Do You Remember Riverview Park?

[Suzikat3]

Riverview Beach Park was awesome. What a great time to grow up. My sister lived on North River Drive and I would walk to the park and spend hours. No admission fee. You could just watch the people having fun and hear all those sounds. Screaming , Merry Go Round. RollerCoaster going Clickety Clack. All the good food to eat. . I think that if they could have held on just a few more years, it would have been of such historic significance that people would have fought to keep it going.

[buddyeight2000]

WOW, what memories I lived next to the park, I remember the robot that was there i had to close my bedroom shad down at night so the robot wouldn't come and get me LOL. My grandmon worked there as did my mom and dad, i also remember sally star coming to the park with chief halftown. funny i now live near disney.

[Suzikat3]

@buddyeight2000 I grew up in Carney's Pt., but my deceased husband grew up on Lakeview Ave. in the 50's and he used to tell us stories of having to go to bed but still hearing the people screaming as they went down the Roller Coaster. He loved growing up there. I too remember Sally Starr. She was a real beauty when she was young. Boy those were the days. I would give anything to take a walk down memory lane and spend just one more day there. Awesome. What years did you live there?

[DuVillaBrothers]

One of my best childhood memories was going to Riverview Beach on Fathers Day in 1964. On the way home I recall listening to Jim Bunings perfect game on the radio. Talk about a great day!

[angelafreas]

Oh my gosh!!!! All the memories -- wonder if any of them were me!!

[lowreyluvr]

Thanks for the wonderful memories. I went there a lot while growing up in Pennsville. It even took me by surprise and brought tears to my eyes when I saw my dad driving the Riverview 777 Train. I was really surprised to see him and how young he looked then. WOW! What a trip down memory lane.

[gratefuldee]

i use to love to take the ferry over to riverview park. it held the best memories of my childhood. wish it was still there like it was when i was a kid.

[hdcompton]

Thank You, boy does this bring back memories. We used to take the ferry from Phila to Riverview it was our annual parish picnic St. barnabas.

[freshair345]

Sweet... my mother was a waitress at Riverview

[kidirish]

On the Wilson Line! from Philly

[sjtom57]

Great memories. I'll take an old-fashioned amusement park any day over the modern corperate-run piles of junk.

[MrPriceizryte]

Wow,the ol' park looks soo fresh in this vid. I grew up in DM,and loved Riv. Park, and always wondered if there was big bass in that smelly little pond behind the Wild mouse ;)

[AtlantaGymFan]

From 1956 through 1964, when we moved from Chicago to Atlanta, my dad took me and a friend to Riverview every summer! From the Bobs to the Flying Cars to the Ghost Train, everything seemed huge and scary and fun! Thanks!

[marlboro936]

OH Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this! It's terrific. from Pville, NJ :)

[GANNAMEDE]

My first visit was at age 13, and it was absolute magic to a farm boy. I went with two friends aged twelve in the 1950's and we were let off at the gate in the afternoon with enough money to keep us going till closing, there was never a single thought of finding any trouble whatsoever. We talked about it for weeks, and it remains one of the best times of my young life. That's how precious a world without dope and violence can be. Our children can never know how great this country was then!

[ryant433]

even tho i was born in 1999 i wish it was still here it looks fun

[randojazz1]

I remember taking a ferry on the Delaware river from the wharf at Bristol Pa for my fathers company picnic. Loved the boat ride and the park.. Early 1960's...

[churchillstevester1]

Was this when Chicago was most white?

[RJBFIRECHIEF1]

@churchillstevester1 Yes

After it changed they closed it down.

[wwd500]

I remember this so well. I grew up in Pennsville and used to ride these rides in the 50's. I remember it so well. It was a wonderful park. Too bad the city did not also keep some of the rides going.

[jeryl1968]

goodtimes wish i could have grew up then and seen the park the way he did its nice now its got an excersise walkway to go walk and a playground and a place to have picnics we still have the septemberfest every year but its all buesness now not like it used to be when people did it for fun and goodtimes with friends of penssville or people from out of pennsville its a shame that cost or running it and maintaining it got in the way of keeping it going sad itll never be that way again

[jeryl1968]

and my dad talked about all the good times he had it closed before me and my brother were born he talked about how the pool was the only pool in pennsville at the time and the rowboats in the park his other uncle ran the spaceship swings and the marrygoround my dad used to ride his cushman scooter to the park and he said when he couldnt get it started he would walk from eastpittsfeild street where he lived with my grandparents he said those days if i had two dollers i could do almost anything

[jeryl1968]

my family grew up in pennsville i still live in pennsville my grandfather and my dad his two uncles worked at riverview beach park when it was up and running im surprised they closed it it was a good time the wilson line from deleware used to bring people back and fourth all summer long my dad was a kid at the time and used to find change under the wilson line pier and collect extra ride ticketts as people went back to deleware and his uncle used to run the rollercoaster

[onclocker1]

I have lived all over the country,but my great childhood memories were here w/ my St. James freinds and my brother and cousins.the pool was awsome

[pennsvilledawgs]

aww i love pennsville to death if it changes or not. its the best town and anyone who lives here will surely say that too. now the park is only like tht one day a year. thts the septemberfest. (not counting the football fair) . i love pv always and forever.

[dwade00]

Just moved to stupid Mount Laurel about a month ago my 6 yrs in Pville were the best in my life

[TCall2004]

I went there once in the early 1960s. We took the boat over from Philadelphia.

[eandatoo]

Thanks for this wonderful video of the park. I use to go there every summer and our family had our Loveland Famley reunions there. i remember all those rides and the roller rink. Former South Jersey Girl

[summerlove4939]

i wish pennsville was stlil like that. The bad overshadows the good, the education department has gone extremely down hill, drug use has been on a huge rise over the past 6 years, it's really sad how once a thriving town turned into what it is today. I live in pennsville as a senior in PMHS,and i'd give anything for pennsville to be like that again.

[wwd500]

This is sad to hear. I remember the old days of Pennsville and PMHS decades ago when it first opened. I graduated from there.

[ForeignerPhan]

I grew up in PV and I moved away in '83(my mom still lives there though). I have sketchy memories about the park as I was a little kid when it closed in the mid 60's. I DO remember swimming in the olympic-size pool when I was three years old.

[cbulford]

Grew up in Carney's Point. My first job was selling tickets in the booth in front of the merry go round. Remember Mrs. Salatra?

[OP32073FL]

Thanks for sharing. Wonderful memories from the forty's. Famiy, shaded picnic tables, and just plain great fun. Too bad we lost those days.

[jlee5346]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Brings back good old memories. I remember many of Tuesday nights Sally Starr and her horse Pal making the trip from Philly to Riverview Beach Park by ferry. Tuesday night was half price for ride tickets. Half of Delaware Valley showed up.

[southjerseygirl]

Thanks for the video. I grew up in PV and am still here. The Park....so much fun. I would never get on the airplanes or the silver rockets because I was sure the cables would break and I'd be flying out over the river. Also, had fun at the pool and the skating rink. Later when the skating rink closed, we went to the dances there. WAMS djs would be there and brodcast live.

[alkajaau]

OMG - I remembered the location of all these rides - plus the memory of those around it - lived at the pool every summer for years and lived a block away in the late 50's and early 60's!! Thanks for posting this - if you didn't "live it" you can't imagine how wonderful it was!

[dhight06]

Several years ago, the Septemberfest parade had the rocket ship and the donkey ride from this park which were restored by my grandfather. Still have em in our back yard because he is too old to continue that endeaver.

[WA2JSG]

OMG! What a video!

I remember just about all those rides... in the late 40's my parents took me there quite often. Who knows, maybe I was even there that day as a young boy. Anyone remember the donkeys and big wooden roller coaster?

Curt (born in Salem)

[LiberalshateAmerica]

Never saw a video of it before, thank you!

[wwd500]

I grew up there way back. It was a wonderful place to hang out and we all had lots and lots of fun! It was, of course, far larger than in the video, but this video certainly covered many of the rides quite well.

[shananagins91]

Live a mile away fron There! Go there for track every day!! love it!!

[91CTD]

Its a beautiful place now! i cant imagine how fun it used to be. Me and my friends hang out there often by the river.