Comments on: Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Cyclone Racer, The Pike, Long Beach, 1956 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/01/06/cyclone-racer/ 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 08:01:41 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Denny http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/01/06/cyclone-racer/#comment-253796 Denny Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:57:04 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/01/06/cyclone-racer/#comment-253796 Nostalgic picture for me. I used to ride that thing during the mid 60′s. It was demolished a week after Labor Day 1968.

]]> By: Scott Mercer http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/01/06/cyclone-racer/#comment-987 Scott Mercer Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:22:31 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/01/06/cyclone-racer/#comment-987 Well, a bit of The Pike remains.

Loof’s Lite-A-Line was the last remaining concession at The Pike. It operated until 1998 (?) or so, and then was moved to Long Beach blvd. I forget the address. It’s a carnival game where you sit at a table and roll balls down a ramp, where they roll into a grid of holes. You’re trying to get them all in a row. If you do, you win a prize.

They used to have these things in Times Square too, even up until when I was a kid in the 1970′s. I went to them a number of times.

If you want to see some good footage of The Pike as it neared its tatty end (circa 1962), pick up a DVD of Ray Dennis Steckler’s THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES, now available. Lots of footage of The Cyclone Racer and the entire Pike in all its seedy glory.

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