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Ocean City, Maryland (Trimper's amusement rides). Ocean City's boardwalk has an old amusement park, bumper cars, old fashioned skee ball & carnival games etc.
I would say Seabreeze in Rochester NY would qualify. It's not right on the beach but you get great views of Lake Ontario from the tops of most of the rides.
Seabreeze is also home to the Jack Rabbit roller coaster. At its opening in 1920, it was the fastest roller coaster in the world. The Jack Rabbit is the fourth oldest operating roller coaster in the worldand the second oldest in the USA. The oldest, Leap-The-Dips in Altoona PA, was closed from 1985 to 1999, making The Jack Rabbit the oldest continuously operating coaster in the country.
The beach became a pit in the 70s and they tore everything down. Whole beach was closed from 1978-1993...it was that bad. Pretty decent now but the park is gone and never coming back.
The quasiblizzard of 1978 did it in. I had not been to Revere Beach since the 1960s and have no other frame of reference for it. The Boston Globe archive photos of it during that time match my memories. I thought it was seedy even back then.
Seaside -- has 2 piers with rides
Point Pleasant
Ocean City NJ
Long Beach Island has Fantasy Island Amusement Park, plus a water park
Atlantic City, Steel pier
Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, grew to be an international monster. But its roots were a local beach side park. I'm old enough to remember in the 80s when it was still a regional park. Then it built the Magnum and it really blew up from there.
Detroit's version of a "coney island" used to be Boblo Island which was part of Ontario. The amusement park was in operation from 1898 to 1993.. People would have to board a large boat carrying 2500 people at a time to get to it. It is now abandoned and has become a housing development.
Detroit's version of a "coney island" used to be Boblo Island which was part of Ontario. The amusement park was in operation from 1898 to 1993.. People would have to board a large boat carrying 2500 people at a time to get to it. It is now abandoned and has become a housing development.
Cedar Point probably killed Boblo Island. I now only go to Cedar Point every couple years. But in the 90s me and my buddies got season passes (back then it was like $90 or the price of two single day passes). They would have the DJs on the rides that had an hour plus long line. They would shoot out "is Cleveland in the house" and it would be a good response. Then they would shout "is Detroit in the house" and it would go nuts, lol. At least in the 90s, Cedar Point was more Michigan (Cleveland did still have Geauga Lake at that time, though).
Detroit's version of a "coney island" used to be Boblo Island which was part of Ontario. The amusement park was in operation from 1898 to 1993.. People would have to board a large boat carrying 2500 people at a time to get to it. It is now abandoned and has become a housing development.
Btw, the new Bablo Boat was the Miller Ferry to Put-in-Bay. But cats from Detroit (and to a lesser extent Cleveland) would get drunk and start scrapping and they now have shut that down, lol.
I'd say Wildwood wins in terms of having more (Adventure, Morey's and Surfside all lie on piers across from sand. I always see it as Atlantic City Jr, with numerous arcades on the boardwalk with many having a "casino" moniker (though Gateway 26 does have poker tournaments).
Atlantic City once had a go-kart track on Central Pier.
In addition to Trimper's, Ocean City MD also has nearby Jolly Roger at the Pier, which for many decades was simply known as Pier Rides, and the ferris wheel is easily seen from much of the boardwalk. Like Wildwood, it sits on a wide part of the beach. It's not quite as old as Trimper's (over a century old), but still has that classic seaside beach atmosphere. There's also Jolly Roger's main amusement park on the highway uptown, but it's designed more like a modern theme park that happens to contain several go-kart tracks in addition to the usual midway rides.
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware has Funland right on the boardwalk, but it isn't pierside and not as historic as some of the others, even though many rides there date from the 1960s.
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