Cave Hallway

Looks like you found the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Oh that's too cool Motts! I love the ceiling, looks like you're inside the belly of a monster or something.

Wow! Very nice.

dayum, this looked like one very cool ride!

Hey ~Me Iv looked and seen no tunnel of love, so I guess this will have to do. Once we get on the ride do you still want to sit on my lap?

Yeah, for sure!

Pitch me a tent and I will!

what the hell were they THINKING?
Them ain't no stalactites (well, kiddies, learn your greek)

Wow! I would like to explore this place

Boy, does this bring back memories. The Haunted House was one of my favorite 'rides', & easily one of the cheesiest in the park. I remember those swinging, galley-like doors in the photo above, how the cars bumped thru them into the darkness of the house itself; the smell inside, of (diesel?) fumes, oil, grease is an indelible memory. Best of all was the skeleton figure at the end of the ride (I think): just as you rounded the corner towards the exit & out into the light of day, it pulled open its cloak & flashed its withered titties at you! Great fun.

Man, pass me that joint and turn on the black light!

Yeah this room had both black lights and strobe lights.

Totally screwed with your eyes

Cool picture

These are awesome pictures, I miss Rocky Point.

Hell ya id love to go through this place.

this was once my favorite ride for the "cheese factor". eventually it was replaced by the "mindbender" at Playland.
wonder if that's still there...

This hallway would be on he top floor; an approach to Bill Tracy's torture scene as seen here in Trimper's Haunted House:
http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh5.htm
In the House of Horrors, You could hear the man being streched on the rack groaning as you rode down the corridor. The scene was at the very end of the corridor, then you turned right. This scene was removed in the early 1980s and I'm not sure why.. As I recall from a ride in 1984, a sceaming lady bound in a rope took its place. Somebody replaced much of Tracy's original Castle of Terror figures in 1980s.. Anybody know whom?

Wow! Pretty kinky!

This hallway was not removed. Motts took this photo in 2005.

I may be mistaken because its been a long time but I believe this to be located on the ground floor the last hallway before you exit.

The park props in the 80s were worked upon by Mr. Crudelle. From all accounts a rather odd man from an odd family. You can read about Mr. Crudelle's son here:

http://www.slowart.com/articles/janello.htm

I have no information about the accuracy of the article. It does seem to be written with a flair for the dramatic. I have never met any of the Crudelles.

Thanks John. for that clarification. On the last hallway, bottom floor, there also was a giant bat swooping overhead, but that was gone when I last rode in 1984. The torture scene was on the second floor. It was the first major scene you saw after going up the lift hill, and going out over the baloney. The hall you came down after coming in from the baloney did look like a cave. The scenes I recall on the second floor were torture, mad doctor, giant spider, and Knit Wit (which some people referred to as Mrs. Bates) . It was all Tracy stuff. Trimper's has a Tracy giant bat and a Knit Wit, but the executions are different. http://www.laffintheda...es/trimpers/thh3.htm

Also, the Frigtzone dark ride at Errieview Park has a mad doctor and other Tracy figures.

http://www.laffintheda...rieview/erieview.htm

Motts:If only I had a blacklit flashlight...


Note to self find one somewhere. Bring it.

hey guys...can ppl still sneak in there..i would love to go check it out??

This looks like some sorta toxic liquid's about to drip down on you!

I can still smell this place. Diesel & mold.

Amanda, I just snuck in as you prob. already know. It's easy to get in just don't go in the main gate with the sign cause the police are just at the bottom of the hill. Go in through a different way...get creative. it's worth it.

wow. kinda hot!!!!!!!!!

This was fun when we would get off the ride inside and jump out.........scary

It's a real darn shame that classic dark rides are left to rot, or the parks removes them, or they burn down. There's quite a few old classics left, like the Ocean City Bill Tracy Haunted House built 1962 and Pirate's Cove, and the Haunted Mansion at Rehoboth Beach, and Rye Playland's dark rides, Dante's Inferno's at Coney and Morey's Pier in Wildwood NJ, and there's a few Bill Tracy classics still surviving across the US, there's articles on all of them at the dark ride sites, Whacky Shack, Phantasmagoria, etc. Wildwood had a Bill Tracy Whacky Shack it was located on the now defunct Hunt's Pier which still has the SBNO 1960 PTC/Bill Tracy Golden Nugget Mine Ride but the Shack was torn down early 1996 because the owners at the time who bought the pier in 1995 were redeveloping it into Dinosaur Beach and apparently a classic Bill Tracy dark ride didn't fit in their plans, but they saved the Nugget and "dinosaurized" it. It last operated in 1998. There's also an abandoned dark ride at nearby Sportland Pier, it was called Dr. Blood's House of Horror and last operated around 1983. The Castle Dracula attraction on Nickels Midway Pier which opened in 1977 burned to the ground Jan 2002 due to two young male arsonists who had nothing better to do that day than to skip school and break into the castle and light matches to see in the dark. A real shame, they also lost the 1919 old mill boat ride under the castle which was the Dungeon boat ride and most of the props were handmade. You can see what the castle looked like at www.darkinthepark.com Let's hope tomorrow's kids will have a dark ride to ride. I like Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 because you can build virtual dark rides in it, as well as entire parks and ride your rides.

awesome!!!!

I wonder if they tore the house of horrors down yet? There was a fire at the park last October 06 and the mayor ordered the remaining buildings razed including the house of horrors. Good thing you got pics of the inside in case it does come down. It's a shame that no one appreciates this stuff anymore and the powers that be who are clueless about the rarity and history of this stuff would rather see it come down (can you say "eyesore"?) and build expensive homes there that mean nothing to us park/haunted dark ride fans. A shame that Bill Tracy's work such as this is/could be lost over liability fears. Oh well, Rye Playland still has dark rides. Ocean City, MD still has a Bill Tracy Haunted House ride built 1962 and a Pirate's Cove walk-through built by him, too. There's a few others around including Waldameer's Erie PA Whacky Shack ride and Pirate's Cove walk built by Bill in 1970, 1972 shortly before his death. The Erieview Park Ohio Fright Zone was moved to Conneaut Lake Park for 2007 because Erieview closed for good and auctioned off the rides last October. Fright Zone was built by Bill Tracy in 1963 as Haunted House at West View Park, Pittsburgh which closed 1977 and Erieview bought the ride and moved it in 1979 to Erieview rebuilt it as a one level and renamed it Fright Zone. Now it will live on at Conneaut in a different building.

i dont live too far from the park most of the buildings are still there infact i ripped off one of the letters "h" in house of horrors and i have it hangin in my garage but man all i gotta do sis close my eyes and i remember every square inch of this place

I have some news, the Dr. Blood's House of Horror on Sportland Pier, Wildwood, NJ was just torn down. It was inactive since about 1983. Now I hear this house of horrors at Rocky Point will come down. When was the last year this ride operated? 1995? All the great dark rides are going away. And these two at Rocky Point and Wildwood were built by the late Bill Tracy. I guess the New England area has practically no dark rides anymore. They tore down the Kastle Frankenstein at Salisbury Beach two years ago. Rye Playland, NY still has all it's dark rides. Wildwood, only has a few left, Dante's, Pirate's, Jersey Junkyard, Zombie World, Den of Lost Thieves, Golden Nugget SBNO.

Woooo freaky

Woah! very nice... i love what you've done with the ceiling.... =D

I remember back in the mid to late 70's there used to be a giant bat hanging at the end of the ride just as you approached those double doors at the end. Scared the hell out of my sister every time.

All I know is those horror rides have some pretty out there themes and scenes in them. No wonder so many people from my generation have mental health issues requiring medications. I was a perfectly normal kid before I saw a woman in a black dress chained to the wall beaten and cut up in a fun house waiting for god knows what fate to befall her.

Funny story.

In one of these rides I actually struck one of the "live action" guys who they would regularly have come and hassle your car as you rode through for added fright factor. I was with my girlfriend (now wife) and he was horrified, and they just kept at it despite my asking them to back off multiple times. I am not a violent person at all, but he was actually on the front of the car we were in, and something about her being afraid, the noise of the "fun house", and the scenes all around me must have just triggered a fight or flight reaction.

I had a major confrontation with the carnies outside the ride when it was over.

Not a pretty date to say the least.

I really wish someone back then was able to videotape the ride from beginning to end. My first time in I was 5 years old and I was freaked out beyond hope, lol.

Please note the above "he" should have been "she". Funny though ;)

ooooohh....stalagmites and stalagtights did you add something? (just joking i know you wouldn't do that)

THIS is the one!

Wow, I remember this now as I was 12 when I last rode it for the last time in the early 70"s and it looks pretty much the same in this old photo. The riding cart I recollected banged through the doors and it went back outside and then up then through the doors again and it was a cool ride. So did they tear it down and scraped it or did they place it in a auction I wondered? Memories will live forever with good times with family back then.

Wow, this ride was pretty intense, eh?

I like the way this ride sort of "traps time". I don't know when this ride was built or when the place closed but i'd swear it was anywhere from 1979 to 1987 in here!

THAT LOOK SO WEIRD BUT ITS COOL

I remember going on this ride when i was younger. It was a scary ride, the props were not scary i thought they were cool, it was the clinging clanging and banging as the ride was in motion

did someone say trimpers? Ill meet you there! Its only a short drive away. Ahhhh good memories.. or terrifying... my first haunted house ride. I spent the entire ride with my eyes covered. ecepty for 2 parts: the breif brake outside on the 2nd floor, and when u go into a green spiral thing. so not much help there. but my mother could help. Shes been on it so many times you might have thought she built it!

This Picture is from the very end of the Ride, on the door at the end was a picture of a very vicious cobra snake baring its fangs ready to bite the riders, and then the car bumped open the doors and you were at the end. I truely miss these days, my father, loved this ride, he would always screech and yell inside and people thought it was actually part of the ride!!!