This thread is beautiful and very creepy and almost unbearably poignant all at once.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Monday, 4 May 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
U_U
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 May 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Six Flags New Orleans, in the Ninth Ward. The pictures of the flooded park after Katrina are astonishing, but these are more recent:
http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/main-st-six-flags-orleans.jpg
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/six-flags-cool-zone-new-orleans.jpg
http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/six-flags-joker.jpg
― dulce est desipere in loco (Euler), Monday, 4 May 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I went to the Santa's Village outside of Chicago all the time when I was growing up!
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 May 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently Santa's Villages were the first franchised theme parks in the US.
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that my interest in this sort of thing started when I went to Asbury Park for the first time.
http://i44.tinypic.com/nn9obl.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Also from the Asbury Park, NJ boardwalk:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2nasdaq.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
One in Japan called Utopia
http://i42.tinypic.com/2vulxlv.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
More Utopia:
http://i42.tinypic.com/w2mu52.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Again in Japan Gulliver in the front and Mt. Fuji in the back
http://i43.tinypic.com/w1u1io.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow - this one is awesome. Russian themed park in Japan that was only open for 6 moths.
http://i40.tinypic.com/25p3492.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/10wmulu.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
that gulliver/mount fuji thing is crazy.
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 4 May 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
6 moths.
The people who financed the park started out thinking it was a good idea, but soon they saw the light.
― snoball, Monday, 4 May 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Waterpark in Barcelona
http://i40.tinypic.com/53wmly.jpghttp://i44.tinypic.com/vgjzw2.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, isn't the Gulliver one amazing?!
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
S. Korea again
http://i40.tinypic.com/wb8l92.jpghttp://i42.tinypic.com/ejvajd.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
In China:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2wr166s.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I may actually have nightmares about this thing in Japan
http://i39.tinypic.com/qzgj8h.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
great thread
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 4 May 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok, this may or may not be abandoned but I couldn't resist posting this slide from a children's playground in Poland
http://i44.tinypic.com/2ur5z7t.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, really?!
Jack Rabbit roller coaster Station - Idora Park, Ohio
http://i43.tinypic.com/30cc8iu.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 4 May 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
It always amazes me how these things just close down and just get... left there to rot and grow over. Surely the land is valuable or something, at least in some cases?
― 65daysofsugban (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I just started a thread about Dadipark without realising you started this thread yesterday. I heard about Dadipark through work. Koinkydink. I'll post some pictures here now.
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://silentuk.com/dadipark/images/img_0981.jpg
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lost-places.nl/01/015%20dadipark/images/05.jpg
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lost-places.nl/01/015%20dadipark/images/09.jpg
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lost-places.nl/01/015%20dadipark/images/23.jpg
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Where have I seen this face before (reproduced somewhere, or in a movie or something. And why, at the same time, does Asbury park seem extremely familiar, yet I can't remember what it is? I suspect it may be skateboarding related).
― Edward Saroyan, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/8191353-lg.jpg
Edward, wax?
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hullabaloo.be/fotolog/dadipark09.jpg
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Scott just said, "Maria, didn't you know somebody else just started a thread today about abandoned amusement parks" but I haven't gone on ILE today except to post pictures of Dadipark. WEIRD.― Maria :D, Monday, May 4, 2009 10:07 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Maria :D, Monday, May 4, 2009 10:07 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark
Weird is right!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that picture is awesome
also the gullivers/fuji pic.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Surely the land is valuable or something, at least in some cases?
A lot of the time the land isn't valuable at all, because it would take a lot of work to make it flat enough to build proper buildings on (as opposed to wooden barns). Also I suspect that some of these short lived parks are more tax write-offs than actual proper business propositions intended to make money.
― snoball, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread just keeps on giving! Gulliver and that weird white smiley face over the road are fantastic.
ENBB, do you know which waterpark in Barcelona that is? I might've actually been there (when the water was still flowing, I must add)
― Krapp's lesser-known First Tape (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wot no pictures of New Forest Lapland?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
No. You'll just have to imagine a picture of a disgruntled parent drop kicking an elf...
― snoball, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that the Fantasy Farm poster still calls Memorial Day Decoration Day!
Edward, that face is Tillie.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i been to whalom park
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.roadtripmemories.com/images/roadmaveness/lucian/pinehill/holyland09.JPG
holyland usa, waterbury connecticut - cheapo biblical site recreations misterminded by eccentric local lawyer - has a lol hueg cross u can see from the highway
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/holy/images/CTWATsphinx.jpg
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe that a repurposed bust of washington
I wonder what Libertyland (Memphis, closed 2005) looks like now.
― resistance is feudal (WmC), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
since it's relatively recent, not nearly as sad as a lot of the others on this thread:
http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=362&size=550x550_mb&ptp_photo_id=715859
― nashville - spiritual home of the cougar (will), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2465834428_f89dfe8999.jpg?v=0
― nashville - spiritual home of the cougar (will), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2465824284_1c6ee58227.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/324579518_aaebe03c23.jpg?v=0
― nashville - spiritual home of the cougar (will), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ Still pretty great.
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, May 5, 2009 9:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmar
When I saw that was in MA I got all excited until I read the part about the ruins being demolished. :-(
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― Edward Saroyan, Monday, May 4, 2009 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"Steeplechase, like the rest of Coney, was a different world at night. Here we see the circle swings on the left, the Pavilion of Fun in the middle and the parachute drop behind it. The Pavilion of Fun was built in 1907 after the park burned to the ground. George Tilyou put many of the rides (the Human Roulette Wheel, the Hoop-La, etc.) indoors, making Steeplechase impervious to the weather. The very top of the pavilion reads, "George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park." The middle of the pavilion reads "Pavilion of Fun. Geo. C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park." The large face on the building was the park's mascot and could be found all over the park."
http://www.tangento.net/images/Coney-Steeplechase.jpg
I imagine most of these parks failed because of horrible character design.
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boblo-island-abandoned-amusement-park?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzk0MThmZWI5OTZjMTI2MDFlNl83MTE0NDU1OTkzXzFlYzFmYmVjZDVfay5qcGciXSxbInAiLCJ0aHVtYiIsIngzOTA-Il0sWyJwIiwiY29udmVydCIsIi1xdWFsaXR5IDkxIC1hdXRvLW9yaWVudCJdXQ/7114455993_1ec1fbecd5_k.jpg
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzk0MThmZWI5OTZjMTI2MDFlNl8xMDc5MDk2NDc4Nl9kYWM5NDE4YWY5X2suanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCJ4MzkwPiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0/10790964786_dac9418af9_k.jpg
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
not quite an amusement park tbf but holy shit check out burj al abas, this abandoned castle-themed housing development in turkey
https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c3f4be1b492cb1ad35e4af5-1920-1280.jpghttps://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c3f602f7196711e1a38f736-750-500.jpghttps://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Findigodergisi.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F11%2Fburj-al-babas-projesi-mudurnu-villa-sato-1.jpg&f=1https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-pro.elsalvador.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FBurj-Al-Babas.jpg&f=1https://tele1.com.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/burj-al-babas.jpg
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
!!!!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
amazing that these clone-stamped mcmansioncastles somehow failed to set the turkish housing market alight
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
The proportions are so strange.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
Reminds me of those Chinese imitation euro towns no one would actually live in.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
Appropriately, this thread is filled with dead links and abandoned websites.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 9 April 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link