Jolly Roger Dream Street Magic Time Buddy Kiddie Ride
Made and manufactured by Jolly Roger (Amusement Rides) Ltd. of Grimoldby (now Skegness), Lincolnshire, U.K. in 2001 under licence from CITV.
Filmed and sighted at The Black Cat Amusements Towyn on August 17th, 2019.
This is the same in that CJ filmed.
DHX Media entirely distributes Dream Street, not me!
A drive from Abergele through Towyn, Kimnel Bay and Rhyl
Filmed in February 2013, showing the Wales tourist coastline in winter.
1950s Coin Operated Rocket Kiddie Ride
Filmed at Eirias Park, Colwyn Bay in 1965.
Released in January 1954, Dan Dare's Spaceship was Edwin Hall & Co.'s fourth ride. It would be one of Hall's most popular rides, manufactured for well over a decade. The original version, Dan Dare's Spaceship or Spaceship Mk III was released on a high box, which was painted with an ornate fairground-style space scene with the words, Fly the Spaceship written across it. To start the booster motors, put 6d in slot and pull control rod slowly back..., read a sign beneath the spaceship. It was painted in red and white stripes with yellow and black wings and tail fins by default, but could be customised to the buyer's requirements.
This was the first British ride to incorporate lights in the form of two flashing red bulbs on rockets either side of the central tail fin as well as smaller red and white bulbs around the tail fin which flashed throughout the duration of the ride. It was also (according to reports of the time) the first British ride to have a push button-activated sound effect. The button, located on top of the joystick (which activated the ride after the coin was inserted), caused a firing sound as well as making lights flash on the front gun. I am still confused as to how this sound effect might have worked, considering the soundtrack was provided by a standard record player inside the base.
Having said that, the reports of the general soundtrack itself are a little confusing. Once the coin was inserted (but while the ride was still stationary), the machine apparently gave off a sound like the soft purring of a motor boat engine. Once the joystick was pulled and the ride set in action, the sound effect gets louder and more exciting. I would love to know more about the technology behind this if anybody has any idea how it might have worked!
The coin slot meter was conveniently located on the side of the ship within easy reach of the rider.
As is typical with Edwin Hall rides, the spaceship was updated many times over the years so there were several different versions. Some versions had the name S.S. Saturn written on the side, others seem to have had no specific name other than a generic Spaceship.
Many thanks to Ian Stones, the original uploader, for allowing me to use this clip. The full cine film can be seen here:
I am currently working on a website about coin operated rides, particularly those made (or at least commonly distributed) in the UK during the 1950s-90s. Please visit If anybody has old photos/video footage that they wouldn't mind sharing with me, please e-mail me at coinoperatedrides@hotmail.com or leave a comment below. I would be eternally grateful. Thank you! :)
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Grand National Front Seat on-ride HD POV Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Ride in the front seat of Grand National at Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, England.
Watch in high definition.
The Great Gildersleeve: Leila Returns / The Waterworks Breaks Down / Halloween Party
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.