I remember some of the badboys /smart guys, missing the Sunday talk to go on the Roller Coaster at The Pike.
I remember what fun the old Bumper Cars were.
Just Lois
Anyone Here Have Fun At The Long Beach Pike In The 1950's?
by LoisLane looking for Superman 4 Replies latest jw friends
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Lois- That'd be me You remember the Circuit Assemblies held next door. Thr Roller Coaster was the fastest and scariest ride around, the all wood tresstle creaked and moaned and you thought it would come apart at any moment. There was a cylinder ride that spun around and the floor would drop out from under you and the speed of the spin would hold you to the sides of the cylinder.
They had the scariest Freak Show around, did you see the Man Of Stone, this guy whose body was calcified was perched on a bar stool but lying down and the guy explaining what had happened keep tapping him with a cane and it sounded like tapping concrete. I was probably 6 or 7 at the time and had gone with my older brother and his buddies, I had nightmares for weeks after that.
Next to the Pike was the old Spit and Argue Club, a public forum where anyone could get up for a few minutes and talk about anything. It was a favorite place for 'winos' to sleep it off on the park benches. In my teens we would go over during the Circuit Assembly breaks and pick up a bench with one of the drunks asleep on it and carry it over to the beach and set in down at the shoreline. You could tell we were getting a lot out of the religious instruction.
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Juan Viejo2
My mother was baptized in the huge public swimming pool building just up the beach a ways in 1952. The roller coaster at the Pike was even scarier than the one at Venice beach in Los Angles...
JV
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JV- Was that the old Plunge.
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gma-tired2
Only got to the Pike once but loved the roller coaster. The kids from my congregation went to Pacific Ocean Park near Santa Monica the most fun JW kids ever could have.