You're supposed to use a burlap sack on the slide. We have a blue colored slide like that still in use at Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay Wisconsin. But ours has 9 lanes to slide down. I used to ride on it a lot when I was a child in the 1980's & 1990's and it's still being used today. I don't know when it was built, but looking at historical satellite views it looks like it was sometime between 1960 and 1971.
Chris, you just needed a burlap sack to slide down on. The Train, the Tornado, and the Totem Pole all looked OK. The rest of the park looked like I feel: It was cool and amazing and good looking in it's day but now it's old and crap. Love your videos!
Flood damaged cars are basically scrap. The water and silt just screws up the electronics so bad that no amount of repair will fix all the issues. Maybe flood damaged amusement park rides are the same.
Chris you always make me homesick for my ancestral homeland Pennsylvania. And Jersey too. Always so pleasantly evocative of a time and place now far away…
That was a great find thanks so much for sharing. Thanks for you sharing I follow journey with Jay and Lemont at Large. The three of you guys are incredible.
The SWF machine is an embroidery machine. Since that was like the office or staff room, they probably made promotional t-shirts and other merchandise with the park logo or something on it.
Mike im sure that tree is 200 plus years old But just wanted to tell you a tree size isnt a good indicator of age I have an oak tree in my front yard that my mother planted in 1977 this tree is so big that i cant wrap my arms around the trunk The reason it grew so big so fast is because it has been getting nutrients from a septic tank bleeder line i often ask people to guess the age of the tree People always say 100 plus years
What a shame, That park looks like it brought a lot of joy to many people and families. Those rides are still so colorful, perhaps with a dike wall it could come back to lifr, perhaps. That's a beautiful area of Pennsylvania, Train rides and museums in the Brandywine creek area, home to the Wyeth art family. Cheers, Rik Spector
I take it this was the Brandywine Amusement Park? Bushkill Park was in Easton, PA, off Rt. 22. FYI the railroad car restaurant, The Riverside, just west of Townsbury, NJ on Rt. 46 just received a condemnation order. I don't know when demolition will start. Glad you recorded it for posterity.
30 years ago when we moved to the Philly area my fathers company had their company picnics here at Brandywine Picnic Park. Have many fond memories. Sad to see it in this shape. And as someone else commented, the last review I could find was from 2018. Not 10 years ago…😢
According to roller coaster database, Brandywine Picnic Park opened in 1926 and closed in 2019. It once had a wooden rollercoaster that closed way back in 1980.
Sad to see that wisdom tornado rusting away. I worked in the carnival business for about 11 years and assembled one of the very first of these built. Nice little moneymaking ride
@@MobileInstinct yes In July 2010. It was the ONE and ONLY time they sold something they acquired and returned money to the owner. They sold a sign that was worth alot more than they thought. Since the park was trying to rebuild and reopen, they returned and gave them $5000 cash to rebuild. Unfortunately they never reopened
Brandywine Picnic Park? That was opened when I moved down here and that was in 2017. It was marketed to kids and camps, so I never felt the need to go. The tropical storm that came through did allot of damage to nearby towns. I had a roommate whose house along the creek was destroyed. He was only able to salvage a few things. I only would have had damage to my car had I not moved it out of the street that day. The street was dry minutes before, but the sudden rainfall brought a deluge of water down the hillside. The backyard became a river for a few hours from a creek that barely has any water flowing through.
I’m torn by the wistful nostalgia and bittersweet memories, versus the sheer mess that’s left behind. We don’t seem to account for the actual long term cost of what we don’t clean up.
The name of that park it was called Lenape Park I forget when they closed but after Lenape Park closed it became brandywine picnic Park but I can't remember when that closed I live about 40 minutes from there and I'm about 20 minutes from Downingtown
at least by what google earth/maps showed it looked in ok condition up to about 2019 (that year on Google Earth at least shows a decent amount of cars in the parking lot). So weird that only 3 years later it looks that bad.
The machine in the building is for embroidery, but for a business, not generally for home use as one that size would be quite expensive and extremely heavy (my father owned an embroidery shop for nearly 30 years and ours was a different brand, but they look almost identical 👍).
No not a decade closed. About 1 year it’s been closed. Huge hurricane hit and destroyed the whole place. I grew up at that park. Was that classic school field trip place haha.
6:10 This is a machine that uses a high voltage electrical charge to convert depleted uranium fragments into chewable gumballs, although some people use it to create embroidery.
I'm pretty sure I have photos of this place. 1 rollercoaster we would ride 50 times in a day. We wouldn't even get off. I look back now and think that rollercoaster wasnt even a legit coaster. It was just shoved into some trees. We ised to go for my dads company and leisure too. Very small but not overpriced or packed
That's how it's still done today at one that has 9 lanes to slide down. At Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay Wisconsin. I rode on it a lot in the 1980's and 1990's. Looking at old satellite views, it was built sometime between 1960 and 1971.
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You're supposed to use a burlap sack on the slide. We have a blue colored slide like that still in use at Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay Wisconsin. But ours has 9 lanes to slide down. I used to ride on it a lot when I was a child in the 1980's & 1990's and it's still being used today. I don't know when it was built, but looking at historical satellite views it looks like it was sometime between 1960 and 1971.
@@specialed6357a burlap sack wouldn't help much lol, the slide surface is worn down to the fiberglass mold 😲
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Chris, you just needed a burlap sack to slide down on. The Train, the Tornado, and the Totem Pole all looked OK. The rest of the park looked like I feel: It was cool and amazing and good looking in it's day but now it's old and crap. Love your videos!
Seven foot of flooding sure would wreck havoc on an amusement park. So sad. Thanks for showing this to us.
Abandoned amusement parks are one of my favorites. Eerie and sad.
Mine too
Me too
That's kinda eerie, seeing a deserted amusement park!
Several of them exist. I know Post10 on youtube has videoed several he has been too also.
It’s hardly unique
You should see the Six Flags abandoned amusement park in New Orleans, LA. Now that place will give you goose bumps!!
Abandoned amusement parks are always a sad sight to see, especially if it was one that you used to go to when you were just a kid.
Love the fact Chris is just a Big Kid at heart :) Wonder why no one has salvaged that huge Live Edge Table.
It’s sad to think that the owners wouldn’t just sell whatever is left instead of just letting it sit there and rot away.
It’s probably been written off as unsafe for commercial use due to flood damage and cannot be insured anymore. Just my guess.
Flood damaged cars are basically scrap. The water and silt just screws up the electronics so bad that no amount of repair will fix all the issues. Maybe flood damaged amusement park rides are the same.
Chris you always make me homesick for my ancestral homeland Pennsylvania. And Jersey too. Always so pleasantly evocative of a time and place now far away…
That was a great find thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks for you sharing I follow journey with Jay and Lemont at Large. The three of you guys are incredible.
Thanks! 🙌
The SWF machine is an embroidery machine. Since that was like the office or staff room, they probably made promotional t-shirts and other merchandise with the park logo or something on it.
As a former Pennsylvania resident, seeing this saddens me. It's a real shame what happened here.
Can we talk about how HUGE that tree is at 7:47 -- that thing has to be 200 years old!
That is a pretty impressive trunk
Lots of big old sycamores around here!
Mike im sure that tree is 200 plus years old
But just wanted to tell you a tree size isnt a good indicator of age
I have an oak tree in my front yard that my mother planted in 1977 this tree is so big that i cant wrap my arms around the trunk
The reason it grew so big so fast is because it has been getting nutrients from a septic tank bleeder line i often ask people to guess the age of the tree
People always say 100 plus years
Great to see you and Jay again and interesting how things are left abandoned for years.great video!
I'm from PA to and love seeing all these abandoned places that you show from pa and nj. That no one would ever see if u didn't video them
Post10 visits places like this and others that MI hasn't and shows them on youtube also
What a shame,
That park looks like it brought a lot of joy to many people and families.
Those rides are still so colorful, perhaps with a dike wall it could come back to lifr, perhaps.
That's a beautiful area of Pennsylvania, Train rides and museums in the Brandywine creek area,
home to the Wyeth art family.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
I take it this was the Brandywine Amusement Park? Bushkill Park was in Easton, PA, off Rt. 22. FYI the railroad car restaurant, The Riverside, just west of Townsbury, NJ on Rt. 46 just received a condemnation order. I don't know when demolition will start. Glad you recorded it for posterity.
🤫 one of the reasons youtubers don't give away location info about abandoned places they visit is because of graffiti and vandalism
30 years ago when we moved to the Philly area my fathers company had their company picnics here at Brandywine Picnic Park. Have many fond memories. Sad to see it in this shape. And as someone else commented, the last review I could find was from 2018. Not 10 years ago…😢
Literal boomer dinosaur
the swf thing was an embroidery machine,,,,, vary expensive to leave!!!! great video!!!
Yes and worth the repair.
Nice. There's no way I could have left without trying the slide!
According to roller coaster database, Brandywine Picnic Park opened in 1926 and closed in 2019. It once had a wooden rollercoaster that closed way back in 1980.
There's no way it closed in 2019! That place had to be closed since the early 90s.
@@Utubesanarc There are some youtube videos from 2017 and 2014 with Brandywine in operation.
@@Utubesanarcif you look at the paint on the exterior of the buildings, it’s a fresher coat than on most things at the Six Flags park in NJ.
Slidin board tip:
Sit on a piece of wax paper. 😁
Thanks for the tour you two!
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I was just looking to see if u posted 😂 and u just did lol! I live In Pennsylvania!
I do too
Pennsylvania born and raised
@@oogieboogie5678 same
Me too Pennsylvania is trasshhhhhh I’m moving to texas
@Abbys Apples 2 I'm in Ephrata
Looks like 2018 was the last year of operation according to Tripadviser reviews. Reminds me of Williams Grove Park which also kept flooding.
It didn't take long for the property to decay at an insurmountable point
What was the parks name and location?
@@nathanmeece9794brandywine picnic park
This would be so much fun to explore,wow awesome.
You could find real beauty in these Abandoned parks Thank you it was great
I enjoy your videos very much Chris. Thank you for them.
Thank you Chris! ❤️
That's a spooky and eerie place. Thanks for sharing.
Sad to see that wisdom tornado rusting away. I worked in the carnival business for about 11 years and assembled one of the very first of these built. Nice little moneymaking ride
Seems I remember going down those big slides on a gunny sack! Or something!
Burlap sacks or feed sacks were commonly used... Chris is lucky he didn't get a backside full of fiberglass! 😝
Free mini golf. Hack down a few weeds and boom Friday night is booked. You need that rug to use with the slide.
Love your videos! So great to see you and Jay together again
Man ,,,,I'd have to grab that totum pole . That was cool.🤟🤟
Awesome video Chris. I hope you have a fun weekend.
6:11 looks like an embroidery machine.
Great vid! American Pickers was there also.
Whoa, I didn't know that!
@@MobileInstinct yes In July 2010. It was the ONE and ONLY time they sold something they acquired and returned money to the owner. They sold a sign that was worth alot more than they thought. Since the park was trying to rebuild and reopen, they returned and gave them $5000 cash to rebuild. Unfortunately they never reopened
I don’t this is bushkill park, though. Is it? If so I worked there in 2004 for a summer job lol
@@danieldrago8766 I could be wrong then. I thought it was. It looked like Bushkill and the stories with all the flooding made sense. Sorry.
@@flightforensics4523 LMFAO calm down Cheech.
You should take a fix it Felix Hammer from Wreck it Ralph, & fix EVERY abandoned place!!!
Phew....
I'm glad you made it down the slide in one piece..
For a moment there I thought you were a goner from going so fast..🤣🤣🤣
Oh you are brave ! Thanks for the tour of days gone by.💙
Some people like exploring
That Tornado ride looked like it was a blast back in the day. Wow I'd have definitely got on even today.
There is a tornado at both Hershey and Knoebels. It’s not a terribly old ride. Knoebels just debuted their ride in 2021.
The abandoned park along the brandywine River was once the Lennipe amusement park. A big storm took it out. Then it became the brandywine picnic park.
You really went down the slide!! Great video
Pretty sure that machine you found was an industrial embroidery machine for like making custom ball caps and stuff.
Good Job Chris!! 💙🌟😂Hi Jay!!
Very interesting video, thanks Chris 👍👊🇬🇧🇺🇸
Brandywine Picnic Park? That was opened when I moved down here and that was in 2017. It was marketed to kids and camps, so I never felt the need to go. The tropical storm that came through did allot of damage to nearby towns. I had a roommate whose house along the creek was destroyed. He was only able to salvage a few things. I only would have had damage to my car had I not moved it out of the street that day. The street was dry minutes before, but the sudden rainfall brought a deluge of water down the hillside. The backyard became a river for a few hours from a creek that barely has any water flowing through.
Thanks for the adventure 🙌😏
I love the Tornado! Start me Up 😍
Abandoned amusement parks are the most interesting places, albeit really sad and often creepy.
Crazy to think all these abandoned buildings everywhere around the world we clean that shit up and use the land for something better
Wow the destruction is massive
excellent find and exploration!
Looks like a great place to find bees. Check out rocky springs amusement park in Lancaster Pennsylvania
Mobile can you hit some more ancient places bro...visit U.K there plenty here too see....cheers
I’m torn by the wistful nostalgia and bittersweet memories, versus the sheer mess that’s left behind. We don’t seem to account for the actual long term cost of what we don’t clean up.
Need some burlap sacks for that slide.
very cool location. Love the content. Keep it comin
Sup Chris happy to see you.
The slide really tried so you could have a good ride lol.
Like the content I always tune in
Reminds me of what happened at Opy-Land Park in Nashville.
Great video. Cool looking place
Very cool to see . Very interesting in deed
Did you ever explore Dreamland Park, just a little north of Reading, PA. I think it closed in the '60s and two murders took place there.
Brandywine picnic park. I've been here a few times.
Check out Blackbeard's Cave in Bayville, NJ. It use to be an amusement park but now its abandoned after Covid
Hi Chris & Jay
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While in PA, you should do a video on the Dreamland Park double murder, if you haven't yet. Crazy story.
That is a very clever video title. 😉
Would you happen to know who owns the property or how I could get in touch with someone on buying the rides thanks guys keep up the awesome work
They are selling the entire 22 acres for $795,000.
@@kathymccaul2637 wow thats an insane amount of money for land that is prone to flooding
And then is going to need a lot of money spent on clean up
The train and slide looks like it's salvageable enough to be restored and used elsewhere. Too bad they're just sitting there..
Id be amazed if this place was abandoned for 10 years with how good shape it is in.
GREAT VIDEO!!!! THANKS..
You can almost hear the kids having fun in residual time. Bet the families who used this place, missed it. Spooky
I used to ride the tornado each time it was at our state fair; don't see that ride anymore though
Not far from my house! Gonna check it out. May i ask how you find the sites you visit? Excellent channel man i love your vids
Must have been nice in its heyday 🌟
The name of that park it was called Lenape Park I forget when they closed but after Lenape Park closed it became brandywine picnic Park but I can't remember when that closed I live about 40 minutes from there and I'm about 20 minutes from Downingtown
The perils of trying to operate within a flood plane are on full display here.
at least by what google earth/maps showed it looked in ok condition up to about 2019 (that year on Google Earth at least shows a decent amount of cars in the parking lot). So weird that only 3 years later it looks that bad.
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@Mark Strouse I'd recommend Post10 for videos like this.
I Love your videos
Thanks!
The machine in the building is for embroidery, but for a business, not generally for home use as one that size would be quite expensive and extremely heavy (my father owned an embroidery shop for nearly 30 years and ours was a different brand, but they look almost identical 👍).
No not a decade closed. About 1 year it’s been closed. Huge hurricane hit and destroyed the whole place. I grew up at that park. Was that classic school field trip place haha.
6:10 This is a machine that uses a high voltage electrical charge to convert depleted uranium fragments into chewable gumballs, although some people use it to create embroidery.
Lenape Park closed in 1985 after that it was brandywine picnic Park but I don't know when they closed
Very cool video.!
Ty. Great video
Ha! I used to work for a carnival and moved the Tornado!
Loved it!!!
I'm pretty sure I have photos of this place. 1 rollercoaster we would ride 50 times in a day. We wouldn't even get off. I look back now and think that rollercoaster wasnt even a legit coaster. It was just shoved into some trees. We ised to go for my dads company and leisure too. Very small but not overpriced or packed
Its so strange to see comments from other people who have been THERE and live HERE in Georgia.
Economics is the usual culprit behind amusement park closures.
A lot of the equipment seemed to be touring kit, a meaning that most of the rides were only in there temporarily.
Good point. Or they may have been permanently temporary, so to speak.
They use to use burlap sacks to ride on back in the day, which made it better so you would slide fast and not burn you butt....lol...
That's how it's still done today at one that has 9 lanes to slide down. At Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay Wisconsin. I rode on it a lot in the 1980's and 1990's. Looking at old satellite views, it was built sometime between 1960 and 1971.
so much stuff could have been saved. some serious treasures still there. what a damn shame.
Some boss's bitchy notes about boxes left hanging there for all of eternity.
1:50 that looked like it was fun
I never understand why people can just leave all the equipment and no on bothers to take it out. Nor does the city make the owners take it out, sad.
Why would the city make them take it out?
@@juliebraden6911 bc it's on city grounds and abandoned 🙄
Someone must own it the grass has been mowed