Post by Robert on Apr 29, 2009 20:12:57 GMT -5
I was wondering what Tracy rides had the cuckoo whacky clock, knit wit and sawmill? It seems the Haunted House is the only one left with those three stunts. The former Fright Zone in Ohio (West View's Haunted House rebuilt as 1 level in 1980) had the sawmill, but no knit wit or clock. Hunt's Pier's Whacky Shack had all three. So does the Haunted House in OC, MD. Bothwere built in 1964. (West View's Haunted House was built 1963) It seems his rides post 1965 didn't include those three stunts. Hunt's Whacky Shack (Hunt's Horror 1989 and up) was SBNO in 1995, while the Catanoso brothers who just got the pier decided what to do with the pier. The front part was open with kiddie rides with a white wood wall across the pier blocking access to the remaining 4 Hunt's rides, Whacky Shack-Golden Nugget-Log Flume-Rapids. The pier reopened in 1996 as Dinosaur Beach with the other three Hunt's rides restored and reopened. It closed Sept 1998. The Whacky Shack was removed from the pier early 1996. Now, the Nugget is razed. But, the props are saved and some will be going into Morey's dark rides, and some to Wildwood Boyer Museum. Track and trains going to Knoebels for a new dark ride. I wonder if any of the Hunt's Whacky Shack stunts were saved? The clock, knit wit, sawmill? A while back some one from a Wildwood site told me that the props were used for a haunted hay ride in the fall on the beach, and put into storage in Wildwood somewhere since the hay ride no longer operates. Ralph Grassi of Funchase got the large Whacky Shack sculpture that hung in the Ocean Theatre across from Hunt's Pier it was sitting outside propped up on the wall of a building at the old Hunt's lot off of Rt. 9 north of Cold Spring Village, few miles south of Rio Grande next to a school. That lot was like a graveyard for Hunt's stuff that was removed from the pier.