| John C. |
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We used to go there in the 70's and it was the best place ever! In the arcade there was this old-timey "game" where you grab hold to these metal handles and it sends an electric current through, and you have to see how long you can hold on--Great idea for kids soaking wet with their bare, pine-needly feet dripping on the bare wood floor as they get zapped by this 50 year old machine. Then you run back to your mother's blanket and eat some warm tunafish sandwiches and sandy potato chips. I was always too afraid to try that wheel thing out in the water. It loked like a killer. From what I understand the actual reason for the public beach closing was due to invasive weeds choking the water. Drove by a few years ago, looked small and shabby. Good memories, though.
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| cheryl nbautista |
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hi my name is cheryl and I have a lot of pitures of my family at wildwoods, my brother in law of 20 years had mentioned your request for pictures
and we had a great conversation of all our memories all in the late 70's
until the mid eighties. i will locate pix and send you.. thanks for the memories...
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| Kim |
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My family use to go to Wildwood every year back in the early 70's, it was the greatest thing in the world to me and my sister. We were brought there from the time we were 2 and 3, still have pictures of us sitting on the edge of the water. We could not wait until we got big enought to go on the wheel and those pink docks. We made it to the docks, but never got on the wheel. Now that I think I don't even remember getting to the slide tha was just so far out into the lake, well at 7 & 8 it still was so far away. I so wanted to bring my kids there. It was a great place to go and I always remember standing in line with such excitement to receive my paper tag on the silver hook.
Wildwood is sorely missed in our family as I am sure it is with many other families. it was very nice to read the emails from others that visited. Now at 38 I can still remember swinging on the swings and going into the arcade.
Fantastic memories were made!
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| Michael |
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We used to go all the time. We lived in Johnston RI. God, I loved that place. I remember everything about it. I'm 42. Does anyone remember the little tags that used to clip on your bathing suit? I do. Plus all the things in the water, the arcade etc. If I remember, they;re was a field close by and we used to to play football there. I drove up about 8 yrs ago to see if it was still there, and it was fenced. Just another thing from our youth that's diappeared. Great memories!
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| Phil Maynard |
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I lived in Dayville and had two of my best frends, buzzy and billy, that would go with me to "the lake" about 3 days out of every week. I was about 7 years old and that was a time when we were trusted to walk there and play in the water unsupervised for hours than walk home and eat dinner with the family. It was great. I had two aunts who had cottages on the lake also but they were not fun places to be in the summer. Too structured. My most fond memory of the place was holding hands for the first time ever on the beach with my girlfriend, Sandra Leven. Than walking home with here and holding her hand. My GOD. Every fiber of my body was in overdrive. She lived about five houses away from me. It was a great place to be when your a kid. It is closed to the public now. We well probably never see those days again. But the one redeming social factor is that we did have them once and we have the memories to prove it. |
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| Mike |
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I don't remember the paper tag; when I was a kid there was a really cool "invisible" stamp they'd put on your hand, and when you came back into the beach you'd have to put your hand in this wooden box with a curtain and they'd look through and see it with a black light. Very sophisticated stuff to a 6-year-old.
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| Phil Maynard |
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You know there's another place that as an old man I remember fondly. It was called Rocky Point. As a kid my family would go there and eat fritters and clam chowder. All you could eat at the hall. I know it's not there anymore because I visited a couple of sites that showed it disassembled and I guess burned down. What a shame. Allthough times were much simpler than and, at least to me, life was fun and not filled with war, politics and money. But, not to dwell on this but to think about Rocky Point Amusement Park. Anyone else remember the place? |
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Hey I was looking for old pics and info on wildwood park on Alexander's Lake. I had drivin up and also gave the same info about the park closing due to insurance issues. So many great memories from the 80's all the water activities, the arcade, playground and picninc areas. I would love to see old pictures too. I also noticed the post about Rockey Point which was in Warwick RI where I grew up. It also closed many years back and holds soo many fond memories my boyfriend actually worked there as a teenager. I went to 3 concerts there. The rides were great and it is sadley missed by everyone. |
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| Phil Maynard |
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Here's on for you about Rocky Point. As a youngster my entire family, about 18 of us, would go to Rocky Point every year. I know for the grown-ups it was for the food. But for us kids it was the rides. Now as you were getting close to the park or mabe as you were on the road going in a sign would tell you to tune your radio to a certain AM radio station. When they tuned to that station a jingle would come on. It was great. Because all the kids in the car would start to sing and dance.  (Yes... dance. The back seats of the older cars were really big.) I have been to a website where you can hear that jingle. What memories it brings back. Also there is a site that has the receipt for the clam cakes and clam chower you could eat at the dining hall. Try to find them. I'll try and post them here. |
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| Flo |
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Wildwood Park and Rocky Point Park, some of my best memories. During the 60's, my father's big Italian family, all the aunts, uncles, cousins would head to Wildwood on Sunday, about 30 of us. Buy the block of ice, pack those coolers so full. No cans or bottles of water, just jugs full of kool-aid or lemonaide, water. We always got the same spot, as far to the left of the property as as you could get. The elders never left that spot, BBQ and all the food. Chatting and cooking the day away. The cousins, all over the place, without supervision other than by ourselves. You could do that in the 60's. The beach, playground, arcade. And growing up, progressing from those slides near the beach, to the one way out in the water. Going raft to the next depth of rafts every year, until finally, you could go out to the big rafts with the high dive boards. And, growing up to get on the water wheel. What beautiful water. What great memories. And Rocky Point, my Dad shot the fireworks there during the summer. Now that was great, because the first thing we did was check into the office to say we were setting up the display, and they handed him rolls of tickets and later on ride-all-day bracelets for me and my sister, and the friend we each got to bring. What's better than that. Dad also shot the fireworks for most of the church and community festivals in RI, and nearby MA and CT. We spent most weekend nights during the summer at one kind of a festival, fair, amusement place, with a ticket to ride all night. Geez, wish it was the 60's again, as a child. I was born in 57.
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| Joya |
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How exciting to see that so many people remember such a wonderful place. I was researching myself to see if it was still open and now share the nostalgia with all of you about fond memories!! Thanks for posting pictures.
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| Maryellen |
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Thanks to you all. My heart has come alive with all these great memories. These pictures I will print and treasure. It is now time to pass these wonderful memories on to the next generation. I am so grateful to remember it all.
The ferris wheel in the water. The paper tags (a different color each week) and yes we saved them from year to year to save money. Roller Skating, the bar were the adults went while we skated. My first stitches above my eye from my cousin throwing rocks in the water for me to find. It was a time when the whole family was together. Now as I live in California I still search for the beauty of those childhood memories. Thanks again.
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