Anyone Else Here Ever Ride On the Comet?

[apuszczalowski]

27 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I'm old enough to have been to Crystal Beach many times but never liked coasters, so I never road the Comet. I did do the Wild Mouse once.

 

The family of one of my friends growing up owned Potts Furniture. They had a house on the cliff overlooking the beach. We used to rent ice at Fort Erie Arena (when it was still the old barn) at 1am for a pickup game. Then we'd go to the house and drink till dawn. Good times.

What you do in the privacy of a bedroom with a large iconic Canadian animal is your own business and didn't need to be posted here........

 

Are you refering to the big dune that was right next to the park along Erie Road? I used to hate having to go to those places cause you had to park then walk up a ton of stairs on the one side to go down a bunch more to get to know of those cottages. Some of the people there have little carts on rails that they can use to move their stuff up and down the hill.

 

 

49 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Still made in limited flavours.  There was a dust up a few years back since one entrepreneur apparently had the original recipe, another had the machine from the park that made them.  Arguing over which was the ‘original’ Crystal Beach sucker.  Similar to the Cronfeld / Smeader argument over which was selling the authentic Crystal Beach Loganberry.  The Jankowiak-Hirsch book has a good write up interviewing one of the girls who worked in the sucker stand.

I know a former councillor for the town has a food truck/trailer he would go around with and sell the Logan berry, suckers, and sugar waffles from at other events

[Seasons1992]

13 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

The Comet is currently in Lake George.  It's fun, but it's painful.  The older I've gotten, the more painful it's become and I'm done riding it.  Just a very uncomfortable ride and I may have CTE.

 

It was violent LONG before we got old........

 

I remember taking a ferry from Buffalo up to Cyrstal Beach once. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

1 minute ago, Seasons1992 said:

 

It was violent LONG before we got old........

 

I remember taking a ferry from Buffalo up to Cyrstal Beach once. 

Considering the Canadiana quit running before I was born in 1956, you probably rode the Block Island ferry which was renamed the Americana when Ramsi Tick and associates arranged to bring it to Buffalo and run it in the 80s.

[PromoTheRobot]

20 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

 

Was Mr. Potts really ‘off his rocker’?  ?

 

His kids were.

17 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said:

 

Are you refering to the big dune that was right next to the park along Erie Road? I used to hate having to go to those places cause you had to park then walk up a ton of stairs on the one side to go down a bunch more to get to know of those cottages. Some of the people there have little carts on rails that they can use to move their stuff up and down the hill.

 

Exactly.

[Marv's Neighbor]

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Was that the same Hunt family of the Chiefs!  The ones that crashed the Ag Market?  I never made the distinction!

 

Oh... Somewhere your cheap uncle is proud!  ? ? J/K

Same Hunt's!  Was thinking of that when I saw Mrs Hunt on the SB.

[teef]

14 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

The Comet is currently in Lake George.  It's fun, but it's painful.  The older I've gotten, the more painful it's become and I'm done riding it.  Just a very uncomfortable ride and I may have CTE.

gug...what's the name of that whacked out little amusement park for kids in lake george.  it's the one where someone looked like they designed it on acid.  storybook land or something like that.  we're coming back up to lake george this summer, and someone told me it was turned into something else...a dinosaur park maybe?  it was great for the kids.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

I rode the Comet for the first time this summer, as my son was finally tall enough to ride all the coasters at 6 Flags Lake George.  It was okay, but really tough on the body.  I think just about everyone got off the ride holding their head/back and complaining about pain.  It’s like taking a 5 minute ride in an industrial sized drier ?

[Gugny]

25 minutes ago, teef said:

gug...what's the name of that whacked out little amusement park for kids in lake george.  it's the one where someone looked like they designed it on acid.  storybook land or something like that.  we're coming back up to lake george this summer, and someone told me it was turned into something else...a dinosaur park maybe?  it was great for the kids.

 

LOL.  You're talking about Magic Forest. 

 

https://www.lakegeorge.com/business/lake-george-expedition-park-23689/

 

 

[Seasons1992]

1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Considering the Canadiana quit running before I was born in 1956, you probably rode the Block Island ferry which was renamed the Americana when Ramsi Tick and associates arranged to bring it to Buffalo and run it in the 80s.

 

This is 100% accurate.

[Marv's Neighbor]

18 hours ago, Gray Beard said:

There was a wooden roller coaster at Canobie Lake Park in New Hampshire that I used to enjoy.  According to wiki, it was designed and built by the same people who built the Comet, but it was smaller. 

 

At at this point in my life I think a roller coaster would cause me to lose my equilibrium and have a bad day. 

Fortunately, I don't have that problem, but my wife does.  Keeps me away from the parks now because I don't want to ride alone.

[snafu]

I loved going to Crystal Beach.  I rode the Comet on Closing Day.  Went to the park with two friends.  The line to get on the Comet was at least a two hour wait.  There was NO line/NO waiting to ride backwards -- so that's what we did, twice!!  That backward ride on the Comet was the greatest.  You couldn't tell when you were going to turn right or left, you couldn't tell when you were going up or down.  It was like being rag-dolled for two minutes.  The only thing holding you in was that little bar going across your lap.  There were three of us so one trip I rode alone -- nobody to bounce off, so it was hold on for dear life.  Many years later I learned the Comet was in Lake George.  Rode it again -- facing forward.  I was still an excellent ride.

 

I'm always reminded of that old TV commercial with Mike Ramsay and Mike Foligno arguing about riding forward or backward.

 

 

[plenzmd1]

13 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said:

Fortunately, I don't have that problem, but my wife does.  Keeps me away from the parks now because I don't want to ride alone.

Wife has always said that having babies did something to her internals and she no longer rides coasters...and we were both huge coaster fans , i still am! 

 

That all started with the Comet..with free ride tickets for Loblaws! Along with hockey sticker books!

 

The real question is who else grew up in or near the Falls and used to beg their dad to go to Pages Whistle Pig so you could get one of the rides there. My Pops never, and i do mean NEVER, would pay "those outrages prices for a hotdog..let alone the dollar a ride cost"....so I never once ate at or rode at the Whistle Pig..scarred for life i am!!!!

[snafu]

2 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Loblaws! Along with hockey sticker books!

 

That's a memory!

 

[T&C]

21 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Wife has always said that having babies did something to her internals and she no longer rides coasters...and we were both huge coaster fans , i still am! 

 

That all started with the Comet..with free ride tickets for Loblaws! Along with hockey sticker books!

 

The real question is who else grew up in or near the Falls and used to beg their dad to go to Pages Whistle Pig so you could get one of the rides there. My Pops never, and i do mean NEVER, would pay "those outrages prices for a hotdog..let alone the dollar a ride cost"....so I never once ate at or rode at the Whistle Pig..scarred for life i am!!!!

I didn't grow up near the Falls (Lancaster) but I have never heard of this place... would think I'd at least heard the name but no. Was it like Glen Park?

 

Every year we'd go here for the 4th of July weekend... hit the park, watch the fireworks over the lake, ... they had some place across the road called Fairyland Forest. The Blue Streak is an awesome coaster and is still up and running strong. Not that far a drive from WNY really.

http://www.newconneautlakepark.com/

 

http://www.newconneautlakepark.com/attractions/historic-blue-streak-wooden-roller-coaster.cfm

Edited February 10, 2020 by T&C

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

23 minutes ago, snafu said:

I'm always reminded of that old TV commercial with Mike Ramsay and Mike Foligno arguing about riding forward or backward.

Thank you!  Couldn’t remember the players, and couldn’t find the video spot.

[Gray Beard]

59 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said:

Fortunately, I don't have that problem, but my wife does.  Keeps me away from the parks now because I don't want to ride alone.

My wife never was a fan of fast rides.  My kids used to get me to go on them, but that was many years ago.  Now my daughter won’t go on rides after a bad vertigo incident on the Tower of Terror.  My son still likes to go on them, but we haven’t been together at a big amusement park in many years.  

[Marv's Neighbor]

56 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Wife has always said that having babies did something to her internals and she no longer rides coasters...and we were both huge coaster fans , i still am! 

 

That all started with the Comet..with free ride tickets for Loblaws! Along with hockey sticker books!

 

The real question is who else grew up in or near the Falls and used to beg their dad to go to Pages Whistle Pig so you could get one of the rides there. My Pops never, and i do mean NEVER, would pay "those outrages prices for a hotdog..let alone the dollar a ride cost"....so I never once ate at or rode at the Whistle Pig..scarred for life i am!!!!

Had not thought about Loblaws in a very long time.  Not aware of Pages, but growing up in S Buffalo, didn't get to the Falls area very often, till college.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, plenzmd1 said:

Wife has always said that having babies did something to her internals and she no longer rides coasters...and we were both huge coaster fans , i still am! 

 

That all started with the Comet..with free ride tickets for Loblaws! Along with hockey sticker books!

 

The real question is who else grew up in or near the Falls and used to beg their dad to go to Pages Whistle Pig so you could get one of the rides there. My Pops never, and i do mean NEVER, would pay "those outrages prices for a hotdog..let alone the dollar a ride cost"....so I never once ate at or rode at the Whistle Pig..scarred for life i am!!!!

We had so many of those completed NHL sticker books... Uncles worked in the Loblaw's warehouse... My mother worked in the admin offices.  Get us all the stickers we wanted. They probably all ended up in the garbage. Should check to see if one is laying around.

 

Probably worth something... Was the year Capitals came into League with the Kansas City Scouts.  

 

/smh...

[snafu]

18 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

We had so many of those completed NHL sticker books... Uncles worked in the Loblaw's warehouse... My mother worked in the admin offices.  Get us all the stickers we wanted. They probably all ended up in the garbage. Should check to see if one is laying around.

 

Probably worth something... Was the year Capitals came into League with the Kansas City Scouts.  

 

/smh...

 

If I remember right, I had a book when the Golden Seals were still around.

Long gone now.

 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

7 minutes ago, snafu said:

 

If I remember right, I had a book when the Golden Seals were still around.

Long gone now.

 

 

The Seals (Oakland, then "California") were in that sticker book with the Scouts (Devils) & Caps.  The books I remember were the expansion season of 1974-1975.  Sabres Cup Final year ('75)!  Wish I could find one, mom probably tossed them!  Seals became Cleveland Barons in 1976, then merged w/Northstars....