This is how I remember it. I was born in '79 and spent my summers along the Jersey seaboard. We stayed in a trailer park 5 min. from Sea Isle City. I combed the beach and found nice shells and sold them to shops for ride & game money. That's all I did for 3 months, play games, get on rides, and go to the beach. Every day was the best of my life, until the next.
Videos like this are what make Youtube so great. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I really wish they had keep this pier, it's pretty much a waste of space these days, I mean come on, it's got nothing on it except go-karts??.. how about mori adding another pier of rides or something
Golden Nugget is actually coming back at Knoebel's. It looks a little different, but it uses the original track and rebuilt trains. It's going to be a haunted coal mine. It's opening this summer.
Golden Nugget is actually coming back at Knoebel's. It looks a little different, but it uses the original track and rebuilt trains. It's going to be a haunted coal mine. It's opening this summer.
Golden Nugget is actually coming back at Knoebel's. It looks a little different, but it uses the original track and rebuilt trains. It's going to be a haunted coal mine. It's opening this summer.
Golden Nugget is actually coming back at Knoebel's. It looks a little different, but it uses the original track and rebuilt trains. It's going to be a haunted coal mine. It's opening this summer.
Golden Nugget is actually coming back at Knoebel's. It looks a little different, but it uses the original track and rebuilt trains. It's going to be a haunted coal mine. It's opening this summer.
Oh, the pier was run by William C. Hunt from 1957 through July, 12 1970 when he passed away, brothers Guy and Bud Hunt until mid 1970's, and Bud Hunt alone through 1985 because Guy passed away after surgery in 1975 or so. Bud sold the pier to David Kami, Ted Snyder (owner of Sportland Pier since 1984) and another guy in Feb 1986. Those owners would have been running the pier in 1988 while Bud Hunt and Vince Kostek (manager of the pier between 1957-1985) were enjoying retirement.
I used to ride on that mini train as a kid between 1980 and 1983. I remember in 1983 or so it was broke down, coaches without loco stored back toward tunnel and I was disappointed. The train ride always went around twice per ride when I rode it. I liked the ghost town in the back with the shooting skeletons and the dark tunnel. After the tunnel, it went behind the Whacky Shack and then to the station. It still sickens me that all those custom rides are gone and much of it was thrown away.
gold nugget's gone now-they were going to restore until they found out the shell contained asbestos, so being the weenies they are, the owners destroyed it.
@dizco80 i was sad when i learned skua was gone also. those old rides were every summer of my childhood.
The Pirate Ship!! The year I finally had the guts to go inside, I thought it was going to be a haunted house (well it was sorta, but more funhouse) and I went through it at least 5 times in one day. Went back the following year to go on it again, went to the end of the pier...and no Pirate Ship. My mom even thought we were on the wrong pier!! Asked the ticket booth lady and she said they took the old rides down to make way for new ones! I can still picture me standing there upset!
Those were the days man, after an early evening fucking teenie boppers (18+) under the boardwalk it was off to the Playpen for a night filled of drinking and whoring ...
@crjtwister1080 I'm 26 too and I was the same way as a kid. I had to ride the Keystone Cops at least 5 times or I'd scream lol. I also miss that shotting game. It made the coolest sounds. Now Hunt's pier reminds me of a sad lil grave yard of the past. So dead, quiet, and boring. Wildwood will never be the same without Hunts pier and it's dark rides.
OMG I love it. You got a shot of the gun game I use to love and my favorite ride Keystone Cops. Wow this brings back memories. And omg I love how u can hear the song "Color My Love" by Fun Fun in the background while ur filming the ship. GREAT video. Thank you so much for posting.
i will never forget that place as long as i live. the shooting gallery was a classic. the sights sounds were so unique and wildwood was such a great place for me with so so many lifetime memories. thank you for posting this great video.
was there a floom ride on this pier? idk i was little when i was on this pier only one time and i remember like.. some floomy thing with a dinosaur tail or something sticking out
I guess this was one of the last years for great One of a Kind attractions in Wildwood...it's still cool and fun, but much of the uniqueness is gone with the loss of classics like the Whacky Shack, Keystone Cops, Jungleland etc. Thanks for this great look at the past!
The Nugget track and trains are going to Knoebels. Perhaps they are going to use them to build a new dark ride with. But, nothing will be done this year with them at Knoebels, maybe next year.
Whaccky Shack became Hunt's Horror in 1989 and was removed from the pier early 1996 after SBNO 1995. In 1996 it became Dinosaur Beach with a reopened Golden Nugget and a new dark ride on the left side called Escape from Dinosaur Beach, but it closed 9/1998. Morey's kept the Nugget to explore their options on what to do with it, but in the end it proved too costly to reopen and to comply with strict NJ state laws. The props are going to Morey's other dark rides. The track and trains were sold.
Did the Nugget originally shut down because it fell out of compliance with updated safety laws? I've wondered for a while what the last year it ran was, and why it stopped running.
i think it closed in '98 cause i remember riding when i was 3 with my pop pop and the next year the pier turned into a go carr pier in '99 but i atleast can say i rode the last classid wildwood ride. anyway i always thought that pier was haunted because it was dark and old. all the moveable hunts rides are there at old hunts pier its freaky back there especially at night.
The Whacky Shack has been gone since early 1996 when Dino Beach people removed it. It was retitled Hunt's Horror in 1989. The colored swaying Whacky Shack letters were removed from the facade after 1988. The Shack was built in 1963 by Bill Tracy from Cape May County, he also had a manufacturing facility in North Bergen, NJ. Most of the Hunt's dark rides involved the work of Bill Tracy. Too bad several of his rides closed in recent years. The Nugget is being removed 2009, but props saved.
NO!! Why are they removing the golden nugget? Whenever my family and I see it they tell me about the pier and howing seeing it brings back memories. It would break there hearts if it were removed.
great video...brings me back to the good old days. only those of us that were kids in the 80's can appreciate the sites and sounds of hunts pier. i dont understand why morey hasnt reopened the pier with those old fashioned dark rides. they have so many of the same rides on each of their piers. countless go-kart tracks, skycoaster, tilta-whirl...just to name a few. the dark rides on hunts pier are what separated wildwood from any other seaside amusement park. now its just like any other...shame!
When I said 1988, I ment the last year it ran as the Original "Hunt's Pier." That winter the Flyer, Train Ride, Hot Rods, & Jugleland were all rasised to make way for new rides. Starting in 1989, it ran under 2 different titles like Conko's Party Pier & The New Hunt's Pier. From 96 to 98 it was known as Dinosaur Beach in which most of the rides had a Dinosaur Theme. The pier closed in 1998 & has been sitting idle since 99. The pier only has the Golden Nugget left but hasn't ran for 10 years now.
Truly this video leaves an impresion on my heart and my soul. This is the way the Wildwood boardwalk was when I used to go there as a little boy. This video captures the sights and sounds of my childhood. Some of the best times and memories of my life. Old Wildwood rules.
Hunt's is gone because Bud Hunt chose to sell the pier in fall 1985, and the new owner David Kami decided to raze half the rides on the left after 1988, and in the 90's it fell into disrepair, and Dino Beach only saved the Nugget, Flume, and Rapids. The Whacky Shack was razed early 1996. Not sure if the props were saved, but I heard that they might be in storage. It was built by the late Bill Tracy from Cape May Co. in 1963. He built dark rides, remodeled them, and the company closed 1979.
The past days of Wildwood were absolutly the greatest. Things have changed down there eventhough it's still a great place to visit.
Watching this video wakes up a special place in my soul as it probably does for all those who remember the "Wacky Shack" and that little donut shop where the old convention hall was.
i worked on Hunt's pier during the summer of 1988. i was hoping to see myself , but i didn't. i worked on the rampaging rapids ride which was at the very end of the pier and which wasn't shown in this video. that was an awesome summer. i remember that about half of the employees on the pier were kids from Ireland and england. i was 19 then and i sure miss those wildwood days
I share the sentiment of many a person... Wildwood really Isn't the Wildwood I grew up with without Hunt's Pier. Keystone Kops, Wacky Shack (Later called Hunt's Horror) and the ever classic Golden Nugget were great little "Laff in the dark" style rides, as one web site once called 'em.
They called it "JungleLand", actually..and, yup, it did indeed once used to be on Hunt's Pier. And, with that ride, as well as a few others on Hunt's and even Morey's Pier what with the "Country Bear Jubilee" attraction, these were basically scaled versions of some of the stuffs that DisneyWorld had been offering up (but with different names for their versions of those rides). Hunt's pier is gone because the members of the Hunt family that owned the pier are gone, and so it got sold.
their not their the old gold nugget was their and functional til 1998 and in 2009 was removed and takin to konobels. its just storage sheds of old rides and old tramcars.
THIS is the Wildwood I remember & loved. Hunt's Pier was the best. I must have ridden each of the rides on here 100 times over the years. I have not been to wildwood since around 1993. I'm kind of afraid to go back. I hear it's completely different.If anyone else has more Wildwood video's from the 80's to early 90's post'em already! The 1986 is great too by Meltaylor.
great video i loved the mine ride.george the animal steel, use to visit the ride every year.why do i know this? because i'm the guy sleeping with that chessey mustach.now im in utah a long way from the shore
wow, the Motel burned down a few years ago, and the GOLDEN Nugget has been closed for years, the reason? it has alot of asbestos inside it, when it was built, asbestos was considered ok... great video, thanks!
There isn't really another park around like Hunt's Pier, but as for Bill Tracy dark rides like the Whacky Shack, there's a larger model at Waldameer, Erie, PA and a Pirate's Cove walkthrough. Joyland Wichita has the first Whacky Shack built but the park is closed this year. Trimper's in Ocean City, MD has the Haunted House and Pirate's Cove but that park is in danger now, too. It's like what's happening in Wildwood and elsewhere with old motels coming down for million dollar condos.
I remember a ride called the Himalaya!1I loved it! But the one I remember was on Midway in the 80's. I vaguely remember Hunts pier, I was still pretty young when it closed.
Cool video. Thats the way I remember Wildwood. I was there in 86,89 and 90. Have not been there since. Taking my kids this year. Thanks for the memories.
Well I guess you have to expect some changes after 20 years, but it would of been nice if they refurbished and kept a few of the old rides and sights.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane. I don't live to far from Wildwood.They might reopen the golden nugget on a different pier.Hunt's Pier was my favorite pier of them all. I loved the golden nugget and keystone kops. I was always afraid of the whacky shack but I went on it anyway with my sister.She would hold my hand.
It's a shame the WHACKY SHACK wasn't saved. It was still on the pier in 1995, although closed and blocked off with a wall across the pier. The Nugget was closed that year, too as well as the Log Flume which was taken down 2001 and is now at Arnold's Park in Iowa. I rode the flume for the first and last time in 1998. I was too scared to ride it back in the early 80's but I rode the Nugget and other rides back then. I rode the GN for the first time since 1983 in 1996 when it reopened.
I visited Hunt's between 1980-1983. I have memories of my father there, he passed away in Mar. 1986, car hit him near home. Vincent Kostek, former pier manager between 1957-1985 passed away last June. He helped build the Flyer and other rides. William "Bud" Hunt former owner until fall 1985 passed away 1991. Most of the Hunt's former properties are now either abandoned or gone including the movie theaters.
thanks, the history of wildwood is an interesting one... hunt's pier was bought after dinosuar beach closed in 2005 by Morey... now the tramcars park there, with eventually new rides.
This is how I remember it. I was born in '79 and spent my summers along the Jersey seaboard. We stayed in a trailer park 5 min. from Sea Isle City. I combed the beach and found nice shells and sold them to shops for ride & game money. That's all I did for 3 months, play games, get on rides, and go to the beach. Every day was the best of my life, until the next.
Videos like this are what make Youtube so great. Thanks for the nostalgia.
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I really wish they had keep this pier, it's pretty much a waste of space these days, I mean come on, it's got nothing on it except go-karts??.. how about mori adding another pier of rides or something
boafshow 7 months ago
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boafshow 7 months ago
Thank you for sharing! This brought back so
many wonderful childhood memories. Wasn't there a coaster called the kamakazee on hunts pier as well?
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Golden Nugget is actually coming back at Knoebel's. It looks a little different, but it uses the original track and rebuilt trains. It's going to be a haunted coal mine. It's opening this summer.
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Oh, the pier was run by William C. Hunt from 1957 through July, 12 1970 when he passed away, brothers Guy and Bud Hunt until mid 1970's, and Bud Hunt alone through 1985 because Guy passed away after surgery in 1975 or so. Bud sold the pier to David Kami, Ted Snyder (owner of Sportland Pier since 1984) and another guy in Feb 1986. Those owners would have been running the pier in 1988 while Bud Hunt and Vince Kostek (manager of the pier between 1957-1985) were enjoying retirement.
rwk360 10 months ago
I used to ride on that mini train as a kid between 1980 and 1983. I remember in 1983 or so it was broke down, coaches without loco stored back toward tunnel and I was disappointed. The train ride always went around twice per ride when I rode it. I liked the ghost town in the back with the shooting skeletons and the dark tunnel. After the tunnel, it went behind the Whacky Shack and then to the station. It still sickens me that all those custom rides are gone and much of it was thrown away.
rwk360 10 months ago
gold nugget's gone now-they were going to restore until they found out the shell contained asbestos, so being the weenies they are, the owners destroyed it.
@dizco80 i was sad when i learned skua was gone also. those old rides were every summer of my childhood.
zatoth13 1 year ago
Short vid, but so many memories.
sjtom57 1 year ago
The Pirate Ship!! The year I finally had the guts to go inside, I thought it was going to be a haunted house (well it was sorta, but more funhouse) and I went through it at least 5 times in one day. Went back the following year to go on it again, went to the end of the pier...and no Pirate Ship. My mom even thought we were on the wrong pier!! Asked the ticket booth lady and she said they took the old rides down to make way for new ones! I can still picture me standing there upset!
Dizco80 1 year ago
Those were the days man, after an early evening fucking teenie boppers (18+) under the boardwalk it was off to the Playpen for a night filled of drinking and whoring ...
The 80's fucking rocked Gismo !
Trader5822 1 year ago
@crjtwister1080 I'm 26 too and I was the same way as a kid. I had to ride the Keystone Cops at least 5 times or I'd scream lol. I also miss that shotting game. It made the coolest sounds. Now Hunt's pier reminds me of a sad lil grave yard of the past. So dead, quiet, and boring. Wildwood will never be the same without Hunts pier and it's dark rides.
LeesieC 1 year ago
OMG I love it. You got a shot of the gun game I use to love and my favorite ride Keystone Cops. Wow this brings back memories. And omg I love how u can hear the song "Color My Love" by Fun Fun in the background while ur filming the ship. GREAT video. Thank you so much for posting.
LeesieC 1 year ago
i will never forget that place as long as i live. the shooting gallery was a classic. the sights sounds were so unique and wildwood was such a great place for me with so so many lifetime memories. thank you for posting this great video.
"please watch the tram car"
crk140 1 year ago
OMG that shooting gallery was the shit!!!
CodenameSailorv1 1 year ago
was there a floom ride on this pier? idk i was little when i was on this pier only one time and i remember like.. some floomy thing with a dinosaur tail or something sticking out
FromA2mee 1 year ago
Graet Vid- I remeber
Busaridermazz 2 years ago
I guess this was one of the last years for great One of a Kind attractions in Wildwood...it's still cool and fun, but much of the uniqueness is gone with the loss of classics like the Whacky Shack, Keystone Cops, Jungleland etc. Thanks for this great look at the past!
powscience 2 years ago
Wow, lots of great memories as a kid! Thanks!
djluna 2 years ago
You will find most of the Nugget props in Morey's 4 dark rides this summer.
rwk360 3 years ago
The Nugget track and trains are going to Knoebels. Perhaps they are going to use them to build a new dark ride with. But, nothing will be done this year with them at Knoebels, maybe next year.
rwk360 3 years ago
Whaccky Shack became Hunt's Horror in 1989 and was removed from the pier early 1996 after SBNO 1995. In 1996 it became Dinosaur Beach with a reopened Golden Nugget and a new dark ride on the left side called Escape from Dinosaur Beach, but it closed 9/1998. Morey's kept the Nugget to explore their options on what to do with it, but in the end it proved too costly to reopen and to comply with strict NJ state laws. The props are going to Morey's other dark rides. The track and trains were sold.
rwk360 3 years ago
Did the Nugget originally shut down because it fell out of compliance with updated safety laws? I've wondered for a while what the last year it ran was, and why it stopped running.
powscience 2 years ago
i think it closed in '98 cause i remember riding when i was 3 with my pop pop and the next year the pier turned into a go carr pier in '99 but i atleast can say i rode the last classid wildwood ride. anyway i always thought that pier was haunted because it was dark and old. all the moveable hunts rides are there at old hunts pier its freaky back there especially at night.
TheFattMarker 2 years ago
No the pier never burned down. I know I am commenting 4 months later but idc.
singingqueen96 3 years ago
The Whacky Shack has been gone since early 1996 when Dino Beach people removed it. It was retitled Hunt's Horror in 1989. The colored swaying Whacky Shack letters were removed from the facade after 1988. The Shack was built in 1963 by Bill Tracy from Cape May County, he also had a manufacturing facility in North Bergen, NJ. Most of the Hunt's dark rides involved the work of Bill Tracy. Too bad several of his rides closed in recent years. The Nugget is being removed 2009, but props saved.
rwk360 3 years ago
NO!! Why are they removing the golden nugget? Whenever my family and I see it they tell me about the pier and howing seeing it brings back memories. It would break there hearts if it were removed.
singingqueen96 3 years ago
great video...brings me back to the good old days. only those of us that were kids in the 80's can appreciate the sites and sounds of hunts pier. i dont understand why morey hasnt reopened the pier with those old fashioned dark rides. they have so many of the same rides on each of their piers. countless go-kart tracks, skycoaster, tilta-whirl...just to name a few. the dark rides on hunts pier are what separated wildwood from any other seaside amusement park. now its just like any other...shame!
bronxitalia31 3 years ago
is the whacky shack still there ?
lifelion77 3 years ago
no but I know the Skyline Golf sign has been up since the pier opened and well over a decade since it closed
KornmanUNstoppable 3 years ago
Are you sure 1988 was the last summer that Hunt's Pier was around, since I remember as recently as 1992 or 1993 in which it was still open.
Brettfern 3 years ago
When I said 1988, I ment the last year it ran as the Original "Hunt's Pier." That winter the Flyer, Train Ride, Hot Rods, & Jugleland were all rasised to make way for new rides. Starting in 1989, it ran under 2 different titles like Conko's Party Pier & The New Hunt's Pier. From 96 to 98 it was known as Dinosaur Beach in which most of the rides had a Dinosaur Theme. The pier closed in 1998 & has been sitting idle since 99. The pier only has the Golden Nugget left but hasn't ran for 10 years now.
patman846 3 years ago
Truly this video leaves an impresion on my heart and my soul. This is the way the Wildwood boardwalk was when I used to go there as a little boy. This video captures the sights and sounds of my childhood. Some of the best times and memories of my life. Old Wildwood rules.
CK80s 3 years ago
Hunt's is gone because Bud Hunt chose to sell the pier in fall 1985, and the new owner David Kami decided to raze half the rides on the left after 1988, and in the 90's it fell into disrepair, and Dino Beach only saved the Nugget, Flume, and Rapids. The Whacky Shack was razed early 1996. Not sure if the props were saved, but I heard that they might be in storage. It was built by the late Bill Tracy from Cape May Co. in 1963. He built dark rides, remodeled them, and the company closed 1979.
rwk360 3 years ago
they are i saw the letters...
TheFattMarker 2 years ago
Great memories, classic Jersey Shore
nj3535 3 years ago
The past days of Wildwood were absolutly the greatest. Things have changed down there eventhough it's still a great place to visit.
Watching this video wakes up a special place in my soul as it probably does for all those who remember the "Wacky Shack" and that little donut shop where the old convention hall was.
Thank you for a great video.
tonyroccoJR 3 years ago
This brings back so many memories. The Golden Nugget was my all time fav ride.
noisyrag 3 years ago
I always wanted to ride "The Whacky Shack"
trleft 3 years ago
i worked on Hunt's pier during the summer of 1988. i was hoping to see myself , but i didn't. i worked on the rampaging rapids ride which was at the very end of the pier and which wasn't shown in this video. that was an awesome summer. i remember that about half of the employees on the pier were kids from Ireland and england. i was 19 then and i sure miss those wildwood days
blackstormdog05 3 years ago
Is this place still open
trleft 3 years ago
sad to say many of the old rides were better than the ones there today
samantha11111 4 years ago
I share the sentiment of many a person... Wildwood really Isn't the Wildwood I grew up with without Hunt's Pier. Keystone Kops, Wacky Shack (Later called Hunt's Horror) and the ever classic Golden Nugget were great little "Laff in the dark" style rides, as one web site once called 'em.
TheWetRabbit 4 years ago
Was that "Jungle Boat" ride thing on Hunt's? Those memories will never fade!
dudejonz 4 years ago
They called it "JungleLand", actually..and, yup, it did indeed once used to be on Hunt's Pier. And, with that ride, as well as a few others on Hunt's and even Morey's Pier what with the "Country Bear Jubilee" attraction, these were basically scaled versions of some of the stuffs that DisneyWorld had been offering up (but with different names for their versions of those rides). Hunt's pier is gone because the members of the Hunt family that owned the pier are gone, and so it got sold.
TheWetRabbit 4 years ago
At the now defunct Hunt's Pier: What was the Keystone Kops ride and the Whacky Shack ride like?
heine71 4 years ago
their not their the old gold nugget was their and functional til 1998 and in 2009 was removed and takin to konobels. its just storage sheds of old rides and old tramcars.
TheFattMarker 2 years ago
THIS is the Wildwood I remember & loved. Hunt's Pier was the best. I must have ridden each of the rides on here 100 times over the years. I have not been to wildwood since around 1993. I'm kind of afraid to go back. I hear it's completely different.If anyone else has more Wildwood video's from the 80's to early 90's post'em already! The 1986 is great too by Meltaylor.
CK80s 4 years ago
great video i loved the mine ride.george the animal steel, use to visit the ride every year.why do i know this? because i'm the guy sleeping with that chessey mustach.now im in utah a long way from the shore
bawhittemore 4 years ago
wow, the Motel burned down a few years ago, and the GOLDEN Nugget has been closed for years, the reason? it has alot of asbestos inside it, when it was built, asbestos was considered ok... great video, thanks!
aWHACKER1 4 years ago
There isn't really another park around like Hunt's Pier, but as for Bill Tracy dark rides like the Whacky Shack, there's a larger model at Waldameer, Erie, PA and a Pirate's Cove walkthrough. Joyland Wichita has the first Whacky Shack built but the park is closed this year. Trimper's in Ocean City, MD has the Haunted House and Pirate's Cove but that park is in danger now, too. It's like what's happening in Wildwood and elsewhere with old motels coming down for million dollar condos.
rwk360 4 years ago
Does any one remember whether the Himalayas were on Hunt's Pier? Around 1965?
bdeluca37799 4 years ago
I remember a ride called the Himalaya!1I loved it! But the one I remember was on Midway in the 80's. I vaguely remember Hunts pier, I was still pretty young when it closed.
SailorV85 4 years ago
Cool video. Thats the way I remember Wildwood. I was there in 86,89 and 90. Have not been there since. Taking my kids this year. Thanks for the memories.
rjo8500 4 years ago
don't expect to see what you see in the video. Hunt's Pier has been gone for almost 20 years now. That video was shot it's last run in 88.
patman846 4 years ago
Well I guess you have to expect some changes after 20 years, but it would of been nice if they refurbished and kept a few of the old rides and sights.
rjo8500 4 years ago
holy crap! the whacky shack was originally THERE?
turnskit2 5 years ago
Thanks for a trip down memory lane. I don't live to far from Wildwood.They might reopen the golden nugget on a different pier.Hunt's Pier was my favorite pier of them all. I loved the golden nugget and keystone kops. I was always afraid of the whacky shack but I went on it anyway with my sister.She would hold my hand.
UPS73 5 years ago
It's a shame the WHACKY SHACK wasn't saved. It was still on the pier in 1995, although closed and blocked off with a wall across the pier. The Nugget was closed that year, too as well as the Log Flume which was taken down 2001 and is now at Arnold's Park in Iowa. I rode the flume for the first and last time in 1998. I was too scared to ride it back in the early 80's but I rode the Nugget and other rides back then. I rode the GN for the first time since 1983 in 1996 when it reopened.
rwk360 5 years ago
The golden Nugget was opened up again when Dinosaur Beach was there, but Db went bankrupt offering 5 year passes for 50 bucks
SailorV85 4 years ago
I visited Hunt's between 1980-1983. I have memories of my father there, he passed away in Mar. 1986, car hit him near home. Vincent Kostek, former pier manager between 1957-1985 passed away last June. He helped build the Flyer and other rides. William "Bud" Hunt former owner until fall 1985 passed away 1991. Most of the Hunt's former properties are now either abandoned or gone including the movie theaters.
rwk360 5 years ago
wow,,,i remember seein' a lot of that stuff,,,i miss the good old days,,,but now get to make new memories for the kids...damn, am i gettin' old...lol
theglue32 5 years ago
i thought it closed like a couple year before that
Mo3194 5 years ago
thanks, the history of wildwood is an interesting one... hunt's pier was bought after dinosuar beach closed in 2005 by Morey... now the tramcars park there, with eventually new rides.
BarryJ398 5 years ago
Dinosaur Beach opened up in 1996 & closed in 1998. The Moreys bought Hunt's Pier in 1999 & thats the way it's been ever since.
patman846 5 years ago
not the wildwood I know
angus94 5 years ago