1974: My Favorite Time of Rocky Point
Photos sent in by Mark Thompson who worked in the games from 1971 to 1975

Rocky Point Park...in the quiet moment just before opening

Taken from the Skyliner...

Working one of the wheels...

The Flume ride splashes down!

From the Skyliner, looking over the New Dodgems and the Flume out to Narragansett Bay

View from the top of the Flume!

Looking out over the midway... from the top of the Flume, I think...

The Break-a-Plate joint... noisy and dusty!

The glass toss, in front of the Penny Arcade...that's the Windjammer, in the background

The Penny Arcade

The Rocky Point train, at the edge of Kiddyland

The "new" midway, which opened in 1971, I think

The Milk Jug game..toss a softball into the jug and win a prize! That's the Octopus to the left, and the Rok-n-Rol behind the stand

Looking down the new midway, toward the Flume

Relaxing on the midway

The Castle of Terror, sometimes known as the House of Horrors....

Coming back down on the Skyliner over the midway

Mini-Basketball game...

Happy times on the original midway...

Happy people on the midway...that's the Redemption Center, straight ahead beyond the tree.

Time for ice cream on the midway!

Not sure what game this is...it could be Water Balloons, but I'm not sure...

Musik Express

On the Skyliner, over the new midway...

The Skydiver

The Zyclone...we used to ride this with pails of water and time its dumping so it would hit someone riding below...

Captain Rocky's boat...

The Rocky Point Ferris wheel...

One of the big wheels, down near the Castle of Terror

Behind some of the midway games...

 

Rocky Point

05/20/2009