Pleasure Island
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- United States
Coordinates
Coordinates: 42°31′12.71″N 71°2′43.05″W
Opened
1959
Closed
1969
Rides
Total
48
Pleasure Island was an amusement park located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The park, billed as the "Disneyland of the Northeast",was in business from 1959 to 1969. During its short existence it went through several owners and was financially handicapped by New England's relatively short summers.[1]
Today, the land formerly occupied by the park is now Edgewater Office Park.
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I know the actual story of the whale, in fact I was there I used to work there is a maintenance guy in my early 20s. One day me and a few other workers were raising the whale out of the water for one last show before the season ended, we were scheduled to do maintenance. The maintenance was specifically a hydraulic rebuild because the whale mechanism was failing and that’s what killed the whale. So we went to go raise the whale, and during that process the whale came out of the water as normal swung up and was perfectly level and was working as it should, after a minute though the whale started shaking violently. The whale came out of the water using a winch that’s how it worked for the show but it had to hydraulic cylinders that raised the tail and the front end for a more realistic look. One of those hydraulic cylinders blew up causing the whale frame to crack into multiple pieces, the whale ended up falling off the track into the bottom of the water. I know a few friends who do scuba, The whale is still down there but it’s fiberglass, aluminum skin is so rotted and worn off it’s just a hollow rusty steel frame. That’s why I no one’s able to really see it. Cool that you’re looking for though I saw it last year you could still see the cylinder down there on the pond floor.
that blew up.
kind of a crazy story, but that’s what happened. Explosion wasn’t very loud. It was underwater so it was more just bubbles. The Hydraulic system pumped the pond water into the pistons and that’s how it worked. I’m not exactly sure but some of those pipes could be what’s left of those hydraulic lines pumping water into those pistons. I know there was an electric pump that constantly cycled the water in the pond and it was like a filter. This was put into the water so it wasn’t so murky I’m pretty sure it’s still there I’m not sure if it’s working but it’s just constantly cycling the pond water.
Are the porpoises in the pond as well?
Do you pictures of the whale down in the lagoon because I’m very interested of finding pictures of the Moby Dick animatronic
Well, your lying
@@EpicSonicBrosOfficial Then explain why the whale is in one piece, buddy
That would be so disturbing. Just imagine you go there one morning about to turn it on to get it out of the water, but someone literally did something wrong. So it results the whale just going under the water really fast, only to hear a loud thump at the bottom seconds later. I can’t even imagine how scary that would be in person to see.
Genuinely here because I love large animatronics if anyone has any information on it please tell me
Same.
Pasdor 993 it actually sunk- it just randomly cracked and stuff and sunk one day
@@aname5418 from a tiktok?
A Name They we’re trying to take the whale out after the park closed, but as they were pulling he broke into 4 pieces, now at the bottom of the lake
I so badly want to know what he looks like now under the water
Your not catching me on that ride 3:00
bruh it looks so scary
That ride is long gone haha!
LMFAO SAME
Apparently the animatronic broke down and sunk to the bottom of the lake, it's still there 😖
Vanilla Pumpakin rah if that thing sunk could you imagine diving under and finding it 🤢
Use to sneak in by walking through the closeby woods and scaling the fence. I am sure I am in the audience watching Clarabel. But I also saw the other acts like the Three Stooges and Ricky Nelson.
What a move, that's dedication.
I love old commercials and lost treasures like this🥺 it makes me sad but interested ngl
Oh, what memories! I won a day trip there when I was a paperboy for the Greenfield Recorder Gazette back in 1965. Really had a blast that day. I loved the Wreck of the Hesperus ride the best.
daybird2 that’s so sweet
2:52 Apparently after the park closed, the whale broke in four pieces and is at the bottom of the park, 8 feet down, broken.
and I stole that from TikTok like a boss
I heard the painted whale was auctioned...so it may not be there anymore just some wood skeleton...
@@sarahgoodrich6631 Probably just the ship, and not the whake.
Grew up right down the street from here! Was there many many times as a kid! Some of my greatest childhood memories, Thanks for the memories :)
Me, too!
Small world, aint it. and the Internet has made it even smaller ;)
ClassicRockDJdotcom I find it kind of amusing I live all the way in Canada; never been here. But I still find this park really interesting. I've been tracking the Moby animatronic, and I am pretty sure its still there, but now beached on shore!
I worked there in ‘64 ‘65 and ‘66. Great to see it again.
What was moby Dick like
did you see the Lone ranger there?
@@gerrydooley951 yes, I did.
@@mcnamarajohn1 fantastic, any photos?
@@gerrydooley951 no. I also met Caesar Romero ( the joker in Batman) ; little Joe Cartwright, Frank Gorshin ( the Riddler in Batman) and Fess Parker ( Davy Crockett on TV in those days).
That whale is freakin' scary
Going to Pleasure Island was always a highlight. Loved the horseless carriages and the ice cream!
Not exactly what I was looking for but I'll take it
Wow... like stepping back in time. Not sure if we had more fun there as kids or as teenagers after it burned down. "Party at PI" was a commonly shared phrase in high school - before social media or cell phones - when the weekend plans were spread around school, lol
Awesome memories...
but, feeling soooo old seeing this!
My first job was on the clean up crew at Pleasure Island. It was really a fun place to work. Most of the employees were high school students.
I loved going there when I was a young kid. Lived and from Wakefield, Ma
This was wonderful to watch. The park was long gone when I was growing up. I often wondered what it must have looked like when I would pass the exit sign for Pleasure Island Road on 128. I love the "Davy and Goliath/Gumby" sounding background music in this film. When they were talking about Western City, I was thinking maybe Rex Trailer and Cactus Pete would make an appearance. :-)
Who here because tik tok?
meee omg
Yo how TF did u kno
Ergy Listian ME
Meee
The mody dick thing?
Watching this from the office park that now stands on the Pleasure Island site. You can still see some of the amusements when the water is low
Cool memories! Went there a few times.
Only trace of the old park is an exit off RTE 128 that goes onto Pleasure Island Road.
@TechMasterJason Got to visit the park 3 times as a kid. There used to be a site online with pics of the park after it'd closed and been vandalized. Sad to see how it had fallen.
I remember thinking the place was so cheezy even though I was only a kid.
I remember moby dick as being white painted oil drums.That barely rose out of the water.Green murky water and endless floating cigarette butts.
I miss this place went there every year through the 60s then it was gone ruins turned to industrial park and now big office park buildings only thing left is this video on you tube even Walt Disney visited when first opened 1959 but winter was unpredictable in Wakefield mass and 10 years later closed
Wish I had a place like this where I live.
I'm not going there I might turn into a donkey LOL
Imagine swimming around in that water, no clue of the whale.. you sit still for a moment only to dive underwater and face the massive whale for it to then begin to move and lift you out of the water, fuck that
I have no doubt I would have loved this place. Unfortunately, it closed 10 years before I was born.
I have submechanophobia so the whales are horrifying.
(fear of submerged animatronics/props.)
who thought this was a good idea 💀
What is wrong with it?
Obviously you never went to this fantastic place.
I loved it a guy I knew skindived down and met the whale face to face and some wrecked boats back in 1980 before they developed that area and filled in all in back in the 90s
@@sheddski2942 that's traumatizing
Hard believe i was little boy my brother in law took me i was so scared at christmas time i had no idea how expensivie it was. I cryed and cryed i remember nice looken waiter gave me free piece pizza to quite me. Ill never forget it. Not realizen i ruined good time. I was 4 and harf or five
Fond memories!
remember when my parents to my sister and I to pleasure island when we were little , I remember when moby dick came out of water, the Disney land of Massachusetts
2:48 what type of dolphin is that?
Those are Orcas i think.
Did we get to ride donkeys through a body of water? I vaguely remember something like that. Am I wrong?
We rode beside a small pond.
@@talessi9 Why am I remembering going 'Through' a body of water atop an animal of some sort? Anyways, thanks!
@@allkindsamusicchick Maybe the Moby Dick ride?
Legend has it Moby Dick is still down there.
That's because he is still down there.
This is Audubon Road now?
Yes!
are the remains of the park still there in 2024?
God. All of these TikTokers here. I really hope they don’t migrate over to UA-cam when it’s banned. Their emoji talking hurts me.
And they filled acres of unusable marsh land with concrete to make a parking lot that holds 3000 cars!
Pretty sure they built an Industrial Park there, lots of jobs
They make meth right behind were the park used to sit.
Dont we all just love Tik Tok?
No
No cause a bunch of pedos go on there
No
No
I buy that app
I remember when the Thee Stooges came there.
The blow hole is on the wrong side y’know
Good thing no one turns into donkeys at this place.
Who is here for the tiktok for the exposed of Pinocchio
Turned "unusable marshland" into a parking lot they say. I wonder how the wildlife is liking the parking lot now? What a waste.
@TechMasterJason I have a feeling that the something was up there. The whale animatronic was about to be taken out when the park shut down and it suddenly cracked broke into four pieces and sunk to the bottom of the water.
@TechMasterJason Don't know, maybe. It could be even deeper in the water if so. I hope by now its decayed or nowhere to be seen.
Edit: Turns out after some research that it may still be there, a guy was at the park when a guy in a scuba suit come out of the water. The guy said he came face to face with a giant eye, so part of the whale may still be there.
They should no better . The coachman is going to turn them all into donkeys
1:20 isn't that kind of... racist?
TigerLily not back then
TigerLily , always somebody with that crutch word racist. Who gives a shit.
yeah
The kids in the crowd were having a total blast !! I don’t think they were thinking about “racism “ at that point. They just wanted there Pepsi and cotton candy.
I feel sorry for you.🤣