Anyone remember Earthquake?

This was my favorite ride when I was little. I was so disappointed when I returned one year to find it gone. I miss the pirate ship too. I barely remember the upside down funhouse...only the slanted floor room with the old lady in the rocking chair. I remember seeing the double wheel ferris wheel but I was too small to ride it.

I loved earthquake and the pirate ride. Every year we went I was scareed to go on them and my dad made me go on them. After we were done I'd wat to go again and again!! It is kind of how my son is now with disaster transport.

I guess it was there in 1982, the first year I visited cedar point, but I don't remember it, and never rode it.

I remember the pirate ride, I have rode that before.

I don't know if the fun house was there, I never went in that either, But I remember my brother went 2 years before me, and he talked about this upside down house there.

(fixed supposively) :)

The old lady in the rocking chair was in the first room of the upside down funhouse. The slanted room was a western bar scene.

Pirate Ride was better than Earthquake. Animation was slightly better. Plus, it seemed to be to be a little longer so you had more time to make out with your date!

I remember all of the rides that you listed. Brings back great memories!

Anyone have scars from the spiral slide at the end of the Upside Down Funhouse? No matter how you went down that thing you would always loose a good chunk of skin!

What the hell is a supposively?

Last week when I was at Kennywood, on Ghostwood Estate, I was thinking about how strange it is that no one opens a dark ride anymore unless it's a shooter. I'm not entirely complaining (would love one of those Sally contraptions at CP), but it is strange that you can no longer just ride and observe, as you did in the Earthquake days.

Yes Mike, that slide, especially in shorts, could cause a burn. That sheet metal would get hot in the sun. I always felt bad for the employees who had to work that room at the top of the slide where you entered the tube. It was not air conditioned and, on some days, seemed like an oven.

I remember seeing the employees sitting on that stool sweating to death with nothing but a fan blowing hot air on them! Ahhhh the memories!

I can also hear the voices from Chinatown from the Earthquake ride in my head, I will never forget that! LOL

Jeff.

Sfog just re-did monster mansion...Does that count as a new one?

The fun house old lady in the rocking chair....did she have a cat on her lap? I was like five years old when I went through there, but I always picture a cat on her lap.

Oh the memories of the metal slides and the sun! I miss alot of the old rides!

Dear Lord trying to remember. Wasn't the cat on the floor playing with a ball of yarn, and the old lady was knitting something?

Hmmmm

A good deal of time could be spent just watching people exit the funhouse thru the slide. It could be very comical - sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but always arms and legs akimbo coming out. Sometimes you could here the screaming clear from the top of the slide, so it was fun to wait and see just who was causing all that noise. Through the years I've seen that very type of slide on the sides of buildings and factories to be used as fire escapes. I'm afraid I'd spend my work day praying for a fire drill!

I liked Earthquake better than Pirate Ride for some reason. It seemed a little more darkride-y or something. I still prefer the old fashioned bump-thru-the-dark rides, with startling pop-out scares, to the shoot'em rides. I've said this before, but my wish is that Cedar Point would take that Pirate building, expand it any way necessary, and create a fantastic traditional dark ride. (it would be very popular, but probably not have the necessary capacity for a park that busy)

I loved the old dark rides. It just is not the same with the shooters. When I went to Kennywood I liked Garfield's nightmare was better that Ghostwood estate.

When I was on MF crew back in '06 and the ride was down for a few days like it often was that season, I wound up getting sent to the building that used to house Pirate Ride to help them restock. The entire building is full of random stuff now (including flats upon flats of park maps). Apparently they used to house all this stuff in some storage place off point and it was cheaper to use that building. So, considering how stingy CF has been as of late, don't expect them to do anything with that building anytime soon.

Disney Mike - I'm remembering it the way you do. Old woman rocking in a chair with the cat on the floor wagging its tail out of the way just in time before it would get caught under the rocker!

Talk about slide burns - how about the old sky slide in the burlap sacks. Now those were some burns!

the ffej man said:
When I went to Kennywood I liked Garfield's nightmare was better that Ghostwood estate.

Are you kidding me? Garfield's Nightmare is a fluorescent paint joke. Old Mill was at least novel in that it was, well, old, and then they did that hack job with the paint. Terrible.

I was bored in Ghostwood manor. I just enjoyed sitting back and looking around in nightmare.