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@maxtsu1 11 күн бұрын
I did the US J1 visa summer '88. And went from Ireland to Wildwood, and worked the summer in Hunts Pier. I mainly ran the Wacky Shack near end of season.
@user-qv3wb2gy1f 12 күн бұрын
I've visited Wildwoods on So. N.J. coast on 3 occasions:September, 1978-late-June, 1983-Summer, 1998
@ElleCee62978 15 күн бұрын
So is he yours? I see the Keystone Kops girls as well.
@funchase 14 күн бұрын
Yes
@ElleCee62978 14 күн бұрын
@@funchase awesome!! I was so afraid of him as a child.
@funchase 11 күн бұрын
He is borderline creepy.
@ElleCee62978 11 күн бұрын
@@funchase I think it’s the eyes. Thank you for saving Hunt’s Pier history. I always wanted the Kop who had the top hat and XX eyes.
@funchase 11 күн бұрын
Stay tuned…
@MikesTrainsandTravels 22 күн бұрын
Was this on the kids car ride under the Flyer? I remember riding the cars and I think this was there
@funchase 19 күн бұрын
Yes, he was.
@cliffordbodine5834 22 күн бұрын
Right there in the middle of the Flyer and Mini Hot Rods. My first job at 17 years old was raising and lowering the railroad gate to the crossing which led to the Mini Hot Rods. Thanks for posting Ralph!
@funchase 19 күн бұрын
That’s great!
@DelbertSting-th7if 23 күн бұрын
I remember the summer of 88 like it was yesterday. I was 15. My family borrowed a friend’s conversion van and my mom, dad great aunt, me, my younger sister, newborn sister, my sister’s friend carrie,and my best friend Bucky all went to wildwood for a vacation in late July. My parents and great aunt stayed at the bal harbor with the baby and us kids got to stay at the conca d’or just steps from the beach. Appetite of destruction and hysteria were topping the billboard and the country was thriving. What I wouldn’t give to be right back there.
@funchase 19 күн бұрын
Priceless memories.
@DelbertSting-th7if 23 күн бұрын
Remember the view at night from the top of the golden nugget? The lights, the people, and the smell of the ocean. I’m right back there now.
@funchase 19 күн бұрын
It was an intoxicating blend.
@florida1795 17 күн бұрын
It was the best ❤
@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved 25 күн бұрын
This is truly incredible that you have this
@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved Ай бұрын
Wow!!!
@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved Ай бұрын
Very happy to see this! Its always great seeing rare Keystone Kops material! I wish there was footage of the interior, but this is the closest to getting that! On a side note, I have been working on a project named Kooky Trails and we have a character (named Sugar Kane) themed to the Keystone Kops dark ride! The thing with our project is that we like to make our characters loosely or fully themed to the many dark rides throughout history. Keystone Kops being one of them...
@ElleCee62978 Ай бұрын
My biggest regret is not getting my dad to video tape Skua. I have the other Huns’s Pier rides, but they will never be seen by anyone because I was a 6 year old brat in them.
@AbandonedMines11 Ай бұрын
I remember the original Haunted House that was on one of the piers back in the late 1970s. I can’t remember which pier it was on, but it was a walk-through attraction that had live actors. It was a two-story house near the end of the pier. I remember one of the rooms was a bedroom scene with a corpse in a lavish bed that was covered with hundreds of rats. Most of the rats were fake, obviously, but they added several live ones to give it some authenticity. Doesn’t seem to be a lot of information online about this particular Haunted House.
@funchase Ай бұрын
That was the Haunted House on Morey’s Pier. You can read about it on my website at the following links. www.funchase.com/Images/Freddie%20Mahana/Fred%20MahanaPg2.htm#HOUSE www.funchase.com/Images/Moreys/Moreys.htm#Eichhorn
@funchase Ай бұрын
It was the best!
@DarkinthePark Ай бұрын
Goodbye cruel world...
@JP5466 Ай бұрын
Back in 1972 my dad found a baby turtle very close to that area and brought back to our apartment on 8th Ave across from Henfey Park. I have no idea why he took it off the beach! He put it in a large bowl of water on the kitchen table. The thing was dead by the next morning. I cried very hard because I felt so sorry for it.
@ElleCee62978 Ай бұрын
I remember him! This was 6 year old me’s favorite ride.
@ElleCee62978 Ай бұрын
Amazing! Is he in your collection? When I think about how they trashed Hunt’s Pier, I get so angry.
@ElleCee62978 Ай бұрын
I couldn’t bring myself to watch this. I was down there when Jungle Land went in the 80s, and I have a little piece of it. The Golden Nugget was iconic. It’s so strange not seeing it still
@HistoricalAmusements 2 ай бұрын
Really neat you saved this piece, do you know what some of the other stunts in the Skua were?
@funchase Ай бұрын
Skua had many stunts. The following link will take you to my website where you can view more. www.funchase.com/Images/Skua/Skua.htm
@spikeg.jr.4893 2 ай бұрын
love these videos!
@davidhibbs6989 2 ай бұрын
OMG I remember him from many years past! What ever happened to the big statue that used to sit on the back of the roller coaster facing the beach?
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
You mean the Lumberjack?
@davidhibbs6989 2 ай бұрын
@@funchase yes the one with a Beard and bare feet.
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
I did a little follow up on him a few years ago that you can check out here - www.funchase.com/Images/Lumberjack/Lumberjack%20Is%20Back.htm. I have to update it because he was recently sold. There is a video I made on that page as well that you might enjoy.
@davidhibbs6989 2 ай бұрын
@@funchase wow! Loved the video on him. Glad he's still around! Strange how I always thought he had bare feet. Like seeing how I remember him I guess as a kid back in the 60's and 70's thank you!
@JP5466 2 ай бұрын
Cool. I'm surprised the age and salt air didn't do more damage to it. Did you repair or repaint it?
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
No, I haven’t done any work on it.
@cliffordbodine5834 2 ай бұрын
Nice work, Ralph!
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
Thanks - I’m glad you liked it.
@dananderson3077 2 ай бұрын
All I can add is wow....jealous...
@chriscinque3458 2 ай бұрын
How many children nightmares is this thing responsible for?
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
Still creepy after all these years 😃
@BABYPOP028 2 ай бұрын
Any video walkthrough vids out there of the operating Skua?
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
The only interior video I’ve seen is a 10 second clip of this exact pirate scene that was sent to me by Gina Minichino. You can view it here - m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqyEe5iUl5_QnX0.html
@sonnyrichards2121 2 ай бұрын
Awesome, thanks for sharing Ralph!
@funchase 2 ай бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
@dianebuckler1649 2 ай бұрын
That's so cool! Loved that ride
@lancewoods9428 2 ай бұрын
I remember these black light Kops vividly. Looks like the original mechanism still works. Wow!
@DirtyMovies76 2 ай бұрын
Coming soon to a pier near you!
@davidhibbs6989 2 ай бұрын
Wow glad it was saved! I remember a some type of siren sound they had at hunts back in the 70's and 80's went off like 3 times in a row about every minute, anyone remember what it was?
@JP5466 2 ай бұрын
I made him out of Playdough when I was a kid. Looked exactly like him. My brother got jealous and smashed it.
@dananderson3077 2 ай бұрын
very cool and very jealous!!!!!
@Mrpalenkova 3 ай бұрын
How tall were these figures?
@funchase 3 ай бұрын
52 inches.
@Mrpalenkova 3 ай бұрын
@@funchase Thank you so much for replying! and width?
@garbo8962 3 ай бұрын
While smart next store neighbor Cape May has maintained most of the late Victorian, Queen Anne, Colonial style of over 600 buildings Wildwood does next to nothing to maintain thief famous Doo Wop buildings.
@davidhibbs6989 3 ай бұрын
It's sad seeing your past fun times being Destroyed before your eyes 👀 reminds me the same when they dismantled all of the rides on hunts Pier. Golden mine ride and such. Glad the golden nugget mine ride is still alive in old video's and my mind 🕶️
@davidhibbs6989 3 ай бұрын
I'm amazed that after all of these years they still work ❤
@JP5466 3 ай бұрын
Will the hotel remain? I cannot stand what happen to WW over the past 20 years.
@funchase 3 ай бұрын
The building remains but the motel units have been converted to condos.
@JP5466 3 ай бұрын
@@funchase I knew it. Very typical. Greedy pigs came in and took over WW.
@piggsinablankie 3 ай бұрын
Same here. Past 20-30 years seems like most everything has changed. Hotels/motels are apparently unprofitable now, and they are all being converted to condos, or torn down completely for townhouses or more condos. Very few things left that I recall as a kid.
@ScaryStoriesNYC 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for documenting this.
@funchase 3 ай бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
@samrusso1945 3 ай бұрын
Still sexy after all these years.
@GiantSquid2319 4 ай бұрын
How did you get the animatronics?
@funchase 3 ай бұрын
A few years after they were removed from the pier I purchased them from the Catanoso family.
@GiantSquid2319 3 ай бұрын
You still got other animatronics from there?
@garbo8962 4 ай бұрын
This was the only ride that my mom took me on after turning 4 or 5. We always went on rides at night making this ride even scarier. Years later enjoyed taking my kids on it. Back the late 1950 & 60' s Hunt's pier had the best rides in Wildwood.
@robkrasinski6217 4 ай бұрын
To think, Obummer was the new prez when all this was going on in Feb 2009. And our current prez was vice prez. The last time it operated was when Willy from Little Rock was prez in 1998. There's a whole generation who never got to ride this in Wildwood. They can now at Knoebel's but it's a new ride with new scenes. Knoebel's doesn't have the same vibe as Wildwood it's just an old amusement park in the woods in the middle of nowhere.
@robkrasinski6217 4 ай бұрын
I built a replica of this ride in Planet Coaster as well as in RCT3 and RCT2. They are computer games where you build amusement parks.
@funchase 4 ай бұрын
Sounds cool.
@robkrasinski6217 4 ай бұрын
I don't know which is worse, seeing this or Castle Dracula on fire on Jan 16, 2002. At least Knoebel's built a new version with the old track.
@funchase 4 ай бұрын
Both were heartbreaking.
@robkrasinski6217 4 ай бұрын
You have a one of a kind piece of history. Do you still sell the figures and stuff that you handmake of Hunt's Pier stuff? i know Scott Hand would probably love to have this. He was a big Hunt's Pier fan as a kid in the 70's and early 80's. He has an ego problem though and blocked me from his private invite only Wildwoods facebook group as well as his personal page. Anthony Canzano did the same thing, block me from a similar boardwalk amusements facebook group when I tried to join and his personal page. I had tons of IM convos with those two about old amusements, etc. I visited Hunt's Pier in Aug 1982 and Aug 1983 and went through the Pirate Ship Skua.
@funchase 4 ай бұрын
Yes Rob, I was thrilled when Vince gave me that piece - it’s a real treasure. Currently I don’t have any of my work for sale.
@lemerdeposteur 4 ай бұрын
That 3 screams and a roar recording is burnt into my memory
@JP5466 5 ай бұрын
Went in here many times when I was a kid. The audio is pretty close to what I remember too. Most of your videos are kinda creepy... done intentionally no doubt.
@AbandonedMines11 5 ай бұрын
That looks great! I remember going through the Skua pirate ship in the late 1970s when, I believe, the skull at the entrance was white. Do you have a replica of the Whacky Shack facade by any chance?
@funchase 5 ай бұрын
The white skull and hand were originally used for both entrance and exit but because of the congestion, in 1983 they created a new entrance by adding the pirate face to the facade and the skull continued to be used as an exit only. I do have the original large model of the Whacky Shack facade that was hand built by Bill Tracy (Amusement Display Associates) in 1963. It was displayed in the lobby of the Strand Theatre in Wildwood to promote the new attraction in 1964.
@AbandonedMines11 5 ай бұрын
@@funchase Thanks for the clarification and info. Would love to see that Whacky Shack façade. That was my favorite ride as a kid when we would go there every summer in June. Always had to ride that almost as if it was a ritual. It’s what got me Interested in dark rides. I remember also going through the haunted house that was on one of the other piers where they had actual live actors inside the house and stuff like that. I remember finding a picture of that online a few years ago, but I don’t think there was ever a lot of preservation of that particular haunted house. I don’t think it was around for too many years. it was pretty good, though! I remember there was one scene inside showing a bedroom with a huge bed that was covered with rats. I remember some of the rats were alive and scampering all over the place. I remember they also had this psychedelic hallway or room that was painted in a black-and-white chessboard pattern. They had a strobe light in there that was flashing like crazy. Good times!
@funchase 5 ай бұрын
Yes, so many great memories of those classic attractions. Here are a few links to pages on my website that may interest you. www.funchase.com/Images/Freddie%20Mahana/Fred%20MahanaPg2.htm#HOUSE www.funchase.com/Images/Moreys/Moreys.htm www.funchase.com/Images/Abandoned/Abandoned4.htm www.funchase.com/Funchase.htm
@lancewoods9428 3 ай бұрын
Awesome find! And your recreation of the shanty is spot on!
@dorothykulisek4566 5 ай бұрын
I have the best memories there ❤
@dananderson3077 5 ай бұрын
WOW....great episode.....WOW again...love it!
@funchase 5 ай бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.