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Post by Robert on Apr 10, 2006 14:57:41 GMT -5
With places like Sam's and the Lobster House rebuilding after their fires, why not the Castle? How can Sam's rebuild almost immediately, but Nickels fart around and wait 10 years before rebuilding anything? If the Nickels were smart, they would have rebuilt the castle by 2003.
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Post by CondorAlex on Apr 10, 2006 15:20:42 GMT -5
Compare the prices it would cost to build both Robert, then you'll know.
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Post by wildwanderer on Apr 10, 2006 15:41:34 GMT -5
With places like Sam's and the Lobster House rebuilding after their fires, why not the Castle? How can Sam's rebuild almost immediately, but Nickels fart around and wait 10 years before rebuilding anything? If the Nickels were smart, they would have rebuilt the castle by 2003. Robert, I can tell you REALLY miss the castle.
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Post by ContessaAnisha on Apr 10, 2006 15:55:18 GMT -5
Castle Dracula will not be rebuilt. I have it on very good authority that it is just too costly what with the insurance, the fire code regulations, and the disable citizen's act. So people...the Castle will only live as a memory.
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Post by DooWopStuff on Apr 10, 2006 16:00:34 GMT -5
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Post by ContessaAnisha on Apr 10, 2006 16:07:40 GMT -5
Alread have one...and a jacket...and a piece of one of the towers..and an assortmernt of other stuff... ..but thanks!
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Apr 10, 2006 17:00:58 GMT -5
Only disney can afford to build a castle! I dont think they were making as much money on the castle in the later years then when it was new? They just kept the insurance money and scraped the idea of ever having a castle again, And all that myan temple bull crap ( blue prints were drawn up) was just a dream and they are never going to spend the money and take a chance that it would not be financially succesful!
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Post by ContessaAnisha on Apr 10, 2006 17:08:16 GMT -5
Probably cause it wouldn't be financially successful. There is talk of costing at least $15 million just to get a building that could accomadate the ADA and fire codes...add all the new-fangle things the public would want to see and you are looking at way more money than the Nickels are willing to put out. Just not cost-effective.
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Post by thelastresort on Apr 10, 2006 17:45:41 GMT -5
The current rides on the boardwalk are bullsh-t, just like any other amusement park. sure, they go "faster" and "higher", etc. but honestly, what was wrong with the old Wacky Shack, Skua pirate ship, Gold Nugget, Safari Adventure, Keystone Kops, etc. Naturally, as adults, they are "fakey", but to a 7 year old, they are great!!! I think our kids could have enjoyed them just the same, especially since there was nothing else like in in the mid-altantic. Places like Great Adventure always had the big-time rides, but nobody had the cool rides like WW. It's a fargin' shame......
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Apr 10, 2006 19:43:51 GMT -5
Dont forget about all the great custom rides that freddy mahana built with the morey boys and other boardwalk greats. In Concert, Planet of the apes, The haunted house, Spirit of 76, Theater of blood, The lost world, King kong, etc etc etc........ There isnt any great rides like that anymore. Like you said wildwood had The coolest rides now its just blah blah blah..........
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Apr 10, 2006 19:48:11 GMT -5
With places like Sam's and the Lobster House rebuilding after their fires, why not the Castle? How can Sam's rebuild almost immediately, but Nickels fart around and wait 10 years before rebuilding anything? If the Nickels were smart, they would have rebuilt the castle by 2003. I dont think the nickels are going to be big players on the boards anymore. I believe they are all pretty old?
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Post by Robert on Apr 10, 2006 23:27:01 GMT -5
That looks like the same brochure the Dark in the Park guys have on their site. It's from 1978, the year my brother was born. Anyway, it seems that small family run parks are struggling, there have been several park closings in the past few years, and especially seaside parks, the land values are just too high to stay in business. A seaside park in western Florida (Panama City Beach) closed forever in late 2004 after being in business since about 1964. It had unique themed rides, including a Bill Tracy-built Haunted Castle dark ride. Now, the Haunted Castle was disassembled and some guys in Alabama have the track and cars and some of the props to use in a temp. Halloween dark ride somewhere, and I believe the castle building itself was demolished. I believe none other than CONDOS will occupy the site of the former amusement park. At least the 1964 PTC wooden coaster was saved and will reopen at Cypress Gardens. The old dark rides are fading fast. In 2004 we lost FOUR classic pretzel-type rides, one at Bushkill Park near me, roof caved in in 2003 from big snows, and remains of building washed away in Sept. 2004 from Hurricane Ivan, At least the park still has the track and cars, and might rebuild a new one someday they said recently. It was a cool little dark ride, kind of like Dorney's old dark ride that burned in Sept. 1983. I must have ridden it 20 times the year before it was destroyed by Mother Nature. (the heavy snow) The other three were the Haunted Castle at Panama City, FL, a pretzel ride in Arkansas, and one called Castle Frankenstein (formerly Pirate's Den) at a small beach park in Massachussetts north of Boston. All of those are gone now. Laff in the dark website says when a dark ride has been torn down or otherwise lost on the respective dark ride's page. Most parks today emphasize big thrills, such as "faster, taller", etc, and the older themed/dark rides get lost in the dust except at Disney parks. Most kids today get hooked on the big coasters, and rides like Jungleland would bore them. I think those kids should be shot for forever destroying a unique piece of the boardwalk's history with the old mill and the Castle.
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Post by FlyinGN on Apr 11, 2006 8:45:36 GMT -5
so true... Those old classic rides would be so cool today...
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Post by wildwoodlifer on Apr 11, 2006 10:46:47 GMT -5
I loved the old rides. I remember all of the above, and one, called "the Poseidon Adventure" that was there for a few years beginning in like 1973 right after the movie. you'd come out wet, I recall one guy in front of me was so big he couldn't fit through the corredors, and then his foot went through the boards and he got a shoe full of water, man was he mad, me and my friends (we were like 11 at the time) were laughing our a$$es off ...
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Post by writhinganacondo on Apr 11, 2006 21:07:15 GMT -5
Robert: Isn't there an old dark ride still operating in Rehoboth Beach? I think we should all go there if you return to Wildwood. There is also a guy in Wildwood (Woolworth Building)who owns some of the old pretzel rides, part of his huge amusement collection. All is not lost.
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