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Loved Rush.

POP Pacific Ocean Park was the competition back in the day

Must have been nice in the 40s, 50s and early 60s, before they just let it go with no up keep and demolished all the attractions over time. I was there in the early 70s and I am sure even then it was just a remnant of historical culture in neglect. Really sad and pathetic the cheesy modernized crap they turned it into that has no relation at all to the original Pike and that historical area. CA is such a sell out to rich land developers

I finally got to see the Pike right here. As kids, the Pike once crossed our minds around '71 or '72, but that idea quickly got nixed by a friend who said it was full of winos. Consequently, I never did see it although we often came down to LB to swim at Belmont Shores. Thanks!

Got stationed at Long Beach September 1972 and was there until 1974. The Pike was pretty much a dump by then, nobody went there. The Cyclone Racer must have already been torn down because I don't remember seeing it. I think the Santa Cruz Boardwalk is the only amusement park still in existence on the west coast.

We miss you, BIG TIME!!!

Mute it

Thank you! But I had to turn the sound off. INSANE.

I was there in the final year , 1978.They still had the Skooter bumper cars and the ski lift type ride ,and 25 cents photo booths in which I tried them all.

The Pike rings a bell with me. A Child in Mid 1940's

Rush was a great man. More Importantly he was a self made man, a patriot. Since 1990 I listen to Rush from my work van until his last day. Was the most important person in this generation for speaking liberty and conservative principles. I don't listen to talk radio since. RIP. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III. God recalled his loan.

When I visited family in SoCal, I'd hear radio ads for concerts at El Monte Legion Stadium. I asked my aunt if we could go there, and she said, "No, you're never going to that place! You're too young to know, but that's where all the bad people go." I musta been about 5-6 years old, but I never forgot what she told me....

Thank you. Can Do from 15inf regiment. 3rd ID

The Doctor of Democracy!

Great post but the music is torturous! 😂

MEMORIES!😍

Didn’t this guy make fun of aiyds victims passing?

Rush Limbaugh was such an Amazing Person. I looked forward to his show every day. He was an Entertainer at heart. God Bless Rush Limbaugh.

More for adults ,sailors eveywhere,gritty ,seedy...loved it in '50's,'60's...as a teeny weeny kido..

ha ha ha hilarious

The music is horrible.

I was a young sailor in the early 60's. Got assigned to a Destroyer at Long Beach Naval Station. The Pike was a hive of all that is Negative and warned by my Fellow Shipmates to stay away from it.

There is not a day go by that I don't think about Rush, then I cry.

Just ain't another Rush!🎉

I miss Rush so much!

Thanks for sharing. 💋

Thank you for posting this. I remember The Cyclone at the Long Beach Pike, in the early 50’s. We lived nearby. When I was about 3 or 4, my two older sisters took me there. That may be why I am terrified of heights!

I would have liked to have seen a replica of his golden mic affixed to his headstone. I'd also like to know where his golden Electro-voice mic is and what will become of it?

Rush came on the scene at just the right time. The nation had gone so far left since the 1950s and early 1960s that Rush's conservative voice became a shinning beacon.

3 years on and this is painful to watch. I really miss Rush Limbaugh. G0d rest his beautiful soul.

My brother and I went to El Monte high school in the 60,s he was on the football team and I had many friends from grade school to highschool my home girls ,,Yolanda Solis Taliyah Casey ,,Irene montage Marilyn ,,masey Guzman ,, David Chavez ,,, odalay ,,the memories of them all ,,we lived behind the highschool on concert st and Tyler ,,my mom owned ,,Shirl,s hamburger stand in front of our house ,,mom and my younger sister are gone ,,,thank for the memories of old El Monte 😍

Thank you for putting this wonderful video to gather for one of the greatest Americans to ever live! You’re a great American!

When I went there it wasn’t all this going on some of that had gone

They need to bring it back all these empty lots that would be very nice

Thanks Ed, this brought back a lot of memories 👍👍👍👍

Had a Jewish girl, Steph I think, went down there to ride that ancient wooden roller coaster. She jumped on the first car; I steeled myself as we pulled to the top. Tried to be brave but that first drop I knew we were about to die...

I remember my friend and I going in that place back in the 70s two black girls had a great time

More tattoos were given to drunk Sailors in a week than any modern Hipster Tattoo place in Hollywood does in a month, or two.Of course 80% ofbthe old Sailor tattoos said a ship's name or MOM.

I was there in '72

The roller coaster shut down the year I started working in LB, circa 1968. The Navy was a mainstay in LB, from the early 40's until the mid 90's. When they shut everything and left.

In 1967, the final episode of THE FUGITIVE tv show had its climatic scene filmed at the PIKE, where Richard Kimble finally catches up with and fights the infamous One-Armed Man!@

Tattoo shops on almost every corner, guys at stands betting they can guess your age, and the smell of popcorn, cotton candy, saltwater taffy, and the ocean, all mixed together. And sailors, sailors, and more sailors! For you folks that weren’t here back in those days, you have no idea what you missed! Long Beach has lost a real gem.

Sometimes riders of the Racer were thrown out and died.

My dad was born in 35. Born and raised in LA, told me he has seen Navy guys bail out of the coaster at the end of the pier and dive into the sea. It’s a great story but can anyone confirm this. My dad had a ton of stories and most of them true or un confirmed. Anyone, Buehler?

I always kinda thought they made the pike so sailors had something to do on liberty, and I guess they kinda did but us kids loved it to, you didn't have to wait for the carnival to get around to your town. Miss it , I guess, the childhood. ✌️. Thx.

When it was built the Cyclone was the biggest coaster in the world and the only double track roller coaster to boot. In the 1950s I was 4 or 5 taken on one of those "Dark" rides with scary stuff popping up and swinging down at me. Scared me so bad I wouldn't go on anything else, I was terrorized. Not the kind of ride you take a little kid on, would of been less scary if they had taken me on the Cyclone which I wanted to go on. They said it was too scary.

Come on man! SMFH

Thank you posting this! I was born in Monterey Park but grew up in Arizona from age 6 weeks. My Grandparents lived in El Monte from the late 30's and I spent most summers there in the 40's and 50's. I remember it well as it was always a special, magical place for me. The first house of my grandparents that I remember (Their second house - the first was wiped out by the freeway) was on Nevada Street near the Red Car Depot. Their final house was on Montecito Dr. and was sold in 1958 when my Grandmother moved to Arizona after the death of my Grandfather. I remember going to the swimming pool in Baldwin Park (where I learned to swim), Shopping at 5 Points, The movie Theater and many of the stores including the Thrifty Drug pictured here and The Miss and Matron Dress shop where my Grandmother worked. Valdez Restaurant was out favorite. I used to hike along the river when it was still a river before it became completely developed. The last time I was in El Monte was in the 70's and it had already changed significantly.

My mom and I were both born and raised in El Monte. She was born in 42 and I was born in 61. My grandparents lived on pine Ave. Love this video

What radio show or podcast was this interview from? God bless Rush and Kathryn .