I have only fond memories of this place. My mom used to bring my brother and I at least once every summer. Thank you for posing this and thank you, Mom. I love you and I miss you.
I grew up in Canandaigua in the 60's and 70's so I have a lot of memories of this place from the time I was a little kid. The bumper cars, the haunted house (I remember it got re-themed at one point), the Skyliner and the Carousel. The smell of hot dogs and popcorn and cotton candy. Then there was the shooting gallery and the arcade, and above the arcade was the slot car track and the Fascination game (spent some time there). Sunshine special during summer vacation, where you got free rides based on how many A's and B's were on your report card. Then there were the Saturday morning bowling kid's bowling leagues at Roseland bowl right across the street. Canandaigua was a great place to grow up back then.
This was my first amusement park and I was eight. It was 1964 and my friend chipped her front teeth on the roller coaster. We convinced my Mom to stay anyway…thanks for the memories
I was 10 years old in 1970, My family would ride our boat from the south end of the lake all the way to the park. We would dock the boat and spend the day there. Thanks for the memories of a much better time.
Used to go there in the 70’s while in CYO day camp. Once a year our weekly trip somewhere was to Roseland god what a treat being a 12-13 year old. Seems like a different lifetime ago.
I remember going here during the eary '80s I was about jr high. It does bring back a lot of memories. The younger guys I work with and I were just talking about Roseland the other day. I can't believe it's been gone almost 30 years.
my grandfather started Roseland with a hotdog stand back in the 30's. Then sold to Bill Muir and he then added the rides to make it an amusement park. Memories of fun and hot summer days.....
@@timippolito1182 I do not have pictures of what was to be Roseland. I do have a picture of the Hot Dog Stand and a newspaper article somewhere. Since relocating, much of those kind of things are in boxes. He owned the property and kept 250 hogs on it as part of a study thru Cornell for hoof rot in hogs.
When my Dad took the Family to Roseland, we always started out having a picnic across the street at Kurshaw Park. I still have my Mom's Thermos Jug from those days.. We still have Seabreeze Park which has been going since 1879..
Thanks for your nice comment. I've got stacks of reels and cassettes I need to go thru yet and upload. I can't believe how much I've shot in my lifetime.
I can remember as a child, going to this park by boat. My father would boat us all the way up the lake and park the boat and we would go to the park for the day. Wonderful times, so sad it is now gone.
Thank you for sharing! As a former Rochestarian, Roseland Park was our favorite Amusement Park & great place for picnic! I'll never forget the day I talked my parents into going onto the roller coaster with us when I was 10, they turned beet red that I felt so bad, never pushed them to go on any rides with us ever again!
July 2016 and I am watching this late night after enjoying a few drinks.......I am so sad and in an immense state of nostalgia. I SO want to go back to Roseland this summer! Thank you SO much for the fantastic effort filming this in detail......details ever forgotten in time. It makes me very sad.....but so happy to watch this video and remember.
Many years latter I still remember that day as if it were yesterday...They had a little booth where you could make your own 45 record there, I believe I was about 11 when I went into the booth to record "Harper Valley PTA" & "D-i-v-o-r-c-e", right around 1968/1969 period, the man played my recording over the speakers and my Dad was so proud, people were walking up to me giving me compliments on my voice...This experience is what made me continue to strive to be an entertainer/songwriter.
Thank you so much for posting this. This took me back to my childhood. I was 8 years old when that was filmed. Good times. Good memories. I remember you could bring your report card at the end of the school year and they would give you a reduction on your ticket fare for your grades.
I must have been around 12 when I rode the "flying scooter" seen at 4:50. There was a stiff wind blowing off the lake, and the car was taking flight! The cables were whipping around - It scared the bejeebers out of me!
What wonderful memories of a time gone by. My family would drive from Rochester to Roseland on a Sunday, Have dinner at Caruso's and then let me ride rides Thank you for sharing.
I so badly want to do a documentary on roseland, but I do not have the funding to do it. Roseland was my favorite place to go as a child, and I miss it so much. A place so great should not make me so sad to think about. So many good memories
ithis place was so much fun, I can remember DuPont picnics, class outings, or just a bunch of us getting together. loved the roller coaster, and the flying boats. we could get way up over the buildings. then there was skee ball, and the hope that we could get something great! cotton candy, hot dogs, oh, yeah, tilt-a-whirl, and bumper cars! what a great place, and we didn't realize how lucky we were. I grew up in the 50's, and it was a clean,wonderful place to spend the day or nitght!
Hi Peter, no, my grandfather was not Lester. Lester bought Roseland from Bill Muir in the early 60's. I am sure you remember Celeste Colvin. Bill was her grandfather. My family owned the land between the lake and Saltonstall St. which was sold to Bill Muir way way back. Remember the hot dog stand in front of Roseland bowl? That was the original "Roseland" which my grand father started.
Roseland's merry-go-round and it's band organ were restored and became the focal point of Syracuse, NY's "Carousel Mall", which was recently renamed "Destiny USA".
My first encounter with Roseland was around 1964, when I was 5. Later, after I learned to drive, it was a frequent destination for me and as many friends we could cram into dad's car. (a lot, it was a Chrysler New Yorker) I came by this film looking for a video clip of the animated French's Mustard neon sign on main street Rochester. I've watched several dozen promising videos so far, but nothing has that sign in it. I'm also looking for video of the "Seagrams' 7" animated neon that greeted people arriving downtown Rochester via the eastern expressway built on the old Erie canal bed. If you have any film clips of either sign.. please, PLEASE post them! I've been on this search (well, on and off) for a couple years now and the closest I've gotten is a film clip starting almost directly in front of that sign on main street and heading eastbound on main from there. Thank you very much for posting this. Great memories. It's a real shame the park is gone.
Oh wow , I was 11 yrs old in 1970 and my Dad would get all day tickets at work , he worked at Steckers , it's not there anymore but thank you for the good childhood memories I had . You can't go back but it's just so nice to remember the youth we had and it just goes by way too fast . I wish they never knocked it down . I had a great childhood and God Bless my parents bc they really made it happen .. Kids today don't know the fun we had we did not have I pads and all this high tech crap that is destroying our kids today ...
Makes me sad to know Roseland Park is gone. When my husband and I were dating we would travel from Blasdell, NY each year to Roseland. Our oldest child has been there but she's too young to remember. Sad for me.
My wife and mother in law tells me that my father in law was into recording everything where ever he went by taking pictures and videos. But after he died, my mother in law threw all of his recordings away. Some people have no appreciation for such things. What a waste.
I have only fond memories of this place. My mom used to bring my brother and I at least once every summer. Thank you for posing this and thank you, Mom. I love you and I miss you.
I grew up in Canandaigua in the 60's and 70's so I have a lot of memories of this place from the time I was a little kid. The bumper cars, the haunted house (I remember it got re-themed at one point), the Skyliner and the Carousel. The smell of hot dogs and popcorn and cotton candy. Then there was the shooting gallery and the arcade, and above the arcade was the slot car track and the Fascination game (spent some time there). Sunshine special during summer vacation, where you got free rides based on how many A's and B's were on your report card. Then there were the Saturday morning bowling kid's bowling leagues at Roseland bowl right across the street. Canandaigua was a great place to grow up back then.
This was my first amusement park and I was eight. It was 1964 and my friend chipped her front teeth on the roller coaster. We convinced my Mom to stay anyway…thanks for the memories
A good fun weekend was going to Roseland Park for a Saturday morning of fun riding on the roller-coaster and then swimming in the lake that afternoon.
I was 10 years old in 1970, My family would ride our boat from the south end of the lake all the way to the park. We would dock the boat and spend the day there.
Thanks for the memories of a much better time.
I worked at Roseland in the cotton candy stand every summer from 1971 to 1976.
Best summers of my life...thank you for the memories.
In the summer of 76, children could gain free admission if they showed a passing report card.
Used to go there in the 70’s while in CYO day camp. Once a year our weekly trip somewhere was to Roseland god what a treat being a 12-13 year old. Seems like a different lifetime ago.
that woman seemed very friendly,lol
kerry nice song, i forgot the name!
thanks again
I remember going here during the eary '80s I was about jr high. It does bring back a lot of memories. The younger guys I work with and I were just talking about Roseland the other day. I can't believe it's been gone almost 30 years.
I loved this place!!! The Golden nugget was alot of fun!
my grandfather started Roseland with a hotdog stand back in the 30's. Then sold to Bill Muir and he then added the rides to make it an amusement park. Memories of fun and hot summer days.....
Do you have early pics when your Grandfather started
Roseland?
@@timippolito1182 I do not have pictures of what was to be Roseland. I do have a picture of the Hot Dog Stand and a newspaper article somewhere. Since relocating, much of those kind of things are in boxes. He owned the property and kept 250 hogs on it as part of a study thru Cornell for hoof rot in hogs.
When my Dad took the Family to Roseland, we always started
out having a picnic across the street at Kurshaw Park. I still
have my Mom's Thermos Jug from those days..
We still have Seabreeze Park which has been going since
1879..
Thanks for your nice comment. I've got stacks of reels and cassettes I need to go thru yet and upload. I can't believe how much I've shot in my lifetime.
Please do!! This footage is priceless!!
I can remember as a child, going to this park by boat. My father would boat us all the way up the lake and park the boat and we would go to the park for the day. Wonderful times, so sad it is now gone.
"Come to Roseland, for a good time, come to Roseland, for a good tme..." That was the tv jingle in 1976.
Thank you for sharing! As a former Rochestarian, Roseland Park was our favorite Amusement Park & great place for picnic! I'll never forget the day I talked my parents into going onto the roller coaster with us when I was 10, they turned beet red that I felt so bad, never pushed them to go on any rides with us ever again!
July 2016 and I am watching this late night after enjoying a few drinks.......I am
so sad and in an immense state of nostalgia. I SO want to go back to Roseland this summer! Thank you SO much for the fantastic effort filming this in detail......details ever forgotten in time. It makes me very sad.....but so happy to watch this video and remember.
Many years latter I still remember that day as if it were yesterday...They had a little booth where you could make your own 45 record there, I believe I was about 11 when I went into the booth to record "Harper Valley PTA" & "D-i-v-o-r-c-e", right around 1968/1969 period, the man played my recording over the speakers and my Dad was so proud, people were walking up to me giving me compliments on my voice...This experience is what made me continue to strive to be an entertainer/songwriter.
The wooden coaster in the video is the Skyliner, which is now at Lakemont Park in PA.
Thank you so much for posting this. This took me back to my childhood. I was 8 years old when that was filmed. Good times. Good memories. I remember you could bring your report card at the end of the school year and they would give you a reduction on your ticket fare for your grades.
I must have been around 12 when I rode the "flying scooter" seen at 4:50. There was a stiff wind blowing off the lake, and the car was taking flight! The cables were whipping around - It scared the bejeebers out of me!
Did I miss the Mourse? Scariest ride I'd ever been on - swore it turned right angles, just at the water's edge!
My hobby became my vocation.
And to some your vocation has become art. Thanks for sharing your past.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
What wonderful memories of a time gone by. My family would drive from Rochester to Roseland on a Sunday, Have dinner at Caruso's and then let me ride rides Thank you for sharing.
I so badly want to do a documentary on roseland, but I do not have the funding to do it. Roseland was my favorite place to go as a child, and I miss it so much. A place so great should not make me so sad to think about. So many good memories
FIVE STARS thank you for posting this!
Very sad it's gone
ithis place was so much fun, I can remember DuPont picnics, class outings, or just a bunch of us getting together. loved the roller coaster, and the flying boats. we could get way up over the buildings. then there was skee ball, and the hope that we could get something great! cotton candy, hot dogs, oh, yeah, tilt-a-whirl, and bumper cars! what a great place, and we didn't realize how lucky we were. I grew up in the 50's, and it was a clean,wonderful place to spend the day or nitght!
I had such riot here!
This park and the times were so cool. Grampa used to sail us across the lake for a fun packed night.
Thanks for the video -- Roseland was a great park for us teenagers. Enjoyed the memories! Too bad they closed -- bummer for the teens of today
Had a lot of fun there, lot of good memories! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Peter, no, my grandfather was not Lester. Lester bought Roseland from Bill Muir in the early 60's. I am sure you remember Celeste Colvin. Bill was her grandfather. My family owned the land between the lake and Saltonstall St. which was sold to Bill Muir way way back. Remember the hot dog stand in front of Roseland bowl? That was the original "Roseland" which my grand father started.
I never went on that ride! Did the Trabant but the scooters looked too scary.
Love to see video locations of my youth!
what was the "gold Rush"? Remember Olympic Park and the Wild Mouse?
Roseland's merry-go-round and it's band organ were restored and became the focal point of Syracuse, NY's "Carousel Mall", which was recently renamed "Destiny USA".
Nice. You must also have an impressive collection of cameras. Was this your life long hobby or were you in the industry?
How could they have torn down Roseland? Canandaigua has never been the same.
My first encounter with Roseland was around 1964, when I was 5. Later, after I learned to drive, it was a frequent destination for me and as many friends we could cram into dad's car. (a lot, it was a Chrysler New Yorker)
I came by this film looking for a video clip of the animated French's Mustard neon sign on main street Rochester. I've watched several dozen promising videos so far, but nothing has that sign in it.
I'm also looking for video of the "Seagrams' 7" animated neon that greeted people arriving downtown Rochester via the eastern expressway built on the old Erie canal bed.
If you have any film clips of either sign.. please, PLEASE post them! I've been on this search (well, on and off) for a couple years now and the closest I've gotten is a film clip starting almost directly in front of that sign on main street and heading eastbound on main from there.
Thank you very much for posting this. Great memories. It's a real shame the park is gone.
Damn. Didn't know Edison made a portable Kinetoscope.
How long have you been taking home movies? Are all these your videos you took?
well done!
I've been taking home movies since 1960. Nearly everything you see on my channel has been produced by yours-truly.
Oh wow , I was 11 yrs old in 1970 and my Dad would get all day tickets at work , he worked at Steckers , it's not there anymore but thank you for the good childhood memories I had . You can't go back but it's just so nice to remember the youth we had and it just goes by way too fast . I wish they never knocked it down . I had a great childhood and God Bless my parents bc they really made it happen .. Kids today don't know the fun we had we did not have I pads and all this high tech crap that is destroying our kids today ...
Great video Man,!!!!!! Thankz for Sharing'''bro
As for the song, one of my all-time favorites, "More" by Kai Winding. As for the "friendly woman", theres a long story about each of those pictured.
Makes me sad to know Roseland Park is gone. When my husband and I were dating we would travel from Blasdell, NY each year to Roseland. Our oldest child has been there but she's too young to remember. Sad for me.
My wife and mother in law tells me that my father in law was into recording everything where ever he went by taking pictures and videos. But after he died, my mother in law threw all of his recordings away. Some people have no appreciation for such things. What a waste.
Was your grandfather Lester Boyce?
What fun times taxes and regulation killed all the fun