I’m sure this has been discussed here...but just ran across it on HBO Max. Ahhhh Jersey in the early 80s! This definitely took me back...it had legendary status in Monmouth...my parents refused to ever go here...but I remember the stories.
The final days before overreaching government regulations!
Did you get sprayed with the orange liquid they talk about in the documentary?
Easy stuff to recover from as a kid and an injury to talk to your friends about. But as an older person , to get hurt like that now.......................
Watching the tarzan swing was a good time. Some guys would pull some cool stuff, while others, as you say, don't.
In addition to it being crazy, and tons of fun, another thing that stuck out to me was how cold that water was. Great on a hot 95 degree day. Not as great on a nice 80 degree day. Much of the water areas were in the shade to boot. I might have passed on a post labor day visit.
I still get a few days a year in over there. They do have a really good park system.
Such as? What a decade! I was lucky to come of age at that time and It was the peak of rock and roll. In that one decade alone we went through many genres of Rock, Pop, Punk, New wave, Heavy Metal, reggae, Ska, and more. There was so much live music in that decade right here in NJ I cannot even remember all the venues I was at or all the bands I saw! After the 1980's the music business started to change that made it alot harder for bands to make money. I also miss action park, what a place. This was back before everyone became so litigious that now you literally cannot do anything that even has an element of risk to it.
I agree, today if you're not strapped in, harnessed down like you're on the next mission to the moon it isn't happening. Back then parents didn't look to sue. You came home with a gash or broken bone they looked at you, gave you a slap in the head and said, "what did you do now?'. Parents today, "who did this to you?, we need to make them pay and sue them".
I remember the first time on the Tarzan swing or the water tube that dropped you 15-20 feet into water. That water was so damn cold, I could barely breathe. It was shockingly cold. I did the alpine slide once and even at the irresponsible age of 10-12 when you never thought about danger, afterwards I was like.....that's doesn't seem like a good idea. Later that day, a friend got hurt on it. Nothing broken, just crazy burns/scraps.
Around the same time we used to go to a water slide in Florida near Orlando when we visited. We loved it but it was cement slides with rubber mats and even if you didn't wipe out you came back in a little bit of pain all over. You could crack your skull on that easy. Yes we've become over-cautious but some of that stuff was definitely unsafe.
Why was that? Was the water from a natural spring or something. Never made sense!
Yup water used on the Tarzan swing and Cannonball were from a natural spring which is why it was always freezing cold.
It was a tube that dropped you from 20 feet into the ice cold water, I remember my dad hurt his neck on that because the tube took a sharp turn and he tweaked it lol
Dodging hypothermia was part of the death-defying thril
