever play fire on high by ELO?

I remember the rocket. I remember being too chicken shit to go in it and ride the ride.

I remember back in 2010 they had a swimming pool inside the entrance of the park

Michael and Elvis only come once or twice a year, and there's actually a bunch of groupies in their 70's who follow the preformers around where they tour

I remember when it had a swimming pool

#rubixcube64light ! Might be a year late but still enjoyed the video!

#rubixcube64worldsfair Also I did watch when it came out The video

Was it was the train station or the baby roller coaster?