Post #278626 by GreenWoman on Sat, Jan 13, 2007 11:07 AM

I think this is the right forum for this. %-)

I'm posting this for a friend. Though I don't have any photos and couldn't find anything further on the internet, I thought you would enjoy this story.

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When I was a young lad at the Jersey Shore, one night at Pt. Plaeasant
Beach boardwalk I saw a new amusement that was quite curious. It was
called the Tiki Shack. You turned in the requisite amusement park
tickets. You were ushered inside the Tiki Shack to the strains of the
Hawaiian War Chant. Inside was a dimly lit interior of the shack with
a wooden bench. You sat down and "hula boys or girls" did a little
"authentic' un-authentic dance and made quite a ritual of strapping
you into the bench. The lights began to flicker and frozen co2 smoke
wafted in on the floor. The bench began to rise off the floor as the
"Big Kahuna" danced in the control room. Then the bench gave a
creeling lurch and tilted violently back. The next thing we knew we
were upside down! Amazingly my sister's long hair did not follow
gravity! The bench lurched this way and that, we did dizzying 360
degree loops. Then it was over and the "hula boys or girls" handed us
disposable hot luau towels and we were dizzyingly on our way.

It took me another ride to figure out that the bench other than rising
off the floor remained stationary. It was the room that had spun
around. The Tiki Shack lasted as an amusement for just that one
Summer. But it came back, years later as Martell's Tiki Bar. At
that point any spinning of the room was entirely up to the patrons.
They did it with no assist from the bar other than spirits. :wink:

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Has anyone ever heard of this tiki ride?

GreenWoman, who promised to tell my friend if anyone replied. %-)