“Rollee Coaster” operator recalls Luna Park heyday
by Sandy Wells | The Charleston Gazette
Compared to the topsy-turvy twists and turns of contemporary rides, there wasn’t much to it. It didn’t hurtle you through star-studded blackness like Space Mountain at Disney World. It didn’t hurl you out over the water like the Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens. It didn’t even have a ferocious name like The Beast at King’s Island.
But the old Royal Giant Dips Coaster at Luna Park was frightening enough.
“It was scary as anything,” Dick Gresham says. “A chain pulled you up and let you loose. Then the hollerin’ started. Everybody hollered and whooped and carried on.”
Gresham knows all about the Royal Giant Dips Coaster. He not only rode it. He ran it.
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