Really cool!! Thanks for posting.
Men and young men/boys wearing suits and ties, women/young ladies wearing dresses and scarves.
And, no neck support, on the roller coaster. That one young man certainly enjoyed “holding on” to the young lady, on the coaster!
Excellent quality footage!!
That was fun for me-—and I was born 4 months later.
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Thought you might enjoy this footage!
Used to go there with my paper route money (all $12) and have the time of my life.
How did he make the girl disappear?
Thanks, that was moving. Just normal people on film, eating sandwiches and waffle cones. No script, other than the show barker and magician. Soothing in a way somehow.
I miss America that I never saw in person. I am not happy with what is now America.
This is a great YT account.
I particularly like the really old films which are slowed down so the speed is more natural and sound is added. You get a strange surreal feeling watching them - as if it feels more real.
It’s hard to appreciate sometimes that every person in a vintage film or photo was a living, breathing person. As real as you are.
That sounds obvious, and you already know it intellectually, but sometimes the strange, sped-up quality of really old pre-1920 films (or old photos) gives you a weird sense of distance or unreality.
Oh man, I remember that. Only went once or twice despite growing up there. The world’s largest salt water pool. Never quite liked it as much as the Jersey shore and the boardwalks @ Atlantic City or Ocean City, but which were a bit more distant. Usually Pal Park was very crowded and I always thought it was kind of run down (even back in the 60’s) while certainly the boardwalks on the Jersey shore could be kind of run down, there was more of a charm to them. You at least got the ocean breeze there.
Where are the fat middle-aged guys with the t-shirts and cargo shorts?
Bump.
-PJ
Wow. Boys with suit and ties, girls in dresses.
Used to go there quite a bit on date nights,in the late 50’s early 60’s. They had a band shell where the early rockers used to perform. Great times and cotton candy.
MAGA
Remember the song “Palisades Park” that was popular in the early 60s?
I recall Palisades Park in the 50s/60s right on the NJ side of the Hudson ‘back in the day.’ My memory such as it is, places it below the GW bridge.
My dad was an attorney for the park. That meant we got plenty of passes to visit. I never did swim in the pool but I did finally get up the nerve to ride the Cyclone. I wish my grandchildren had such a park to visit.
Thanks for posting - that was great! Amazing to see everyone all dressed up at Palisades Park! We used to go there in the ‘60s and I remember the song so well.