Places you went to when you were younger but they are long gone.
 

Mine would have to be Opryland, USA. Rode my first corkscrew coaster there. I was able to visit in in '96 before it closed down and they built Opry Mills Mall.

Astroworld. I found out is closed a couple years ago when I was talking to someone from Houston. I was CRUSHED.

Benson's Animal Farm! I was barely old enough to remember it when it closed, but it was a New England staple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson's_Wild_Animal_Farm

You've probably heard of it if you like Dane Cook :)

Sorry I'm double posting, but I just noticed this comment. The guys here on ESPN radio talk about AstroWorld all the time. Having just moved to Houston a year ago, I have no idea what AstroWorld was like, but they always joke that it should be resurrected whenever the debate/vote arises about what to do with the deteriorating, decrepit Astrodome.

I miss Opryland. Sigh.

Yep. Was going to post this as well. Good memories at Astroworld.

Bob-lo Island and Farrell's ice cream parlor.

It was a nice SixFlags theme park with a couple really good roller coasters. It was just names Astroworld because of the Astros.

I came on here to say this. No fair!

We used to have an ESPN Zone in Times Square. My mom dated a guy who took me and my siblings there and while I'm not a huge sports fan, I loved it!

There were two arcades in Times Square, Barcode and Broadway. Barcode was an arcade with a nightclub feel. You had to be 18+ to go unaccompanied and 21+ after a certain time. Of course when I became of age, it was closed. Broadway was good times too, but got super sketchy and closed. Now it's a BBQs.

Also sad Tower Records and Virgin Records closed. Oy, showing my age there.

Old Chicago. A completely indoor amusement park so it was open year round. They had great commercials.

I worked at Astroworld as a teenager on the French Taxis and the Wacky Shack. Good times!

I also feel nostalgic about Peppermint Park, which was over by Gulfgate in southeast Houston.

Yes! I posted on GC previously about going to Farrell's for my 21st birthday with about 30 of my sorority sisters and our house mother. It was a birthday destination when we were kids, and it brought back a lot of memories for many of us.

Also, the 'Vous in College Park, Maryland. Best. College. Bar. Ever. (we went there after Farrell's :o)

You beat me to it! I loved Old Chicago. I grew up in Bolingbrook so I went there quite a bit. (My parents' friends owned the Buster Brown store inside the mall and that's where my sister and I got our shoes as kids.) The combination of being built on what was then the "wrong" side of I-55, the lack of major anchor stores, and Great America opening in the Chicago area was what killed it. Too bad. It was just too far ahead of its time.

While we're talking about defunct amusement parks in the Chicago area, I submit Dispensa's Kiddie Kingdom. (Warning, music plays when you open that page) My sister had several birthday parties there.

I grew up very close to Great America. While it is still there, it was WAY better back then when it was Marriott's Great America rather than Six Flags. The main theme was Looney Tunes back then, and each area of the park had a definite theme as well (County Fair, Orleans Place, etc.). I miss the way it used to be!