Famous Places that No Longer Exist (Picture Thread)

The Cliff House, San Francisco

also, Sutro Baths, but I couldn't find the famous picture.

Ebbets Field
Built: 1913
Demolished: 1957
Significance: Former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Crystal Palace, London, England
Built: 1851
Architect: Joseph Paxton
Moved: 1852
Burnt: 1936
Significance: Site of the Great Exposition of 1851

Pennsylvania Station, New York City
Built: 1906-1910
Architect: McKim, Mead and White
Demolished: 1963
Significance: Railroad hub. Vincent Scully: "Through it one entered the city like a god. One now scuttles in now like a rat."

The Singer Tower, New York City
Built: 1908
Architect: Ernest Flagg
Demolished: 1966
Significance: For eighteen months, it was the tallest building in the world.

The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas Nevada
Built: 1952
Imploded: 1996
Significance: Favored locale of Rat Pack and others (Dean, Sammy, Frank, Howard Hughes) in Golden Age of Vegas

Seattle Kingdome
opened: March 27, 1976
imploded: March 26, 2000
Significance: Home of the Seattle Mariners (picture is from the final game), people who played there: Rolling Stones, U2

The 1939 New York World's Fair
Built: 1939
Architect (for the Trylon and Perisphere): Wallace Harrison and Andre Fouilhoux
Demolished: 1941
Significance: "The City Of The Future and The World Of Tomorrow"

http://stadiumpage.com/stadiumgraveyard/polocolor.JPG

The Wilshire Brown Derby, Los Angeles, CA
Built: 1926
Closed: 1980
Altered beyond recognition: 1996
Significance: It's a restaurant. And it looks like a big hat. Also, the owner, Bob Cobb, invented the Cobb Salad.

Frauenkirche Cathedral, Dresden, Germany
Built: 1743
Bombed: 1945
Significance: Cultural center of the Baroque period. J.S. Bach played there. Home of 35,000 to 135,000 German civilians at time of Allied bombing.

Griffith Stadium, 1911-1965, home of the Washington Senators 1911-1961

http://www.timbuckleyandfriends.com/Electric_Circus___The_Dom.jpg

I didn't just go there, I worked there! Off and on for over ten years. From back when it was Boybar. I gave that place the best years of my life, boo hoo hoo.

The Thunderbolt Roller Coaster
Coney Island, NY
Built: 1925
Last Use: 1983
Demolished: Nov. 2000
Appeared in Annie Hall, He Got Game, and Requiem for a Dream

http://www.gimelson.com/listings/4.jpg

Coney Island High

I love Jayne County's Barbra fro.

Now somebody find a Danceteria pic. Or Save the Robots.

Also -- wasn't Max's reopened as a restaurant? Is it still there?

http://www.wetlands-preserve.org/old/wetlandscolor2.gif

WHERE'S MY COOKIE?

That Murph Guide has me feeling all weepy and nostalgic. Is the Holiday Lounge on St. Mark's & 1st still open? I thought it was closed.

Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom
San Fran, CA
Opened: 1966 (?)
Last Show: Dec. 31, 1978 (?)
Significance: The Band's last concert, as documented in The Last Waltz. The Grateful Dead, KISS, and The Sex Pistols all played here.

http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/dixie_square_mall/dixie_sq_21.jpg

Dixie Square Mall
Built: ??
Abandoned: 1979
Significance: The mall Jake and Elwood drove through in "The Blues Brothers" movie.

still exists but is being totally rebuilt so those classic Twin Towers are gone forever :(

ah who cares, it was always a dump anyway ;D

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CTHAMparking.html

The Ghost Parking Lot
Hamden, CT
Cars Entombed: 1978
Cars Removed: 2002 (?I'll have to check next time I go home...)
Significance: Not much, admittedly, but I know it appeared on Ripley's Believe It or Not in the early 80s and that's good enough for me.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

http://www.nectec.or.th/courseware/gerneral/babylon.jpg

Other Seven Wonders, from memory:

1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
2. Temple of Artmis at Ephesius
3. Colossus of Rhodes
4. Lighthouse at Alexandria
5. Pyramids of the Giza Plataeu
6. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
7. The Mausoleum at Helicarnasus

(Apologies for spelling errors. However, I am damn proud of myself for having pulled those from the dim recesses of my brain - I've no idea how long I've known that list. Scary.)

The Valley of Hetch-Hetchy
Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
One Ridge from Yosemite National Park
Created: By Mother Nature over Millions of Years
Dammed by the City of San Francisco, with the permission of the U.S. Congress via the Raker Act of 1913, to increase the water-supply for the rapidly growing city - Dam completed in 1923.
John Muir, the photographer and naturalist and first president of the Sierra Club, described the Valley as being an almost exact replica or "sister" of the Yosemite Valley. In fact, he said in his journals that he thought Hetch-Hetchy was more beautiful than Yosemite. He fought the dam project and lost. There is a movement to remove the dam and allow nature to restore Hetch-Hetchy to its former glory over a span of many years.

"Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man." -- John Muir

(Check out some of the band and comic artist photos)

Here's a shot of the short-lived Damage Manual (featuring poor balding Geordie from Killing Joke on guitar) at since-closed-&-gutted Wetlands Preserve on Laight Street down in TriBeCa. Definetely a hotbed of hippydippy shenanigans, but a great performance space that occaissionally played host to some great shows. I miss it, I do.

Stari Most
Mostar, Bosnia
Built: 1566
Architect: Mimar Hajrudin
Destroyed: 1993
UNESCO world heritage site destroyed by Bosnian-Croat forces. Being reconstructed though!

At the same time, when I look at the photos I also think how disgusted I was by the public outcry at their destruction, when so much of the human-rights abuses and the degradation and destruction of women by the same regime caused so little furor. Makes one wonder about the state of human compassion and priorities.

the Pink & White Terraces at Rotorua, destroyed in the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886

Agreed, but there are are many fewer cranes now than just a few months ago. It will never look like it did, but apparently no one has told the Germans they should scorn Stahl und Glas artificiality. I was at a film there last night (Goodbye Lenin -- you gotta see this, fantastic) and everything was packed with people. The cinemas were sold out, the restaurants were busy, even the somewhat unambitious Arkade--unimaginative shopping mall--was bustling. There are still empty stretches waiting for development, and the people are probably bankers or home de(s)pot employees, but they're out in force. It's rather cheerful.

Broad St Station 1875-1976

For I'm Passing Open Windows.

The Euston Arch, the original entrance to Euston station. Built in the 1840s, demolished when the station was rebuilt in the 60s.

Pre-WW2 Rotterdam, bombed into oblivion on 11 May 1940.

St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.

The Gilded Balloon theatre, Edinburgh. Burned down in December 2002.

Les Halles. Paris's vast 800 year old food market, named the 'Belly of Paris' by Zola, demolished 1971.

The Derby Racer, Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland
Park incorporated: 1894
Closed: 1969

**The carved archway entrance, declared a historic Cleveland landmark in 1973, is the only restored feature that remains at the site.**

Note the lovely high rises in the bkgd.

Martin Skidmore's suggestion - the Bastille.

A Mile High and a Mile from my house, you can see Invesco Field under construction in the corner.

http://www.GreatBuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_wtc_mya_WTC_finished2.150.jpg

The Hacienda. Converted to flats with the slogan "The party's over, you can come home".

Luna Park, the legendary Coney Island amusement facility which existed between 1903 and 1944.

-Alan

The RAF Flyingdale 'golf balls' in North Yorkshire. US early warning and listening centre now replaced by a pyramid construction. The US wants to use the site as part of its Missile Defence Programme.

(The Court of Honor at) the World's Columbian Exposition - Chicago, 1893
Built: 1892
Destroyed or Removed: 1894-5 (except the Palace of Fine Arts, rebuilt as the Museum of Science and Industry)
Significance: Frederick Law Olmsted and Daniel Burnham's "White City" for the fair was a source of the City Beautiful movement in Chicago and America. Part of the first World's Fair with a separate amusement area, containing the first ferris wheel, visited by 27 million people. Competition for the fair led a New York writer to dub Chicago the "windy city."

They concreted it over. I think they were expecting masses of people to turn up looking for Jarvis Cocker at the millenium

greenspun server for "I Love Music" and "I Love Everything"
Built: mid-1990s; occupied by early 2001
Abandoned: late 2002
Significance: magnetic power to attract mentalists; reliable springboard for discussion of ass size

Opened: 1989, as The Sound Factory; closed in 1995; re-opened 1997 as Twilo
Shut for building code violations: 2001
Significance: best sound system in the world, largest disco ball in the world, home to Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia

The Duchess of York, Leeds.
Closed March 2000 and turned into a Hugo Boss shop. Someone will fry in hell for that.

Nice to see a key Jimmy Corrigan site as is.

Lounge Ax
Chicago, IL
shut down in 2000, or so.

Mister Toad's Wild Ride
Disney World, Florida
in 1998, they turned it into a winnie the pooh ride... *sigh*

Royal Arch Dundee.
Built; 1840's
Demolished; 1960's to make way for Tay road Bridege
Significance; Gateway to Dundee for the numerous mariners who used the port.

Buildings on left now detroyed and replaced with

http://www.worldtour-of-scotland.com/tour/images-tour/1308-inverness-ugly.jpg

By the way, is there a London or L.A. equivalent of Lost New York?

http://content.lib.utah.edu/Photo_Arch_Three/image/44038172112003_p0813n67.jpg

Glen Canyon, Southern Utah
Built: over a very long time
Architect: The Colorado River
Drowned: 1963, by "Lake" Powell, following construction of Glen Canyon Dam
Significance: "The Place No One Knew," the second Hetch Hetchy

"There was a time when, in my search for essences, I concluded that the canyonland country has no heart. I was wrong. The canyonlands did have a heart, a living heart, and that heart was Glen Canyon, and the golden, flowing Colorado River." - Edward Abbey, "The Damnation of a Canyon"

Also see, the group devoted to decommissioning the dam.

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/lovecanal/aerial_photos/aerial9.jpg

A certain neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY
Built: From ca. 1953 to ca. 1955 *
Architect: Unknown, although the land was owned by the Niagara Falls Board of Education, which bought it from Hooker Chemical Co. for $1
Demolished: From ca. 1978 to ca. 1980 **
Significance: The world's most infamous residential neighborhood

*: "Built" dates refer to the homes, schools, etc. that made up Love Canal, the residential area. Love Canal itself was first dug out in 1892 and abandoned as a project several years later. After a couple of decades as a recreational area, it was transformed into a chemical dumping area in the 1920s and dumping continued until the late 1950s.

**: "Demolished" refers to the area that is depicted in this aerial photograph. These specific homes and this one school were bulldozed over and fenced in after it was classified a "containment area" by the EPA. Other homes which bordered this area were evacuated, but were not destroyed or fenced off. Some of these evacuated homes are now being repopulated by the Niagara Falls Board of Education, much to the consternation of the neighborhood's former residents.

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/images/marquee.jpg

The Marquee Club (original location)
London, England
Legendary club where The Who, The Yardbirds, really just about everyone got their start.

http://www.gangsofnewyork.com

Select "take the tour" from the "five points" menu. Man, I could listen to Martin Scorcese talk all day.

Steeplechase Park, Coney Island

Bam Citadel, Iran
fell down in an earthquake this year.

Welcome to....Carthage!

http://www.artinruins.com/arch/rip/jamestown/index.php#

Opened: 1940
Last Used: 1992
Demolished: 4/18/06

playland, San Francisco
opened: 1928
closed: 1972

ihttp://www.saveastroworld.com/park1968.jpg

Opened: 1968
Closed: 2005
Demolished shortly thereafter

old man in the mountian

before and after

boo

Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, PA
Opened: April 4, 1971
Architect: Hugh Stubbins & Associates
Imploded: March 21, 2004

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040322/wd3.jpg

Significance: Home of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Eagles. The Phillies won their ONLY World Series here.
Where Eisbär saw his first MLB baseball game (in 1978!) and his ONLY NFL game (in 1982)

kowloon walled city
http://stashpocket.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/kowloon_walled_city_hong_kong.jpg

http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads2/2007/08/kowloon_walled_city_hong_kong_gotham_batman2.jpg

Balinese Room, Galveston Texas

http://onthepatio.typepad.com/on_the_patio/images/balinese_room.JPG

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2363261829_09f4c5fed6.jpg?v=0

http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/10/Graphics/Balinese.jpg

Legendary nightclub and illegal gambling establishment immortalized in song by ZZ Top. Casualty of Hurricane Ike.

Astroworld again, plus the Astro Hall

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/83598960_be7e403037.jpg?v=0

I'm glad that postcard features my favorite part of the old park:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/astroworld-shitpile.jpg

It was this awesome playland where everything was like the last panel of "The Garden of Earthly Delights".

Am I right in assuming the ZZ Top song "Balinese" is about that place?

I was coming here expecting to see a photo of yankee stadium.

Hours of fun:
http://www.lostparks.com/

Also,:
http://www.yesterland.com/

i was gonna put some some stuff about circus world, but that lost parks site will serve.

http://www.greatatlantic.co.uk/wildsideofbritain/images/pier.jpg
The pier at Weston-Super-Mare

Kowloon Walled City looks amazing. I guess most of China probably qualifies for this thread by now.

I guess technically, Marineland still exists, although it's not the same thing it once was:

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/959/90051098.JPG
http://goflorida.about.com/library/graphics/marineland1964.jpg

http://www.fifa.com/mm/photo/classic/stadiums/wembley_stadion_england_196638_6191_sq_large.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.yarwood/wembley_1991.jpg

Wembley Stadium
was in London.
Built: 1923
Demolished: 2003
Significance: The home of English football for 80 years. Held every FA Cup final until 2000, the World Cup final in 1966 and innumerable music and sports events until it was demolished for a brand spanking new stadium with a swanky arch.

Kowloon Walled City wasn't quite really part of China (or part of anywhere) while it was knocked down.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/3265912099_b3ab71217c_o.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10beijing.html?_r=1&hp

Oops.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7840/09beijing600iw8.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/09beijing600iw8.jpg/1/w600.png

^that really deserves it's own category: buildings that almost were but then weren't.

Pennsylvania Station, New York City
Built: 1906-1910
Architect: McKim, Mead and White
Demolished: 1963
Significance: Railroad hub. Vincent Scully: "Through it one entered the city like a god. One now scuttles in now like a rat."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, February 21, 2003 8:13 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

This one never ceases to sadden me. I know it was expensive to maintain, but it's not like it was just any old historic landmark, it was the gateway to the city. The value of something like that seems immeasurable.

http://mapx.map.vgd.gov.lv/geo3/Ukr/_Izmantotie%20Atteli/Arzemes/Guaira_augsa.jpg

bastards

http://www.chethams.org.uk/img/belle_vue_zoo_guide_1952.jpg
and
http://www.rollercoastermayhem.com/bellevuebook3.jpg
oh and
http://www.chethams.org.uk/img/belle_vue_circus_1957.jpg

http://mapx.map.vgd.gov.lv/geo3/Ukr/_Izmantotie%20Atteli/Arzemes/Guaira_augsa.jpg

^^^ explain

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-07/41030201.jpg

Riverview Park
Chicago, IL
Opened: 1903
Demolished: 1967

My first apartment in Chicago was a block away from what was once the grounds of an amusement park. Now it's a large strip mall (Blockbuster, Toys R Us, etc.), and it kind of boggles my mind that there were once roller coasters there, right in the middle of the city.

i also want an explanation re: waterfall

and kowloon walled city ownes this thread

*kick*

http://www.spags.org/spags1980.jpg

http://dlib.cwmars.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/shrewsbury&CISOPTR=6

http://www.worcestermass.com/places/images/user-image-1181698648.jpg

http://dlib.cwmars.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/shrewsbury&CISOPTR=7

WHERE WAS/IS THE GODDAMN WATERFALL

Guaíra Falls, flooded during construction of Itaipu Dam. Used to be on the Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/theblob.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/twinteeps.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/hatnboots.jpg
real seattle

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/pancakes.jpg

;-)

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~bdo206/kims.jpg

multiple xp.

yeah, salto das sete quedas aka guaira. was largest waterfall on earth in terms of flow and now it sits silently under a reservoir ;_;

sambos still exists, btw

Hannahs Pies, Ormskirk. RIP.

http://www.leicesterchronicler.com/granby_ticket.jpg

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/assortedaircraftpics/pics/Shea%20Stadium.jpg

lol

Hanging Gardens of Babylon:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PgfRBZetNGE/SZ24fpLAn7I/AAAAAAAAAhI/FqCzfqXTdL4/s1600-h/corbusier+philips.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Pavilion

http://randomknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/philipsexpo58.jpg

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/521/197/20071222/dyn005_original_921_574_pjpeg_2521197_a44bd4a2fc805e9e2101dcb4141c6e00.jpg

Tower of Babel in the background there too xxxp

http://www.shiftyparadigms.org/images/Festivals/skylon.jpg
The Skylon, Festival of Britain, London
Built: 1951
Demolished: 1952 by the tories!
Significance: Ohh, loads. Churchill didn't like it - far too modern and socialist for him. Londoners (according to my parents) loved it and indeed the whole Festival of Britain site - but they were generally more modern and socialist than Churchill. Thankfully the Festival Hall is still there. There are (were) plans afoot to rebuild it.

And this is what you can to the left of the Skylon - the Dome of Discovery - also demolished.
http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/domeofd.jpg

95.

http://builtmanhattan.tumblr.com/post/10038790054/listicle-without-commentary-destroyed-new-york-city

http://www.strabrecht.nl/sectie/ckv/08/Romantiek/Ingenieur/Glas/1.1_Outshoorn_C,_Paleis_voor_Volksvlijt_Amsterdam_1858-64.jpg

Paleis voor Volksvlijt.
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Built between 1855 and 1864.
Destroyed by fire in 1929.

Currently at the location:

http://www.betawerelden.nl/media/uploads/DNB.jpg

That Skylon - the Dome of Discovery reminds me of the Evoluon, which still stands!

http://www.events.nl/images/dynamic/highlight/evoluon_450.png

http://www.elektor.nl/Uploads/2008/11/B03-Evoluon-outside-night.jpg

http://comeheretome.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/swastika1960s.jpg

Swastika Laundry, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. The company operated from 1912 to 1987 or thereabouts, after which that building disappeared. They had a big chimney, with swastikas on it, which apparently still stands, but without the swastikas.

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