Kennywood's Open

[9nationalchampionships]

http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande...-gates-at-kennywood-swing-open-for-the-season

Who here used "Kennywood's Open" when your fly was open when you were a kid ????

 

[upj87]

http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande...-gates-at-kennywood-swing-open-for-the-season

Who here used "Kennywood's Open" when your fly was open when you were a kid ????

not close enough to Pittsburgh for me and we stuck with usual old standards of "xyz" or "hey a**hole your zipper is down dips**t" in Johnstown. Response two was usually countered with "(insert the offender's mother name) forgot to pull it up"....ah, kids.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

Kennywood, and especially Sandcastle, were much better when locally owned. The foreign company that owns them now is from the Nutting school of management.....put the bare minimum into the business in order to make sure people don't realize the con and turn away. I don't think Sandcastle has made one capital improvement in the past 10 years. And the self proclaimed coaster capital really blew it with replacing the turnpike with a very lame coaster.

 

[Swervin27]

Kennywood, and especially Sandcastle, were much better when locally owned. The foreign company that owns them now is from the Nutting school of management.....put the bare minimum into the business in order to make sure people don't realize the con and turn away. I don't think Sandcastle has made one capital improvement in the past 10 years. And the self proclaimed coaster capital really blew it with replacing the turnpike with a very lame coaster.

that's a decent coaster, im pissed about the Garfield boat ride. how are 5th graders supposed to get to First base on that ride now, with freakin Odie and Garfield?

im not sure if the ride is still there but it was some ride straight from the depths of hell, was where the enterprise used to be, on the backside of Noah's ark. had some Volcano theme, it was two rows and the thing would spin in a circle but also flip upside down and around while going in a circle.. Then to add to it, it would have you at a 90 degree angle, facing straight down, about 30' off the ground, your life being spared only by some little bar around your waist and to tap it all off, they'd shoot water in your face. I want the creator of that ride to spend eternity in hades..


EDIT: I found it. king kahuna, pic below.

 

[Chad40301]

that's a decent coaster, im pissed about the Garfield boat ride. how are 5th graders supposed to get to First base on that ride now, with freakin Odie and Garfield?

im not sure if the ride is still there but it was some ride straight from the depths of hell, was where the enterprise used to be, on the backside of Noah's ark. had some Volcano theme, it was two rows and the thing would spin in a circle but also flip upside down and around while going in a circle.. Then to add to it, it would have you at a 90 degree angle, facing straight down, about 30' off the ground, your life being spared only by some little bar around your waist and to tap it all off, they'd shoot water in your face. I want the creator of that ride to spend eternity in hades..


EDIT: I found it. king kahuna, pic below.

Haha I was just talking about how much I hated that ride the other day.

 

[Somerset Panther]

http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande...-gates-at-kennywood-swing-open-for-the-season

Who here used "Kennywood's Open" when your fly was open when you were a kid ????

haha, I grew up in Munhall, and immediately looked down to check

 

[Darth_VadEER]

that's a decent coaster, im pissed about the Garfield boat ride. how are 5th graders supposed to get to First base on that ride now, with freakin Odie and Garfield?

im not sure if the ride is still there but it was some ride straight from the depths of hell, was where the enterprise used to be, on the backside of Noah's ark. had some Volcano theme, it was two rows and the thing would spin in a circle but also flip upside down and around while going in a circle.. Then to add to it, it would have you at a 90 degree angle, facing straight down, about 30' off the ground, your life being spared only by some little bar around your waist and to tap it all off, they'd shoot water in your face. I want the creator of that ride to spend eternity in hades..


EDIT: I found it. king kahuna, pic below.

Conneaut Lake Park, which was once a great vacation spot near Meadville had a ride called the Hell Hole.

It looked like something out of a Freddy nightmare. It was one of those rides that spun so you'd stick to the walls, but the floor would drop...somewhat considerably.

It was bright red inside and had a cool, creepy vacant feel to it and there was an old, metal balcony you could view the people riding from above....and it felt shakey as hell.

They also had a ride called the Mouse Trap, or Wild Mouse Trap. It was a runaway coaster ride that looked like it never had been inspected.

If I find pictures, I will post them.

 

[BuffetParrothead]

The dogs walking!

 

[Swervin27]

Conneaut Lake Park, which was once a great vacation spot near Meadville had a ride called the Hell Hole.

It looked like something out of a Freddy nightmare. It was one of those rides that spun so you'd stick to the walls, but the floor would drop...somewhat considerably.

It was bright red inside and had a cool, creepy vacant feel to it and there was an old, metal balcony you could view the people riding from above....and it felt shakey as hell.

They also had a ride called the Mouse Trap, or Wild Mouse Trap. It was a runaway coaster ride that looked like it never had been inspected.

If I find pictures, I will post them.

They had a gravity ride like that at kennywood for a season or two. The roter. You spin and floor drops. Someone would puke on it about 4 times a day and they'd close it to clean up so they eventually took it out.

Never liked that spinning feeling. Cool with roller coasters but that round and round crap killed me. Only one I ever did was the enterprise but that was only because you'd get a girl to sit between your legs. That's practically sex when you are 12.

 

[pitt-girl]

They had a gravity ride like that at kennywood for a season or two. The roter. You spin and floor drops. Someone would puke on it about 4 times a day and they'd close it to clean up so they eventually took it out.

Never liked that spinning feeling. Cool with roller coasters but that round and round crap killed me. Only one I ever did was the enterprise but that was only because you'd get a girl to sit between your legs. That's practically sex when you are 12.

Swervin - you crack me up.

 

[Darth_VadEER]

They had a gravity ride like that at kennywood for a season or two. The roter. You spin and floor drops. Someone would puke on it about 4 times a day and they'd close it to clean up so they eventually took it out.

Never liked that spinning feeling. Cool with roller coasters but that round and round crap killed me. Only one I ever did was the enterprise but that was only because you'd get a girl to sit between your legs. That's practically sex when you are 12.

Found some info on those rides.

When you were a little kid....this was terrifying. A big red devil with his dick tangling at you.

I remember teenagers lining up for the ride and me basically hugging my dad's leg, not wanting to go near it. I'd watch from the metal balcony/death trap inside the ride. My older sister told me terrible stories about people falling from the wall and breaking their ankles.

But stuff like this is why America was so great.

 

[FreeportPanther]

Found some info on those rides.

When you were a little kid....this was terrifying. A big red devil with his dick tangling at you.

I remember teenagers lining up for the ride and me basically hugging my dad's leg, not wanting to go near it. I'd watch from the metal balcony/death trap inside the ride. My older sister told me terrible stories about people falling from the wall and breaking their ankles.

But stuff like this is why America was so great.

A devil with his dick tangling at you.....I don't know, sounds pretty terrifying right now!

 

[crharris8892]

I prefer to use the waltism " Swinging Gate" to refer to any open fly

 

[HailToPitt1985]

They had a gravity ride like that at kennywood for a season or two. The roter. You spin and floor drops. Someone would puke on it about 4 times a day and they'd close it to clean up so they eventually took it out.

Never liked that spinning feeling. Cool with roller coasters but that round and round crap killed me. Only one I ever did was the enterprise but that was only because you'd get a girl to sit between your legs. That's practically sex when you are 12.

You can get the girl to sit between your legs on the Bayern Kurve at Kennywood, too. And that things goes around so fast and swerves so much, well.....you get the idea.