Whalom Park - Vintage 90s footage - Lunenburg, MA - Flyer Comet, Carousel, Paratrooper and more!
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2024
- Whalom Park was one of the oldest amusement parks in the United States. My family would get season passes (incredibly cheap!) and go right from school - a next-door-neighbor 3-minute drive. My dad would meet us from work and we'd relax in the park for the rest of the evening. We have fond memories of this park and am happy to share the footage with other people who loved it as well.
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i love watching videos of old school parks! I always wonder though if todays kids would appreciate these tiny parks in world now full of mega amusement parks with 16 roller coasters ,indoor waterparks,cheaper airfare to travel farther, and all this at-home entertainment we have now..(smartphones,video games,streaming,tablets,etc.)
idk why i looked this park up, im tearing up xD such a huge part of my childhood just gone for condos. Not even just mine. My mother's childhood, my grandmother's childhood, hell even my great grandmother was young enough when it opened to enjoy it.
Some of the best times of my life for strength of this park. I work there between 96 and 97 I mean a ton of friends. Nothing will come close to the life experience this park gave me.
96 was the last time I went ❤❤I was 16
flyer comet was my first roller coaster! the go karts and all the vintage even then rides. sure you could have filmed a few scooby doo mysteries there, it was run down a bit but whalom and canobie were and are my home parks
I'd spend the entire day in the funhouse. I witnessed one of the tilt-a-whirl cars coming off the track with kids in it near the end.
Best job I ever had
Oh man, I used to love the scrambler and the tilt o whirl, the scrambler was my favorite, i remember the tilt o whirl always gave me a funny feeling in my stomach, never threw up though, lol
Oh what great memories I had going to whalom park.:. It breaks my heart to see it gone. I mean the place has been around since the 1800s… truly a major loss
oh the memories! I worked there the last 3 years it was open. I miss it!
I went there every summer with my Sunday school had fun every time/springfield mass ❤❤❤🎉🎉wish it was still here
The arcade you shown next to the coaster was not the candlepin bowling alley, but the old-time one across the midway with the bright lights (if it was still a thing then) was where it was. I remember the older arcade, and the weird patch job on the floor, and the overly bright lights. It was in one of the mill buildings that made the timer for the Comer coaster.
Things changed quite some since the mid 80s when I last was here. Skee-Ball is on the midway. When I used to come here, it was in a 6-car garage on the road where the lake boat ride was, on-property.
This place wasn't the same since the Pirate's Den burned down in 81.
I spent many summers here, as a kid in the 80s. This place, Riverside (6 Flaggs, now), and Rocky Point. Damn. Those were the days
I grew up going to whalom park, so many great memories of my time spent there, I feel so sad for the generations of people who didn’t have a chance to go there, so sad that they closed it down 😢
Right. I wish I could bring my kids… plus it was like 10$ it was small but I think it meant so much to people throughout the generations… it’s sad to see
i worked there in the late 80s i loved it
Had season passes from 91 to 97
Went like 60 times in 91 is amazing when you consider their only open 6 days a week for like 10 weeks 😂
I remember I almost died on the spider ride, it goes up in the air and the carriages spin around really fast, the bar that holds you in, isn't very secure and locked, not sure if it was suppose to be like that or mine wasn't locked, I literally had to hold on for my life or I would have flew out of that, scared the crap out of me!
This is the closest I'll ever get to experiencing this Whale of a Park
Well… you would have had a “whale of a time”…. I went all my childhood so it’s heartbreaking to know that they turned this place into condominiums.. but they were great times
I remember going in the fun house a few times as a kid, but I can't remember everything about it, all I remember is the flashing lights and the rolling barrel at the end, also I think the floor drops or you walk up some stairs or something, was over 30 years ago, mid to late 80s, anyone know exactly everything that happens? This video is kind of dark, so I can't really see much.
Looks kinda cold for them to be open with the lights on lol usually only open till 5 in April or after labor day
in the later years, the scrambler ran backwards,,, were the gears worn? fix it,,,,, can't do that, it's gone.
It's hard describing to people what we used to have when I was young. There's nothing to do anymore. Shame on our parents generation for letting places like this close.