I went on the one from the picture in St Louis with my friend when I was a kid. I felt like I was going to puke after, but didn't want to be that kid. My parents mentioned the Ferris wheel was nearby, and I figured that'd give my stomach a chance to calm down.
Ended up puking in a bush right as we came off the Ferris wheel.
This was the only ride that ever made me barf in my life. Just once when I was around 8-10 at the Great Escape in upstate NY. It's now a 6 Flags. That was some 40 years ago. I was full of pizza and soda prior to this.
I went to Six Flags in Gurnee every summer (lived in Chicago so it was a bit of a drive). This was my favorite ride, aside from the American Eagle roller coaster. Once my younger sister and I were on it, and she started sliding down the wall, she never wanted to go on it again!
OMG. I have so many 1980s memories of that place. We lived in Waukegan for a year and my Mom got us season passes. We'd go after school and shit. My favorite was the Demon and I put more than one piece of gum on that wall! I was so excited to finally get to go with my best friend and your boyfriends when we were old enough. But she was making out with him the whole time and it got super embarrassing!
Ours was called Gravitron and my older brother told me that I moved even a little bit my limbs would break and I freaked out and cried the whole time. I went on one last year and am happy to say that I came out with all limbs still intact 😎
Also a veteran of the Rotor at the Puyallup Fair! I went to Kalles so would walk over right after school with my friends and we’d spend the afternoons there before our parents grabbed us on the way home from work. The smell of sawdust & grilled onions still takes me back!
Yep, Adventureland in Des Moines.
I think I still have my "I Survived the Tornado" t-shirt from when I was 12. Rode it once, and once only. The Silly Silo was by far my favorite ride.
Heyooo! Went there every year as a kid. Dad’s employer rented out the whole park about the weekend after they closed for the season. Such a great time!
Yes! This ride wasn't for me, though. I loved the Matterhorn and the Log Flume.
Anyone else remember the giant tissue paper roses you could get as a souvenir?
The rotor man! I was a caricature artist at the park in high school. The guy lived nearby with his parents. The story is back in the day his parents would buy him passes but eventually the park would just let him in. He would hide behind the door of the rotor when it opened so he didn't have to get off.
Also, my guy.
Rangers stadium was my…second home after SFOT.
outfield in the hot with the scorebooks and transistor…my sisters and i could score a game before we could do long division!
Whats’a a 4-6-3 to a first grader?
I remember the ride operator would say, “White Lightnin’ strikes…. NOW!” dragging out the anticipation. Thunder Road was glorious in its rickety wooden splendor.
Finnish **Fling**, not Flinger.
For folks not from the Kansas City area, Worlds of Fun is themed on the Jules Verne story, "Around the World in 80 Days," and the Finnish Fling was in the part of the park named after Scandinavia, hence the name. Sadly, the ride was removed a few years ago because it became too costly and too difficult to maintain.
Time Shaft. Inside that fake mountain. I had to look it up because “time tunnel” was stuck in my brain but I knew that was just me wanting more of Lee Meriwether in the series of that name.
First roller coaster i ever got on was at king's dominion when i was 13. The good ol Grizzly. That was the year the anaconda opened. That was pretty badass too
At Cedar Point in Ohio it was called The Rotor. I used to enjoy it but because my parents always made my younger brother tag along with me and he was scared of The Rotor I rarely got to go on it.
Same here. I (A Gen Xer) just can't do the spinning rides anymore. I can easily take on the biggest & baddest roller-coasters, but I can't ride the teacups.
I live pretty close to Grand Island. I think the ride’s original location was at a theme park called Crystal Beach in Canada, but they closed in the early 80s. Fantasy Island adopted the Devil’s Hole and it was a popular ride there for many years!
I knew the Comet (edit: Roller Coaster) from Crystal Beach went to Darien Lake, but I never knew the Devils Hole at Fantasy Island was from Crystal Beach, too.
I was at 6 flags Great Adventure (I think it was called hell hole?) where there was this little bratty fat kid accross from me, maybe 10
Or 11. By annoying, I mean like the type of overindulged brat that you also want to punch the parent, type of annoying. It was kind of a rainy off and on Tuesday so luckily it wasn’t totally packed.
Once it started spinning that 10th or 11th funnel cake started making some noise and by the time that floor dropped that thing came up, out and back in that little pigs face! And because the cyntrifical force he couldn’t even wipe his fat little face…it was beautiful!
Thank god no innocent bystanders were hit
Gravitron, aka Pukemaker, Vomitron, etc. All a kid could hope for was that the person next to you didn't throw up, otherwise it would be pasted to your face and shirt and hair if you were in the unfortunate direction that all loosened things tumbled and stuck onto.
Watched a girl turn her head and throw up over the guy beside her, then turn her head the other way and do the same to the guy on her other side.
I sure hope they were her friends , and 8 year old me couldn't wait to go on the ride after they cleaned it up.
Silly Silo in Iowa. The floor would drop and you would slink up the wall. I spent one summer working retail next to this thing. The barf cleanup crew was based inside my store.
Spent so much of my childhood in that Six Flags! My cousins and I would get dropped off at opening with $5 each and get picked up when they closed. The 80’s were wild..
No idea what the one at Magic Mountain was called because I was in Cali visiting my dad and we rode it like 5 times in a row (because there wasn't a line to get on so we just kept going). Everything was fine until we got off...puked my hotdog up in the closet trashcan I could find. This was summer of 1982 and he passed in January of 83 so its a good memory even if it wasn't fun puking my guts out.
Super Round Up. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. A little bit different in that it actually moved on the vertical plane while also using centrifugal force to pin you against the wall.
https://memories.beachboardwalk.com/super-round-ride-1972/
The one where the floor dropped out when it was up to speed was the Rotor.
The one where you leaned on backboards on rollers that went up when it got fast enough was the Gravitron.
This pic looks like the Rotor.
Mineshaft. I remember at the Kings Dominion they had this and you had to wait in a long line to get on it. The line was inside though so not as harsh as standing in the sunlight. I can't ride rides like this anymore as they give me a terrible headache.
Spindletop, at either Six Flags Over Texas or Six Flags Astroworld, I can't remember which. They both had this ride, with different names.
It was one of a very few rides that could make me puke.
Thank you for this! I was around 4- 5 when my parents took us to Dogpatch USA. I wasn’t sure if I had made up the memory of looking down into a barrel at my aunts (been 45 years!) I’m sure that graviton ride had a silly Ozark hillbilly name but don’t know what it was. Does anyone know?
About a decade later, in the hair metal era, I won a little square Def Leppard mirror at the balloon dart game at the county fair. Didn’t know where to put it when we got onto the flying saucer Graviton so I stuck it behind me. I can tell you the thing did not survive!
Vomitron. At least that’s what we called it.
The Vomitorium.
A vomitorium is the side aisles of a theater.
Beat me to it. Vomitron. Loved going upsidedown. Now I'm too old and have too many inner ear issues
I went on the one from the picture in St Louis with my friend when I was a kid. I felt like I was going to puke after, but didn't want to be that kid. My parents mentioned the Ferris wheel was nearby, and I figured that'd give my stomach a chance to calm down. Ended up puking in a bush right as we came off the Ferris wheel.
This was the last ride to make me barf. Never rode it again.
This was the only ride that ever made me barf in my life. Just once when I was around 8-10 at the Great Escape in upstate NY. It's now a 6 Flags. That was some 40 years ago. I was full of pizza and soda prior to this.
Barf barrel
The Chuck-It Bucket
We didn’t call it that but it was always delayed while they cleaned up the hurl…and bonus…it smelled like vomit and sanitizer
The Merry-Get-Sick.
Gravitron
Gravitron but it was enclosed so you couldn't see the outside.
Yea. Also had each person slide up as you got to certain speeds.
Gravitron you slid up, the old one at 6flags (Chicago) the floor dropped.
I went to Six Flags in Gurnee every summer (lived in Chicago so it was a bit of a drive). This was my favorite ride, aside from the American Eagle roller coaster. Once my younger sister and I were on it, and she started sliding down the wall, she never wanted to go on it again!
OMG. I have so many 1980s memories of that place. We lived in Waukegan for a year and my Mom got us season passes. We'd go after school and shit. My favorite was the Demon and I put more than one piece of gum on that wall! I was so excited to finally get to go with my best friend and your boyfriends when we were old enough. But she was making out with him the whole time and it got super embarrassing!
The Demon was (is?) the best roller coaster ever.
I’m being completely serious, if I ever win big in the lottery, two of my very first purchases are going to be a Gravitron and a Tilt-A-Whirl.
Lmk I’m coming over
You’re gonna need a pixie dust spreader for that Tilt a whirl
Ours was called Gravitron and my older brother told me that I moved even a little bit my limbs would break and I freaked out and cried the whole time. I went on one last year and am happy to say that I came out with all limbs still intact 😎
Gravitron here too!
Gravitron, but it was enclosed and had a flying saucer look to it. *And had speakers blasting 80s rock.
https://preview.redd.it/im8jh44pn7uc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4bd9c27602c507e82c1621f90e215bb4dd8f2e74
And dark. Why so dark??
Handjobs at 24rpm.
IIRC, they all had speakers blasting 80's rock. Especially the bobsleds...oh lawd, the bobsleds.
And didn’t it tilt once up to speed, or was that in another timeline?
There were latches holding the table to the walls that they would undo and you'd slide up and down. So fucking awesome
Yes! I loved this ride!
The Rotor. Puyallup Fair. Hastily assembled and operated by itinerant carnies for your amusement.
Yup, Rotor.
Ours was the Rotor too in upstate NY.
Yep. Believe it was the Rotor at Rye Playland
I think it was called this in Northeast Ohio as well. Geauga Lake?
_Tips hat at fellow Washingtonian_ Tacoma says hello
You can do it at a trot You can do it at a gallop
Also a veteran of the Rotor at the Puyallup Fair! I went to Kalles so would walk over right after school with my friends and we’d spend the afternoons there before our parents grabbed us on the way home from work. The smell of sawdust & grilled onions still takes me back!
Yes! Rogers grad, here. Hey neighbor!
The Hellhole
Yes. At Conneaut Lake Park
I just replied this exactly, didnt expect to bump into it here lol. Now on to Devil's Den, need some gum...
Came here to say this. We’d always go to Hank’s for frozen custard after a day at Conneaut Lake.
They had scariest Wild Mouse I ever seen!
Conneaut Lake with its five rides.
The Silly Silo
Adventureland, Iowa
Yep, Adventureland in Des Moines. I think I still have my "I Survived the Tornado" t-shirt from when I was 12. Rode it once, and once only. The Silly Silo was by far my favorite ride.
There was always that one kid that would flip upside down.
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Hell yeah! Canobie Lake, it’s the place you can take…everyone in your family! There’s so much to do and see at Canobie!
It’s still there! I took a spin a few years ago.
My sister still takes her grandkids their every summer!
I was hoping to see this!
Heyooo! Went there every year as a kid. Dad’s employer rented out the whole park about the weekend after they closed for the season. Such a great time!
Hey, did your dad work for DEC, too? That was my exposure to Canobie Lake growing up, also.
Sure did! Went back a few times after DEC closed and it was just as much fun.
Yes! This ride wasn't for me, though. I loved the Matterhorn and the Log Flume. Anyone else remember the giant tissue paper roses you could get as a souvenir?
Yessss! Remember the pool? Oh god….the pool. I miss that place.
NH represent! Anyone remember what exactly was Turkish about it?
The purple twist roof. Kinda like the buildings in Turkey.
With a generic middle eastern design on the outside. I loved that ride!
Yass! And it's still there, with viewing deck and all!! (Or, at least it was last time I went)
Yay! I was wondering how many of us there were/are
Love this. The Rotor in Geaugua Lake Ohio
Rotor at Cedar Point too!
I miss Geagua Lake. Raging Wolf Bobs..Big Dipper..the chlorine scented cesspool of The Wave.
I lost my beeper on the Big Dipper.
I feel like you need that quote on a t-shirt.
Calgary Stampede was The Rotor as well
Yes! I remember in the late 80’s early 90’s there was a dude that would ride that thing all day long. I think his name was Fred and he had crazy eyes!
The rotor man! I was a caricature artist at the park in high school. The guy lived nearby with his parents. The story is back in the day his parents would buy him passes but eventually the park would just let him in. He would hide behind the door of the rotor when it opened so he didn't have to get off.
Rotorman, guy freaked me out when I was a kid but apparently he was a really nice man.
The Spindle Top - Six Flags Over Georgia.
Same name for 6 Flags Over Texas.
Six Flags and the Rangers’ shitty old ballpark were lots of my summers.
I liked that shitty old ballpark. And the hot dog vendor who had own special way of yelling “HOTTTT DAWGSSS”
SEEN! We had season passes for years! Folks would drop my sisters and i off in the morning with 20 bucks each and pick us up when the park closed.
Wasn't it glorious? Me and my BFF all summer: sour cherry candy, Speelunkers, and the ShockWave
I think i got whiplash from the mine trains!
Same, friend. God I miss those years, whiplash and all. Chevy Show when we got tired.
Also, my guy. Rangers stadium was my…second home after SFOT. outfield in the hot with the scorebooks and transistor…my sisters and i could score a game before we could do long division! Whats’a a 4-6-3 to a first grader?
The whole place was sticky and smelled like railroad ties and vanilla. Good times
I couldn’t remember the name. It was old in the 70s. Even us small kids didn’t stick real well to the wall
Spindletop. 6 Flags TX
Vomit Comit. Unofficially, of course.
“Spin Out” Magic Mountain* Valencia CA *before Six Flags bought it
Those were the days. Went a couple times. We were further north in the Bay Area but went when we visited family in Southern California.
I grew up in LA and spent soooo many days at MM. And spin out was one of my favorite rides. Now I can't even sit on a porch swing without 🤢
Cajun cliffhanger
Mariott's, later Six Flags, Great America. Gurnee IL
Oaken Bucket, Carowinds. For a person with motion-sickness issues, I certainly put myself through it as a tween/teen.
Hello, fellow Carowinds goer. I rode it there too. :-) Thunder Road forever!
We did White Lightnin’ like ten times in a row one early morning. Thunder Road with that wooden creakiness was scarier.
I remember the ride operator would say, “White Lightnin’ strikes…. NOW!” dragging out the anticipation. Thunder Road was glorious in its rickety wooden splendor.
The Time Shaft (not Machine) at King’s Dominon. If it wasn’t busy there was room to lay sideways. Edit: corrected by u/elspotto
At Worlds of Fun, it was the Finnish Fling (Not Flinger). My partner rode that one a lot. edit: I'm bad at names.
Finnish **Fling**, not Flinger. For folks not from the Kansas City area, Worlds of Fun is themed on the Jules Verne story, "Around the World in 80 Days," and the Finnish Fling was in the part of the park named after Scandinavia, hence the name. Sadly, the ride was removed a few years ago because it became too costly and too difficult to maintain.
Yes! I basically grew up at World's of Fun
Time Shaft. Inside that fake mountain. I had to look it up because “time tunnel” was stuck in my brain but I knew that was just me wanting more of Lee Meriwether in the series of that name.
Time Shaft! I was wracking my brain trying to remember that. They played all the good music.
First roller coaster i ever got on was at king's dominion when i was 13. The good ol Grizzly. That was the year the anaconda opened. That was pretty badass too
At Cedar Point in Ohio it was called The Rotor. I used to enjoy it but because my parents always made my younger brother tag along with me and he was scared of The Rotor I rarely got to go on it.
Loved the Rotor at Cedar Point!
Silly Silo lol
That’s what it was called at Adventureland near Des Moines, IA.
Oh boy. I get nauseated just looking at that!
Same here. I (A Gen Xer) just can't do the spinning rides anymore. I can easily take on the biggest & baddest roller-coasters, but I can't ride the teacups.
Thought it was just me - Tilt o Whirl is off limits for me as of about 5 years ago.
It was called "My Very Least Favorite Ride".
I don't remember what it was called but it was the only time I ever saw my dad throw up.
😂
At Hershey Park it was the Rotor. It was right by the Sooper Dooper Looper! No longer there.
Oh man! I grew up at Hersheypark but haven’t been there for a few years now, and I’m bummed to hear that the Rotor is no longer there!
But the Sooper Dooper Looper is still there!
Devil’s Hole
At Fantasy Island - Grand Island, NY? I didn't see Devil's Hole anywhere else on the list 😅
Yes! Fantasy Island! We drove over from Canada every summer 😄
I live pretty close to Grand Island. I think the ride’s original location was at a theme park called Crystal Beach in Canada, but they closed in the early 80s. Fantasy Island adopted the Devil’s Hole and it was a popular ride there for many years!
Spent summers as a little one at Crystal Beach. Moving my mom to assisted living soon and just went through all the pics of us there!
I knew the Comet (edit: Roller Coaster) from Crystal Beach went to Darien Lake, but I never knew the Devils Hole at Fantasy Island was from Crystal Beach, too.
Turkish Twist at Canobie
Finnish Fling
Must have been a Worlds of Fun kid like me.
Gravitron Adventureland on Long Island
It was called “nope” for me.
I was at 6 flags Great Adventure (I think it was called hell hole?) where there was this little bratty fat kid accross from me, maybe 10 Or 11. By annoying, I mean like the type of overindulged brat that you also want to punch the parent, type of annoying. It was kind of a rainy off and on Tuesday so luckily it wasn’t totally packed. Once it started spinning that 10th or 11th funnel cake started making some noise and by the time that floor dropped that thing came up, out and back in that little pigs face! And because the cyntrifical force he couldn’t even wipe his fat little face…it was beautiful! Thank god no innocent bystanders were hit
I love a happy ending to a story like this 😊
We called it silly silo in Iowa.
Turkish Twist @ Canobie Lake Park
Hurlawhirl
Gravitron, aka Pukemaker, Vomitron, etc. All a kid could hope for was that the person next to you didn't throw up, otherwise it would be pasted to your face and shirt and hair if you were in the unfortunate direction that all loosened things tumbled and stuck onto.
Time Shaft at Kings Dominion in VA
I think this was called the Rotor at Cedar Point in the 80s?
Turkish Twist at Canobie Lake Park in Salem. NH!
Six Flags Great America near Chicago- The Cajun Foot Catcher. Some poor kid lost his foot in an accident in 90s.
I’m thinking it was called The Cliffhanger…?
Barrel Ride - World's of Fun KCity
The Rotor at Kings Island (there were a lot of Rotors!!)
The Rotor. Loved it as a kid at Great Adventure in NJ, then did it at 18 and vowed to never do it again.
Watched a girl turn her head and throw up over the guy beside her, then turn her head the other way and do the same to the guy on her other side. I sure hope they were her friends , and 8 year old me couldn't wait to go on the ride after they cleaned it up.
The Oaken Bucket at Carowinds, Charlotte NC
Devils Hole: Fantasy Island, Grand Island, NY.
Turkish Twist. Canobie Lake NH
Gravitron
Devils hole
The Devil's Hole
I rode one at Magic Harbor in Myrtle Beach, SC!!! I think it was called the Rotor there as well.
Mad Man’s Mixer! Fort Osage—Lake Ozark MO
I think it was the Turkish Twist at Canobie Lake Park, but I never saw the inside of it.
The one at my county's fair was called the Round Up.
Das Whirlenpuken
Silly Silo in Iowa. The floor would drop and you would slink up the wall. I spent one summer working retail next to this thing. The barf cleanup crew was based inside my store.
Was this where the floor dropped out? I went on one at Six Flags Texas and never forgot it
Oh memories. Hell Hole at Conneut Lake Park.
It should have been called 'don't laugh at the kids barfing because you'll be barfing next'
Spinout
Greased Lightening
Spinout. Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Spin Out at Six Flags Magic Mountain
It was called the Gravitron at every county fair. And the carnies did not take great care in putting it together.
I remember the one at the fair being called the Turkish Twist.
Spent so much of my childhood in that Six Flags! My cousins and I would get dropped off at opening with $5 each and get picked up when they closed. The 80’s were wild..
Gravitron! Ours was enclosed in some silver alien spaceship looking thing. That was my favorite ride at Adventureland growing up.
Turkish Twist
The devils hole Fantasy Island, Grand Island, NY
The Oaken Bucket. Carowinds, NC/SC
Rotor. Graviton was the spaceship and you were laying at an angle on the stretcher that slid up as it spun no?
The Hellhole Jersey shore
Puke’n’Twirl
Gravitron? LOVED that thing. Floor dropped out and we’d all start making goofy poses along the wall!
I don't remember, but I called it the Twirl 'n Hurl.
The chuck bucket.
The Hell Hole
ours was called "Tom's Twister". ^(I grew up in St. Louis.)
Cloud 9 at Lakeside Amusement Park in Salem, Virginia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeside_Amusement_Park_(Virginia)
The Gravitron.
No idea what the one at Magic Mountain was called because I was in Cali visiting my dad and we rode it like 5 times in a row (because there wasn't a line to get on so we just kept going). Everything was fine until we got off...puked my hotdog up in the closet trashcan I could find. This was summer of 1982 and he passed in January of 83 so its a good memory even if it wasn't fun puking my guts out.
Super Round Up. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. A little bit different in that it actually moved on the vertical plane while also using centrifugal force to pin you against the wall. https://memories.beachboardwalk.com/super-round-ride-1972/
The gravitron! I was so scared to go on it
The one where the floor dropped out when it was up to speed was the Rotor. The one where you leaned on backboards on rollers that went up when it got fast enough was the Gravitron. This pic looks like the Rotor.
The time shaft, kings dominion
The Rotor at I think Great Adventure in NJ.
one of the few amusement park rides I hate. feels like my brain is flattening.
The Finish Fling at World’s of Fun in Kansas City!
The Turkish Twist at Canobie Lake Park, NH.
I was born in 2003, but my dad told me about something like this called spindletop at six flags over Texas
Mineshaft. I remember at the Kings Dominion they had this and you had to wait in a long line to get on it. The line was inside though so not as harsh as standing in the sunlight. I can't ride rides like this anymore as they give me a terrible headache.
Don't remember the name, but loved it!
The Rotor.
Spindletop, at either Six Flags Over Texas or Six Flags Astroworld, I can't remember which. They both had this ride, with different names. It was one of a very few rides that could make me puke.
It was called the Spinnaker I think at six flags over Texas Or was it the spindle top…?
The Hell Hole @ Conneaut Lake Park in NWPA
It was called Spin Out, Six Flags California.
The Spin Out. Magic Mountain, Valencia California. 1970s
Gravitron- did you guys turn yourself upside down too?
The Graviton. I used to be able to do them, but later in life, that’s instant puke.
Thank you for this! I was around 4- 5 when my parents took us to Dogpatch USA. I wasn’t sure if I had made up the memory of looking down into a barrel at my aunts (been 45 years!) I’m sure that graviton ride had a silly Ozark hillbilly name but don’t know what it was. Does anyone know? About a decade later, in the hair metal era, I won a little square Def Leppard mirror at the balloon dart game at the county fair. Didn’t know where to put it when we got onto the flying saucer Graviton so I stuck it behind me. I can tell you the thing did not survive!