Crystal Beach's Magic Palace

[BrownStreak]

Something I read on another post made me think of this great old walk through fun house from the much missed Crystal Beach! We used to take the boat over to Crystal Beach when I was younger (I am only 33- they brought boat service back in the 80's). Sure it was quicker to drive but arriving by boat was awsome!

 

Anyways, back to the point...the fun house had several dark "mazes," fun-house mirrors, a few slides, and pathways with airhoses that shot up at you. I didn't know for the longest time that some hidden op controlled the air!

 

Back before my time it was called the Magic Carpet because according to my parents at the end you entered a small room with a bench made out of rollers and sat on it. The bench then flattened out and you slid down it onto a slanted conveyor covered with carpeting and you rode that down to the end. This sounds really cool and I was wondering if anyone on here is old enough to remeber that?

 

More importantly, does anyone have pictures? I have two calenders from I think 2000 and 2001 that have about 30 pictures of the old park in them but none of this fun house.

 

Also let me just say that I still miss the Giant aka the Yellow Coaster- it was my first real coaster and I found out recently that before it closed in 1989 it was the oldest side-friction "train" coaster in North America.

[ktglads]

Since I was 9 when the park closed, I remember some vague and wierd things about Crystal Beach. I remember the airjets and mirrors in the fun house. Mostly it is from the same position where the building was a U and you could see from one side to another.

 

The oddest thing I remember is going to the beach part one day and there were tons of dead fish all washed ashore. I don't know why they were there or why my parents would take us to the beach when it was covered in fish, but I do remember that as well.

[BrownStreak]

I have found a picutre of the Magic Palace but it is not a very good one. I also found an old picture of the Canadiana. When I was in high school I volunteered in an effort to restore the boat but funding ran out.

Obviously you can't tell but the spires were vibrant colors- or being that it was in Canada I guess it would be colours

[pianojohn]

Hmm....I remember walking through that during the ACE Convention in 1984, but to be honest, I don't remember much about it!

 

I DO remember that the water slides were terrible! About halfway down, the water would stop and you would start freaking out waiting for the person behind you to slam into you! Yeah, good times!

[niiicolaaah]

I don't remember it (I was 6 when the park closed) but I do remember my first "big" coaster was Giant Coaster the year the park closed! I got to ride between my parents! lol.

 

I also remember being terrified of Laff-in-the-Dark, and drooling at Comet begging my parents to ride. Of course, I wasn't tall enough.

[ECZenith]

There's a travelling fun house run by Reithoffer Shows that I see at the Brockton Fair (MA) every year that has this same last trick of dropping visitors onto a rolling slide, I had no idea it existed in such an older fun house, it's really a neat trick!