The Fun House had a huge rotating barrel, kids would try to stick to it to see how high they could get before sliding down. There was a slanted room with zig zag stripes on the walls *that was difficult to navigate and made you feel goofy. A huge inverted wooden cone on the floor would spin faster and faster until you were sliding down to the bottom. Distortion mirrors made you look tall and skinny, or short and fat. A walkway around the second floor had air jets that would blow up women's dresses for a second or two, much to their surprise and the guys delight. And there was the Magic Carpet Ride, in which you entered a small room with a covered bench, and a curtain in front. The bench would gently drop, the curtain would rise, and you were sent down a carpet-covered belt that simulated the undulations of a "Magic Carpet". What a delightful place to spend the day........simpler, innocent, and safer times.
P.S. There was a hole in the fence that only the local kids knew about (along with the entire staff, including park security), and the owner, who refused to repair it, allowing kids who couldn't afford the admission fee access to all the joys and wonders of "Palisades".
Reached #3 on the Billboard Top 100 in June of 1962.
Biggest hit of Freddy 'Boom Boom' Cannon's career. 😁
The Fun House had a huge rotating barrel, kids would try to stick to it to see how high they could get before sliding down. There was a slanted room with zig zag stripes on the walls *that was difficult to navigate and made you feel goofy. A huge inverted wooden cone on the floor would spin faster and faster until you were sliding down to the bottom. Distortion mirrors made you look tall and skinny, or short and fat. A walkway around the second floor had air jets that would blow up women's dresses for a second or two, much to their surprise and the guys delight. And there was the Magic Carpet Ride, in which you entered a small room with a covered bench, and a curtain in front. The bench would gently drop, the curtain would rise, and you were sent down a carpet-covered belt that simulated the undulations of a "Magic Carpet". What a delightful place to spend the day........simpler, innocent, and safer times.
P.S. There was a hole in the fence that only the local kids knew about (along with the entire staff, including park security), and the owner, who refused to repair it, allowing kids who couldn't afford the admission fee access to all the joys and wonders of "Palisades".