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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
Wonderful old photos of the Pike....which brought back memories.
Here is the Tilt-A-Whirl ride. The ride moved in two directions at once. The cabin can be made to spin, plus the chain of cabins move in a circle.
My Navy buddies got me on this ride in 1968 and managed to spin the seats at a wild rate. I was very sick for two days afterwards.
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I found a postcard showing the tilt-a-whirl at what by then was reconfigured and renamed the Nu-Pike (as of 1950).
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Behind it is the Laff in the Dark (where poor
Elmer McCurdy's remains ended up, as the crew of the Six Million Dollar Man discovered)
This one shows the Rotor ride seen in the background of Doug's photo.
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The mustard colored building with the columns is the old bathhouse seen in nearly every postcard of the Long Beach Pike.
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