An obviously cool thing about these abandoned parks is that they're outside. So if you're the type of person who likes to poke around in derelict structures, you have an easy approach and getaway as opposed to breaking into an abandoned coat factory or something. Also probably less chance of coming into contact with toxic chemicals and building materials.
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Fun N Wheels, I-Drive, Orlando
http://www.pjchmiel.com/photo/elements/funnwheels1.jpg
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, http://www.lostparks.com/
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
not limited to amusement parks, but there's some good stuff in this thread:
Famous Places that No Longer Exist (Picture Thread)
― andrew m., Monday, 12 July 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://jalopnik.com/5638285/americas-abandoned-auto-dealerships/gallery/
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcja8UBtXdk
― rent, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The project the beauty of abandoned has nice pics from abandoned waterparks and others
the link:
http://www.polviladoms.com/
― houdini, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I came here to post that NOLA Six Flags video two posts up.
I think it is lovely/creepy.
― Independent contractor Who manages a Road Show exclusive to Sams Club. (Nijoli), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought this may be of interest, though the sad music is kind of ott:
http://gizmodo.com/#!5799611/a-tour-of-an-abandoned-amusement-park-in-americas-heartland
― champagne hippies trying to recapture their youth (Whitey on the Moon), Saturday, 7 May 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice, thanks!
This remains one of my favourite ILX threads ever.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 7 May 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
Whitey that was p neat.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
This one is still just amazing to me
http://i43.tinypic.com/w1u1io.jpg
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
also, this one
http://i43.tinypic.com/25kgzo5.jpg
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
becauseofthewang
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah ok can we talk about this? wtf is that thing holing?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
his nut
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
haha oh shi...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
more Six Flags Nola, 75 hueg good pix
http://www.lovethesepics.com/2011/05/creepy-crusty-crumbling-illegal-tour-of-abandoned-six-flags-new-orleans-75-pics/
― shannon HOOS of blind melSTEEN (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zAKKfl.jpg
― shannon HOOS of blind melSTEEN (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
possibly some of these repeat but theyre all amazing:
http://gawker.com/5817544/the-overgrown-squalor-of-new-orleans-abandoned-amusement-park/gallery/1
― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Sunday, 3 July 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Sunny! A good addition to this compendium.
What fascinates me most is how these places remain in their decayed state for so long. Decades sometimes. Aren't there any kids completely ravishing the place at night? Or looters stripping the whole park of valuable iron? This never ceases to amaze me.
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 3 July 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Storybook Land - in Woodbridge, Virginia near Washington, D.C.
Opened in 1959, closed 1981, about a half hour drive from my childhood home
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles49784.jpg
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblva02.jpg
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvamap.html
Great article about it from 1995, but wish it had all the haunting pictures of the ruined remains that were in the print edition. I found some current photos online though:
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvanow01.jpg
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvanow03.jpg
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall....
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvanow04.jpg
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvanow06.jpg
― Lee626, Monday, 4 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
the map that was given to guests:
― Lee626, Monday, 4 July 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure why I can't get that link to work; here's the URL:
― Lee626, Monday, 4 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvanow05.jpg
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/sblvanow02.jpg
― Lee626, Monday, 4 July 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3pm9xyKfY1r53h40o1_500.jpg
― go to party leather (ENBB), Monday, 28 January 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
No-one mentioned Blobbyland yet?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/15/article-1220390-06D1E157000005DC-894_634x448.jpg
More here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220390/Pictured-The-abandoned-ruins-Mr-Blobby-theme-park-ravers-trash-site.html
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 28 January 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh God. Considering that Mr. Blobby is pretty much the scariest thing to ever exist in the world an I simply cannot handle an abandoned Blobby theme park. At all.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Monday, 28 January 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
how did this even happen
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1902952_10154023382075707_1111416002_n.jpg
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Sunday, 30 March 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
That's beautiful. Abandoned Russian waterpark:
http://www.thecoolist.com/abandoned-places-10-creepy-beautiful-modern-ruins/abandoned-russian-waterpark_2/
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Sunday, 30 March 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
This combines two of my favorite things, abandoned spaces and 70s style honeymoon hotels which I guess could be considered fun parks of a sort.
http://galleries.gothamistllc.com/asset/52c1f9e107fa4e681b780e4f/mobile/PennHills-11.jpghttp://33.media.tumblr.com/8efea57695e4ca9c868ac4bed5507de0/tumblr_n6czdtsjG71rcq8imo1_500.jpg
more abandoned love here
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 30 June 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I love it! That particular bathtub makes me want to barf so hard though. Tile squicks me out. I love those cabins though.
Reminds me of this resort:
http://gothamist.com/2014/05/21/kutshers_photos.php#photo-1
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
These cabins:
http://galleries.gothamistllc.com/asset/52c1f9e107fa4e681b780e4f/mobile/PennHills-25.jpg
Would totally shack up there.
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
ENBB -- my friends and I are going to explore P3nn H1lls this Saturday!!!!
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
OMG JEALOUS
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
fyi:
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10299955_10103998523398939_2462202189485741174_n.jpghttps://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10487370_10103998524077579_2905247398861987058_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10421355_10103998523154429_4157596356634219506_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10440750_10103998523229279_7991780633974082438_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10458638_10103998524257219_8083044456667964812_n.jpg
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 6 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Mirrored ceiling? Yes!
― how's life, Sunday, 6 July 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Did the bed rotate? Tell me that the bed rotated, Matt Helm style.I don't get the big room full of furniture. Was it so worthless that the owners didn't even bother having a clearance sale?
― Welcome to the dessert of the real (snoball), Sunday, 6 July 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Dude, shit was just ABANDONED, incl like hundreds and hundreds of receipts and applications w/ CC#'s and SSN's and the like...
and no bed did not rotate :(
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 6 July 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Ironically, a heart is just about the worst tub shape for a couple that likes to bathe together - the point between the two lobes gets in the way if you each lean against one side, and your legs and feet get squashed at the other end. (facing the opposite direction works even worse). You usually wind up cuddling on one side of the heart, which just wastes a ton of water on the other side. A simple rectangle or oval is much more comfortable.
I'm intrigued at that player piano though - i've never seen one with a mechanism so small it fits into a spinet. Usually player pianos are very tall with the roll stretched out vertically in the center.
http://galleries.gothamistllc.com/asset/52c1f9e107fa4e681b780e4f/mobile/PenHils-21.jpg
― Lee626, Sunday, 6 July 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
This thread is the best
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Monday, 7 July 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
TBH, I am a little concerned about your level of familiarity with the heart-shaped tub.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 7 July 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
x-post :D
I've only once stayed at a hotel with a heart-shaped tub, when we were somewhere in New England for a few days and the only room they had available was the honeymoon suite, with a big red heart-shaped Jacuzzi right in the bedroom. But i've tried out a few others in bathroom-renovation showrooms and never liked them. And if you think they look tacky in a '70s motel, imagine how they'd look in your home.
― Lee626, Monday, 7 July 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
I have to go to this thing!
http://roadtrippers.kinja.com/americas-creepiest-abandoned-amusement-park-to-open-fo-1448819785/
― DonkeyTeeth, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
OH MAN
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
I found out recently that the PRC government spent $100 million to build a China theme park in Florida that closed in 2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid_China_(Florida)
http://i.imgur.com/FeV0KUG.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
I have read about this. Heading to Florida tonight. I wonder where it is . . . hmmmmmm.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
They've demolished / are in the process of demolishing it apparently
― 龜, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
https://roadtrippers.com/blog/drone-discovers-abandoned-renaissance-faire-deep-virginia-woods
http://i.imgur.com/98oRQYV.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYWe0DO4oNk
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link