I am always interested in pictures of places (reasonably famous or significant in some way, that is) that are no longer around. So, if you've got one, please post it here! For example:
http://www.jerseycityonline.com/rstadium/76c42-09.jpg
Roosevelt Stadiumwas in Jersey City, NJBuilt: 1937Demolished: 1986Significance: One of the big arena venues of the 70s on the East Coast...Clapton, Pink Floyd, probably countless other big names played it.
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)
The Cliff House, San Francisco
also, Sutro Baths, but I couldn't find the famous picture.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 22 February 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)
Ebbets FieldBuilt: 1913Demolished: 1957Significance: Former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 February 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)
The Crystal Palace, London, EnglandBuilt: 1851 Architect: Joseph PaxtonMoved: 1852Burnt: 1936Significance: Site of the Great Exposition of 1851
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)
Pennsylvania Station, New York CityBuilt: 1906-1910Architect: McKim, Mead and WhiteDemolished: 1963Significance: Railroad hub. Vincent Scully: "Through it one entered the city like a god. One now scuttles in now like a rat."
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)
The Singer Tower, New York CityBuilt: 1908Architect: Ernest FlaggDemolished: 1966Significance: For eighteen months, it was the tallest building in the world.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)
The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas NevadaBuilt: 1952Imploded: 1996Significance: Favored locale of Rat Pack and others (Dean, Sammy, Frank, Howard Hughes) in Golden Age of Vegas
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)
Seattle Kingdomeopened: March 27, 1976 imploded: March 26, 2000Significance: Home of the Seattle Mariners (picture is from the final game), people who played there: Rolling Stones, U2
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)
The 1939 New York World's FairBuilt: 1939Architect (for the Trylon and Perisphere): Wallace Harrison and Andre FouilhouxDemolished: 1941Significance: "The City Of The Future and The World Of Tomorrow"
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)
http://stadiumpage.com/stadiumgraveyard/polocolor.JPG
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)
The Wilshire Brown Derby, Los Angeles, CA Built: 1926Closed: 1980Altered beyond recognition: 1996Significance: It's a restaurant. And it looks like a big hat. Also, the owner, Bob Cobb, invented the Cobb Salad.
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 22 February 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)
Frauenkirche Cathedral, Dresden, GermanyBuilt: 1743Bombed: 1945Significance: Cultural center of the Baroque period. J.S. Bach played there. Home of 35,000 to 135,000 German civilians at time of Allied bombing.
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)
Griffith Stadium, 1911-1965, home of the Washington Senators 1911-1961
― James Blount, Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount, Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.timbuckleyandfriends.com/Electric_Circus___The_Dom.jpg
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)
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.
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)
The Thunderbolt Roller CoasterConey Island, NYBuilt: 1925Last Use: 1983Demolished: Nov. 2000Appeared in Annie Hall, He Got Game, and Requiem for a Dream
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.gimelson.com/listings/4.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)
Coney Island High
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)
I love Jayne County's Barbra fro.
Now somebody find a Danceteria pic. Or Save the Robots.
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:49 (twenty-three years ago)
Also -- wasn't Max's reopened as a restaurant? Is it still there?
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.wetlands-preserve.org/old/wetlandscolor2.gif
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)
WHERE'S MY COOKIE?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:07 (twenty-three years ago)
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.
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)
Bill Graham's Winterland BallroomSan Fran, CAOpened: 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.
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/dixie_square_mall/dixie_sq_21.jpg
Dixie Square MallBuilt: ??Abandoned: 1979Significance: The mall Jake and Elwood drove through in "The Blues Brothers" movie.
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)
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
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CTHAMparking.html
The Ghost Parking LotHamden, CTCars Entombed: 1978Cars 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.
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)
Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, PAOpened: April 4, 1971Architect: Hugh Stubbins & AssociatesImploded: 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)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)
kowloon walled cityhttp://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
― logged in (cozwn), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 00:43 (seventeen years ago)
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.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 00:51 (seventeen years ago)
Astroworld again, plus the Astro Hall
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/83598960_be7e403037.jpg?v=0
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)
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".
― so glitchy (kenan), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)
Am I right in assuming the ZZ Top song "Balinese" is about that place?
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:06 (seventeen years ago)
I was coming here expecting to see a photo of yankee stadium.
― Drinking Island is inside every one of us (Ed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
Hours of fun:http://www.lostparks.com/
― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)
Also,:http://www.yesterland.com/
― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)
i was gonna put some some stuff about circus world, but that lost parks site will serve.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.greatatlantic.co.uk/wildsideofbritain/images/pier.jpgThe pier at Weston-Super-Mare
Kowloon Walled City looks amazing. I guess most of China probably qualifies for this thread by now.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)
I guess technically, Marineland still exists, although it's not the same thing it once was:
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/959/90051098.JPGhttp://goflorida.about.com/library/graphics/marineland1964.jpg
― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.fifa.com/mm/photo/classic/stadiums/wembley_stadion_england_196638_6191_sq_large.jpghttp://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.yarwood/wembley_1991.jpg
Wembley Stadiumwas in London.Built: 1923Demolished: 2003Significance: The home of English football for 80 years. Held every FA Cup final until 2000, the World Cup final in 1966 and innumerable music and sports events until it was demolished for a brand spanking new stadium with a swanky arch.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)
Kowloon Walled City wasn't quite really part of China (or part of anywhere) while it was knocked down.
― ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/3265912099_b3ab71217c_o.jpg
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Monday, 9 February 2009 13:49 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10beijing.html?_r=1&hp
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Monday, 9 February 2009 18:01 (seventeen years ago)
Oops.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7840/09beijing600iw8.jpghttp://img18.imageshack.us/img18/09beijing600iw8.jpg/1/w600.png
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Monday, 9 February 2009 18:02 (seventeen years ago)
^that really deserves it's own category: buildings that almost were but then weren't.
― Super Cub, Monday, 9 February 2009 20:33 (seventeen years ago)
― 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.
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 February 2009 20:41 (seventeen years ago)
http://mapx.map.vgd.gov.lv/geo3/Ukr/_Izmantotie%20Atteli/Arzemes/Guaira_augsa.jpg
bastards
― or something, Monday, 9 February 2009 23:35 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.chethams.org.uk/img/belle_vue_zoo_guide_1952.jpgandhttp://www.rollercoastermayhem.com/bellevuebook3.jpgoh andhttp://www.chethams.org.uk/img/belle_vue_circus_1957.jpg
― not_goodwin, Monday, 9 February 2009 23:40 (seventeen years ago)
^^^ explain
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 9 February 2009 23:41 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-07/41030201.jpg
Riverview Park Chicago, ILOpened: 1903Demolished: 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.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 9 February 2009 23:59 (seventeen years ago)
i also want an explanation re: waterfall
and kowloon walled city ownes this thread
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:04 (seventeen years ago)
*kick*
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 01:28 (seventeen years ago)
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
― slobodan perryošević (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 02:03 (seventeen years ago)
WHERE WAS/IS THE GODDAMN WATERFALL
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 04:14 (seventeen years ago)
Guaíra Falls, flooded during construction of Itaipu Dam. Used to be on the Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay.
― zappi, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:28 (seventeen years ago)
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/theblob.jpghttp://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/twinteeps.jpghttp://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/hatnboots.jpgreal seattle
― get drunk and do legos (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:37 (seventeen years ago)
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/pancakes.jpg
― get drunk and do legos (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:42 (seventeen years ago)
;-)
― l8b100m3r (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:49 (seventeen years ago)
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~bdo206/kims.jpg
― i fuck mathematics, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:56 (seventeen years ago)
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 ;_;
― or something, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 06:33 (seventeen years ago)
sambos still exists, btw
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 07:14 (seventeen years ago)
Hannahs Pies, Ormskirk. RIP.
― Jarlrmai, Monday, 30 March 2009 12:31 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.leicesterchronicler.com/granby_ticket.jpg
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 30 March 2009 12:46 (seventeen years ago)
http://fromtheflightdeck.com/assortedaircraftpics/pics/Shea%20Stadium.jpg
lol
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 04:34 (seventeen years ago)
Hanging Gardens of Babylon:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon.jpg
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 05:08 (seventeen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PgfRBZetNGE/SZ24fpLAn7I/AAAAAAAAAhI/FqCzfqXTdL4/s1600-h/corbusier+philips.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Pavilion
― ambulance chaser (S-), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 05:39 (seventeen years ago)
http://randomknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/philipsexpo58.jpg
― ambulance chaser (S-), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 05:40 (seventeen years ago)
http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/521/197/20071222/dyn005_original_921_574_pjpeg_2521197_a44bd4a2fc805e9e2101dcb4141c6e00.jpg
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 05:58 (seventeen years ago)
Tower of Babel in the background there too xxxp
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 06:57 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.shiftyparadigms.org/images/Festivals/skylon.jpgThe Skylon, Festival of Britain, LondonBuilt: 1951Demolished: 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.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:52 (seventeen years ago)
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
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:55 (seventeen years ago)
95.
http://builtmanhattan.tumblr.com/post/10038790054/listicle-without-commentary-destroyed-new-york-city
― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 5 August 2012 16:56 (thirteen years ago)
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
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Sunday, 5 August 2012 19:53 (thirteen years ago)
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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― The New Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 5 August 2012 23:06 (thirteen years ago)