Revisit The Pike

The Pike in its heyday. Great Color Movies and stories from people who rode the rides and ate in the restaurants. Taken from the Television Series "I Remember Long Beach" For more information visit IrememberLongBeach.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Pike
• Long
• Beach
• Cyclone
• Racer
• Amusement
• roller
• coaster
• rollercoaster

[TL250Rider]

It is now called New Pike Rainbow Pier and Looks like Irvine California it still is nice but too much to park way too much

[DennisMorawski]

The new boring commercial development called the Pike at Rainbow Harbor is not where the Pike was. This is all landfill further out from where the Pike was. The site of the old Pike is now an apartment complex.

[mamavilma]

What Happen where is this now ...????

[DennisMorawski]

The city wanted to redevelop the downtown area which was blighted. They thought the Pike attracted the wrong element (mostly poor people of color) so they tore down the Cyclone Racer which killed the Pike. There is now a large apartment complex on that land.

[clevelandphil]

Laff In the dark was a scary ride that made me jump. I don't remember the dead man though.

[DennisMorawski]

Elmer McCurdy was painted orange so he looked like one of the many scary monsters hanging in the Laff-in-the-Dark.

[mariothepookster]

Growing up in Los Angeles, I had a blast at the Pike when it was called, "NuPike". Long Beach was once naval port/dry dock for the US Navy. So, there were always a lot of young sailors there looking for "broads" and maybe a tattoo since the park had a real mid-way with several tattoo parlors, & shooting galleries. The roller coaster ("The Cyclone Racer") was a blast. Kind of scary at night since it was dark, over the water, & you lost your perspective. Now it's totally homogenized and boring.

[SeattleLA]

@mujerado yes

[Sarasdad91]

Back when I was a kid, I used to take `10 dollars with me to the Pike in long beach. I would ride and RTD bus for 5 cents from South Gate and at that time the RTD Bus depot was at the Breakers building on Ocean BLVD and I'd buy a return ticket to put in my little wallet. I was 12 years old then.I would get an all day pass to the Pike and eat as much as I wanted for that 10 bucks. I remember the Mouse and the Cyclone, mini roller coasters. I sure miss those days.

[darqueangels]

So many memories. We'd go there & let the sailors chase us nearly every weekend. Riding the Cyclone, the Wild Mouse... hanging out in the arcade trying to beat that damn Claw. Never did...thank you so much for bringing these memories back. Damn good times! I wonder if anyone else cried while watching this? I can't thank you enough for this gift. xx

[mujerado]

I used to stay summers with my Grandmother who lived in Redondo Beach, and a couple of times we went to the Pike in LB. I remember the Laff-in-the-Dark.

Wasn't there a city park right near it?

[Dickiluv]

We went to the Pike a lot as well as the Venice Pier. My dad took his nephew on the Cyclone Racer at the Long Beach Pike and his nephew was so scared that he swallowed his little cigar. Thanks for taking me back to this wonderful time.

[CherzieBear]

Mother went to The Pike with her sister via the red car or back in the day & she said they had a lovely innocent evening of riding the rides with the sailors. I went as a teen & over the years, it seemed like the ocean kept moving further back from the roller coaster. Progress I suppose. It seems like it was in the 80's my husband & I went there & took a number of B+W photos of the nearly deserted amusement park.  Most memorial-the one of me sitting on the carousel looking sad for past days.

[swirlguy]

Correction, though I am on as swirlguy...used for my son's e-mail...I am a female, and excuse my spelling of remember, I guess I could not remember how to spell it! Ha!

[swirlguy]

Wow...I used to go as a 16yr. old from Carson and meet my girlfriend from Hollywood. We would wait for the dance to open at a little greasy spoon there..can't remeber the name...what memories and fun we would have...there was about 1 girl to about 5 guys, mostly sailors, in fact all sailors as I remember....it was awesome to have 3 guys ask me to dance at once! Oh happy days! Thanks for the video and music! Oh, by the way I am now 58.