Famous Places that No Longer Exist (Picture Thread)

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