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circa 1961 Lincoln Park and Mountain Park cars featured
a native warrior's mask on the front in keeping with both
rides' original jungle theme. The cars were painted and
retrofitted with restraints for their service in Nightmare
Manor. |
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The
transportation hardware from the two double-decker dark
rides were a perfect fit for Nightmare Manor, which like
the former Lincoln Park and Mountain Park rides, had a
brief trek over the balcony.
According to Ed Petrill, extra track and cars were kept
as replacements, in storage near the Manor building. |
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Photo
by Jay Ducharme
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Ed
recalls that Gary Sware and his daughter produced many
of the original stunts.
When Bob Bennett purchased Nightmare Manor years later,
he commissioned Mechanical Displays, Inc. of Brooklyn,
New York to bring in some new "guests."
Photos:
Mechanical Displays, Inc. |
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Mechanical Displays owner Lou Nasti installed a number
of gruesome gadgets including its famous Butcher Shop
scene in which a screaming, vomiting victim is dismembered
in a torture chamber filled with severed limbs. Among
the other gags were a graveyard scene, a howling werewolf
and a menacing devil's head which belched out compressed
air. |
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"The head was all fiberglas." Recalls Nasti. "It would
roar, then an air hose would hit riders. Just enough to
scare them, not to hurt them. It was at the end of the
course, so people were coming off the ride scared. It
was a real selling point for getting people back in."
Photos:
Mechanical Displays, Inc. |
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