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

[clarinette]

Mr. Gatti's (arcade/pizza place) and Skate City (local skate rink)

[Sister Havana]

YES! Marshall Fields. SO much better than Macy's.

Kroch's and Brentano's and Crown Books - two of my most missed bookstores. And Borders. I always preferred it to Barnes and Noble.

For those from the Chicago area, check out Craig's Lost Chicago. Talk about bringing back the memories!

[Sister Havana]

And a few NYC places I loved that are no longer there...

Love Saves the Day
Tower Records/Tower Records Annex (the clearance outlet behind the main store in the East Village)/Tower Books
Dojo
Around the Clock
Barnes & Noble Annex (clearance outlet)
Daffy's
Stage Deli
Confetti Pasta
Tavern on the Green

[maconmagnolia]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

YES! Marshall Fields. SO much better than Macy's.

Oh my gosh, I really miss Marshall Fields. I also miss Famous Barr and Filene's Basement.

[bevinpiphi]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

YES! Marshall Fields. SO much better than Macy's.

Kroch's and Brentano's and Crown Books - two of my most missed bookstores. And Borders. I always preferred it to Barnes and Noble.

For those from the Chicago area, check out Craig's Lost Chicago. Talk about bringing back the memories!

Thanks for that link! I see some things from my childhood there - Bell's Apple Orchard and Wauconda Orchards, Discovery Zone, Marshall Field's, and Ben Franklin stores.

[Maman]

Marineland of the Pacific in the early 60's.

[pinksequins]

It was kinda sketchy decades ago too ....

[SWTXBelle]

Astroworld - ESPECIALLY the Cyclone. Best. Wooden. Coaster.

The Adventurer's Club at Pleasure Island - Walt Disney World. My very favorite part of WDW - and that is saying something.

[AnchorAlumna]

Underground Atlanta - cool when it first opened, then turned dangerous, then got revived, and is now on the downhill side again.
Sid and Marty Krofft's indoor amusement park in Atlanta - slowest rides I've ever seen. It was all a joke.
Rich's and Davison's in Atlanta and everywhere else - Macy's is a sad, sad, shabby substitute.
Parisian in Birmingham and other locations - we Alabama residents are still livid that it was sold to Belk and converted into crappy, low-class merchandise.

I doubt anybody on this board is from Florence, Ala., but there was an amusement place on the river, around 1959-60, that had trampolines stretched over pits dug in the ground. I loved that place! Only got to go one time. I was, oh, 6 or 7 years old.

[ZetaPhi708]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Underground Atlanta - cool when it first opened, then turned dangerous, then got revived, and is now on the downhill side again.
Sid and Marty Krofft's indoor amusement park in Atlanta - slowest rides I've ever seen. It was all a joke.
Rich's and Davison's in Atlanta and everywhere else - Macy's is a sad, sad, shabby substitute.
Parisian in Birmingham and other locations - we Alabama residents are still livid that it was sold to Belk and converted into crappy, low-class merchandise.

I doubt anybody on this board is from Florence, Ala., but there was an amusement place on the river, around 1959-60, that had trampolines stretched over pits dug in the ground. I loved that place! Only got to go one time. I was, oh, 6 or 7 years old.

Sid & Marty Krofft's Theme Park, I love their trippy shows as a kid ( that is a whole other thread) and you can see glimpses of this failed park in this video:

http://youtu.be/HS_TmRtoO2k

Oh, the 70s. Kid's shows were definitely interesting back then....

[pinksequins]

Schloss Klessheim in Austria that went from elegant hotel when I was a child -- with the most fantastic dessert and pastry trolley that I ever laid my eyes on -- to a sad casino last I knew. All I wanted was a dirndl and that dessert trolley. Today, dessert trolley, yes; dirndl, um, no.

[KSUViolet06]

NE OH peeps: GEAUGA LAKE/ SIX FLAGS.

*sheds tears*

[MaryPoppins]

Ponchartrain Beach Amusement Park in New Orleans. D.H. Holmes Stores in New Orleans and other southern cities (Dillard's is a pale and wan replacement.) Garfinkle's Department Stores in D.C. Goldsmith's Department Stores in Memphis. Old Tyme Deli in Jackson, Mississippi. And pre-1980 Saks Fifth Avenue.

[violetgeek]

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

Ponchartrain Beach Amusement Park in New Orleans. D.H. Holmes Stores in New Orleans and other southern cities (Dillard's is a pale and wan replacement.) Garfinkle's Department Stores in D.C. Goldsmith's Department Stores in Memphis. Old Tyme Deli in Jackson, Mississippi. And pre-1980 Saks Fifth Avenue.

My husband almost cried when we heard that Old Tyme Deli had closed.

Remember Winter Wonderland at the downtown Goldsmith's?

Florida Panhandle beaches before high rise condos.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by violetgeek

Florida Panhandle beaches before high rise condos.

That's why there's 30A!