CUDDLE UP Amusement Park Ride-dizzying spins from the 1920's

[Wurlitzer157]

Where did you get the recording of the band organ? It sounds like a Wurlitzer 157?

[ahaindeed43]

7 wheels??!!! thats 2 more than 5!!!!!! i never would have imagined such a ride back in the day.

gorilla farts

[slew12]

@ahaindeed43 Gorilla farts!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha thats hilarious!!!! POOP

[6pig69]

Hersheypark had a 5 wheeler which was very popular which they redressed into "The Coalshaker" with new gondola coverings that looked like boulders of coal. It has since been removed. I do remember several instances of patrons slipping on the greased tracks, possibly being the main reason for the ride's removal! Hershey had also had a traver "Tumble Bug" in storage. It was visible beside one of the maintainance buildings from the monorail for many years.

[DaddyClb]

Rocky Springs Park, in Lancaster, PA, had a 5 wheel Cuddle Up made by PTC. Other than their Wildcat Roller Coaster (also PTC), the Cuddle Up was the most thrilling ride in the park. That may be the one you referred to as being "in storage somewhere in PA". My brother & I worked at the park when it re-opened in 1979-80. Before they closed for good in '80, we rode it for 2 hrs straight, stopping briefly only once, to oil the tracks. Such a classic ride! Thanx 4 posting this wonderful gem!!!!

[djmattclay]

Pleasure Beach Blackpool, England - still has a cuddle up ride :) called "Tea Cups"

[matt515o]

@djmattclay

That ride looks like it's just a 2-turntable Crazy Daisy and not a Cuddle-Up which were famous for having three or more turntables. The Crazy Daisy ride can still be found at several US parks as well, and Zamperla makes a new version of the ride using vehicles rather than teacups.

[djmattclay]

@matt515o it does have two turntables but originally had many more :)

[matt515o]

@djmattclay

Well damn, why did they have to go and do that? I'm heading to Blackpool this Fall.

[pgnorgan]

There was a Cuddle Up Ride at Conneaut Lake Park in Pennsylvania. They had to see lt as part of a plan to keep the park open. Not sure where it is, but would love to see it.

[afterthefox7]

Hershey Park still had the cuddle and the bug in 1986

[dannykewl]

They also had a Cuddle Up at Geauga Lake Park near Cleveland, Ohio. Last time I was there was 1972, the ride was still there. The park closed last year after becoming Six Flags a few years back, then back to Geauga Lake as a part of Cedar Fair. As a young kid, I used to get sick on the Cuddle-Up, but last time I was there, I loved it. I'm sure it had 7 platforms, as it was sizeable. IIRC, the cups were solid colors, like blue, red, yellow, and green. A great missed spin'n'barf ride.

[grvolans]

Great video. Used to be one at Rocky Glen Park in Moosic.

[HD7100]

This is a gone and forgotten ride.Up until about 1961 or so, the ride park at the Wisconsin West Allis State Fair grounds was a permanent ride park. There was a cuddleup ride there and I rode it several times when I was a kid. Through the years since that park has been torn down, I tried to describe the "cuddleup ride" to my various friends but could not get the exact and complicated way that ride functioned across to them. I really miss those days and miss that ride. Thanks for posting this. GK

[mariosupersluggers98]

Thinking That all this is lost it's realy realy sad

[DrBelser12]

Where is this Cuddle Up footage from?

[actioncees]

we have one traveling in holland for children.

only three weels and the cups are spinning yellowcabs.

[Jmac0wns]

Thats very cool and something I've never read about! How is this different from a Tea Cup ride? Is it the same concept with just more wheels it spun around on?

[swampfoxer]

It is a similar concept, but a very different ride. There can be as many as 7 wheels which are connected in a staggered formation. The wheels have a very small radius therefore giving you faster, tighter turns. Not to mention the illusion of nearly crashing into an oncoming cup before it dashes in the other direction. I believe Dorney Park had the last surviving Cuddle Up which they removed around 1994.

[HD7100]

When the permanent rides at the Wisconsin West Allis State Fair grounds were torn out, the Milwaukee news papers had pictures of the process. One picture was of the "cuddleup" partially dismantled. It looked like a very complicated mechanism of gears underneath. I assume that maintaining such a complicated ride was not cost effective for them to simply move the ride to Dandelion Park where many of the rides were relocated to. Both parks were owned by a Mr. Rose. My father worked at Dandelion.

[bsslegel]

@swampfoxer It was called the Iceberg (later renamed the Meteor) and it was indoors. I remember loving to go on it when I was a kid, because it was air conditioned.