FILE PHOTO Sol Abrams in 1979
APRIL 17, 2015, 3:45 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015, 10:38 AM
BY JAY LEVIN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Sol Abrams stopped at nothing to promote Palisades Amusement Park. If that meant having an elephant water-ski with a showgirl on the Hudson, so be it.
“Genius? I’d give him that honor,” Vince Gargiulo, who runs the Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society, said of Abrams, who died Wednesday at home in New Milford. He was 89 and the last surviving member of the park’s management team.
For 20-plus years, until the day in 1971 that the landmark attraction straddling Fort Lee and Cliffside Park closed for good, Abrams, the consummate PR man, dreamed up ways to get Palisades Amusement Park on the airwaves and into the newspapers.
Beauty contests? Check.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/sol-abrams-palisades-amusement-park-promoter-dies-at-89-1.1311828
Not many old timers here that have visited Palisades Park and swam in their salt water wave pool.
NJ residents could not travel to Coney Island and preferred the NJ pool in their own backyard.
You are old enough JJ aren’t you ?
I remember the old wooden roller coaster.
Remember the 60’s famous hit by Freddy Cannon “Palisades Park”. Never forgot that tune and lyrics, ‘when you fell in love down at Palisades Park’. Loved that wooden cyclone roller coaster, the tunnel of love with your one and only, and those fab bumper cars. The 60’s were the greatest.
I grew up right down the block it was great. the parking was a mess, it looked like the city.