Wet N' Wild in the '80s Las Vegas

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"Now You're Playing with Power!"
Here is a collection of Video clips from a Hot Summer Day at Wet N' Wild Water park on the Las Vegas Strip. For 20 years, Wet N' Wild Dazzled locals and tourists alike, giving all in the desert a reprieve from the Vegas Heat.
You;ll recognize some of these fine tunes from your favorite games and some of these rides from your wildest dreams..and nightmares.
Recorded June 1988
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@gabbysambienceofrivers4813 9 лет назад

This is the wet n wild I miss going to sooooooooooooo much!!

@TripleDinLV 11 лет назад

Thank you for posting that; it brought back a LOT of memories! That summer, 1988, was the first year I went to work for WNW, as a 15 y.o. junior lifeguard; great memories, great friends, and great times! thank you...

@boatswainsm8 10 лет назад

Moved to Vegas in 1981; Those were awesome times to live in Vegas!!!

@sharkwhisperer7326 Год назад

Sure was!

@dirkkdiggler97 2 года назад

Thank You for posting this and editing it with video game music of the same era!!!! LoL this takes me back to so much good times, I miss it and the clock on the Sahara with the temp as well

@GrowinupinSincity81 2 года назад

You're very welcome. Remember searching for the Sahara Thermometer, while waiting in line. Almost 18 years, to the day, since my Final Visit in 2004.

@dirkkdiggler97 2 года назад

@@GrowinupinSincity81 it’s a crazy trip down memory lane, I remember being in the fifth grade, and jumping the gate on the Vegas blvd side by before the Bombay was there, I can’t believe it’s gone still, I also remember how hazardous the place was lol 😂 I hurt myself and drowned so many times there but that’s apart of growing up in Vegas lol, anyways thank you again you rock 💯

@jebjab22 4 года назад

Omg I practically lived at this water park in the 80's. I have so many amazing memories from there. Thanks for posting this.

@patr70 3 года назад

Do you still live in Las Vegas? I went to Wet-n-Wild a few times in 1986/1987.

@jebjab22 3 года назад

@@patr70 I was born in Vegas lived there until I was 10 then my parents moved us to New Mexico to be closer to our family.

@patr70 3 года назад

@@jebjab22 Ok. 😊

@expjames911 3 года назад

my favorite was walking behind the waterfall in the big blue swimming pool. I don't think you were supposed to, but kids did anyways. Sneaking off from our parents. Amazing times at Wet n Wild.

@eskhawk 2 года назад

Ahh the nostalgia...I used to live in LV until 92...Loved when WET N WILD opened every summer

@beatlesnmore 3 года назад

my family spent every weekend there with season tickets...great family recreation in Las Vegas

@Utube0939 6 лет назад

Oh this brings back soo much memories! Back when Vegas was Vegas!

@JH-ho2mh 4 года назад

I remember it being cold a$$ water to..

@SYCZ 12 лет назад

Thanks for this video. Really brings me back. And now even the Sahara is closed... I remember checking the time and temperature

@sharkwhisperer7326 Год назад

I was there first day it opened in '85~! Was rad!

@TheTradesmanLU2001 11 лет назад

Went the 1st day they opened ! I was about 5/6 yrs old. Went many many times each year. Grew up going to this park. My kids were born in 01,03 and I was always bummed out that they never got to build memories of it like my friends and I did! Now with the new one about to open they get to enjoy a "wet n wild" too! I'm excited!

@cerissalopez7378 2 года назад

Ahhh...nothing like the nostalgia of my first anxiety attack I've ever had, which was in the Bombay

@TheTradesmanLU2001 9 лет назад

I went the day they opened. June 85' I believe. Last time I went was maybe 2002. I visited the new wet n wild yesterday. It was fun but it doesn't compare to the old in my opinion.

@369Bandido 8 лет назад

love the Mike Tyson Punch Out Theme at the beginning. shoot. I was probably home, 7 yrs old, and 2100 miles away in Pa playing that game when you guys were at Wet n Wild on that day.

@almostparadise123 5 лет назад

yess this was my place!!!👍🏼👍🏼💜miss you wet n wild

@sweetipie1995 Год назад

Omg loved this place i miss you WnW on strip next 2 sahara hotel where i used to see the clock from der stuka ride.❤ so many memories

@GrowinupinSincity81 11 лет назад

Thank you for the kind Comment. Glad it brought you back. We always looked up to the Life Guards as the coolest teenagers we could ever dream to be. I have a Red tank top stashed away from the Gift Shop. Hope the New "Wet N' Wild" can recapture some of that Magic.

@shelbygilmore6595 2 года назад

My favorite was the lazy river and wave pool

@jamesritch5245 4 года назад

Man I miss this place. First time I went to Vegas in 1988 I was 10 and remembering when I seen this place how bad ass it was. Their was one ride their I'll never forget but can't remember the name of it to save my life!

@seangrady9542 6 лет назад

Gone... just like everything else in Vegas that is family friendly... :(

@Gx3Tri 11 лет назад

Man this is amazing! I can't wait for the next wetnwild, this might give me a glimpse of what the next one will be like. (Cross fingers!)

@kevjones5055 6 лет назад

this vid is so fn classic A+

@walkingonthemoon 9 лет назад

So cool... thanks for sharing!!!

@alexlozano6071 5 лет назад

My mom told me this wet n wild was way better than the new one

@woodencoasterfan 7 лет назад

We used to have the same slides at Wet'n Wild Orlando with the exception of a few like Mach 5 and the Black Hole that we had in Orlando. Sadly Wet'n Wild Orlando, the grandfather of all modern water parks, will close at the end of this year.

@Alexandra-se5dn 5 лет назад

So my mom was talking about getting season passes this year to wet n wild (which we did) and I wanted to see the old went n wild so I saw this video and now that I look at it litterly all the rides have change and are a lot safer now… but I kinda wish I got to go to this amazing water park in the 80’s but my mom was ten at the time xD

@alienbartender7110 3 года назад

If you were here ‘87 to ‘89, you likely bought passes, tickets, food, drinks, or trinkets from…; rented rafts and tubes from…; were instructed or saved (lol)… by me or my amazing fellow staff members 😁 Good times!

@austinpuppy 10 лет назад

The slide tubes that were there before royal flush were called HYDRO MANIAC

@GrowinupinSincity81 10 лет назад

You are absolutely corrrect, Jeremy. I could never remember the name of that 3-Headed Monster. Especially when it was converted to the "Royal Flush." Thanks for the memory.

@gabbysambienceofrivers4813 9 лет назад

Use to go with friends and family all the time, definitely miss those times!

@josephross7936 2 года назад

I grew up in Vegas so ever since I was 5 y.o. I remember going since 1988 every summer till it closed. In the old flash flood, the center was the "hydromanic"? I heard two urban legends, one a girl loss her top on the ride, and two some knock there head on a turn almost drown? Anyone know why the center slide closed in the 1990s?

@GrowinupinSincity81 2 года назад

Thank you for the comment, and the memories Joseph. You are right in that the triple-slide, just next to "Der Stuuka," was, in fact, called the "Hydromaniac." There was a center slide that dropped straight down. Once the two outlying slides were converted into the "Royal Flush" editions with the funnel shaped end to each loop, I believe that is when the center slide was removed, on account of the required space needed for those two funnels. I will try to pinpoint an exact season for that alteration. I believe the "Royal Flush" was a Mid-90s addition. Thanks again for commenting. This is prob my favorite video I have shared on this channel. RIP to the Original, and Greatest, "Wet n' Wild."

@JamesFTWin 12 лет назад

This place was fun as hell! Up until 2002 I went there every time I went to Vegas. I could definitely see why they closed it down though. By the time 2002 came around the place was old and ran down, it just kind of sat, so the decision to close it was a good one.

@ohdogwow2 7 лет назад

Digging the 8-bit music.

@GrowinupinSincity81 12 лет назад

Yes! It appears the long dreamed-of return will happen in 2013! Thrilled that the name "Wet N' Wild" will grace the new Water mecca in the SW Valley.

@alexdominguez2094 8 лет назад

I miss this wet n wild. The new one was alright but it wasn't better than this one. I hate driving all the way to Summerlin just to go to a lamer wet n wild. Besides this being the best wet n wild in Las Vegas also cowabunga bay was cool!

@alexg7214 Год назад

Bring this shit back!!!

@GrowinupinSincity81 11 лет назад

The gentleman working the "Rapids" ride? That's Amazing! Thanks for watching and I hope seeing your Pops was a great surprise.

@j.jmcquade5278 2 года назад

Memories

@stugots416 11 лет назад

Is that Mike Tysons punch out....love it!

@lvcsslacker 8 лет назад

I miss it...

@childwithit5248 6 лет назад

Its almost hard to realize majority of the kids in this video r all atleast in their late 40s or early 50s by now...

@Nihyre 3 года назад

Bubble Up was the best safety hazard

@TreeSlothSA 12 лет назад

Why would they close this place? It seemed awesome as hell

@Twistox45 3 года назад

I swear I remember that banzai banzai drop being almost 90°

@primomx1 8 лет назад

The best part of this park was the $4 beers, I used to get loaded and then pee on any pool 😂

@ilumalee 11 лет назад

That's my dad at 0:44

@jojr0322 4 года назад

Call wondering how he got there and how you found it

@sweetipie1995 Год назад

Say wat? He looks around 17 there

@PS3SuperXSayian360 12 лет назад

what's that theme song ?

@emptyspotlight 7 лет назад

sad tho, i passed by the original location around april of this year and it was sad seeing the area where the old wet n wild once was. i only heard it got closed but never saw the area where it used to be, since the parents weren't too huge about going to the strip. just for wet n wild only. now if only i could find footage of the scandia that used to be in vegas.

@Johnny5ive0 10 лет назад

Why did they remove the bubble up, the rumor that I always heard as a kid was that some little kid got stuck under it and drowned.

@GrowinupinSincity81 10 лет назад

The only ride I had ever heard to be a danger was when the Blue Niagara first was in operation. Riders were perpetually hitting their heads along the winding tube structure. For awhile, I believe they would provide a helmet to riders. Wish I had some pictures of this. The "Bubble Up" claiming victims like some freakish Horror creature? Have not heard of this.

@NickWebsUS 12 лет назад

I would assume so. I figured you were one of them... That's interesting.

@virginiagutierrez1451 9 лет назад

I miss this wet n wild... Nothing compare to the new one . I just don't know why they did take it off? :( how sad

@JCALRADIO 9 лет назад

Because of money

@woodencoasterfan 7 лет назад

Virginia Gutierrez actually the Wet'n Wild chain did take off for a bit but then ran into money problems and were forced to sell them off. It all began with Wet'n Wild Orlando in 1977, then branched out to Texas, Vegas, and a few other sites. Unfortunately, Wet'n Wild Orlando, the grandfather of all modern water parks, will close at the end of this year.

@virginiagutierrez1451 7 лет назад

+Themeparkfanatic how tho? when it was close to the strip and lots of tourists will come 2 Vegas =(

@Divisiblites702 11 лет назад

What happened to this wet n wild?

@SYCZ 10 лет назад

Btw this couldn't have been the 80s wet n wild didn't open to the public til 1990👍

@GrowinupinSincity81 10 лет назад

This is the Las Vegas Strip franchise that opened to the public in 1985 and closed, sadly, in 2004. Perhaps you are referring to the Orlando, FL, or Texas location.

@GrowinupinSincity81 10 лет назад

Check out some of my Wet N Wild Commercials from the Summer of 1995 as well as 1998.

@bbqnetwork8536 4 года назад

Where was it

@DeutschMatheLehrer 4 года назад

Directly south of Sahara/SLS

@PS3SuperXSayian360 12 лет назад

really? I was like in 5th grade when it closed, didn't know it was that run down.. best part of vegas honestly.. now it's just an dried up desert with only down town casino's to go to. well.. besides the circus dome.

@savannahewitt3102 10 лет назад

wasnt there moved here 2000 :(

@hookahdomaincom 12 лет назад

@TreeSlothSA It was waiting to be closed the day Bennet (The owner of the Sahara) died. The board members wanted to expand or sell the land. The land was rented to Wet and Wild by the owner of the Sahara. After he died I told my mom it will not stay open long. I think they lasted 1 more year. Sadly now that property is full of over priced Condos. This end of the strip is Ruined.

@jim9219771 8 лет назад

No video of the Willy Willy? Didn't Banzai Banzai get destroyed when Speed at the Sahara was toppled over by high winds, then it was torn down and the new Dragon's Den was built? I have pictures somewhere of the banner at the Wave Pool, in 2004, the last weekend before it closed. Said see you in 2006...what a joke. And yeah, the new Wet N Wild wwwaaayyy out on Fort Apache, could they have built it farther away?

@GrowinupinSincity81 8 лет назад

+Jim Mulholland Willy Willy opened in the Summer of '93. The first attraction following "The Black Hole" opening the Summer before that, in 1992. I agree with you, a water park, centrally located on the Las Vegas Strip, seems like a "no-brainer."

@GrowinupinSincity81 12 лет назад

Only knew a Steve & Steven Ptak, Father and Son. Perhaps Justin is related?