Famous Places that No Longer Exist (Picture Thread)

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.

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.

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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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