Famous Places that No Longer Exist (Picture Thread)

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.