50 Vacation Spots and Amusement Parks From the 1970s That No Longer Exist
How It Used to Be
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If your family took a vacation in America in the 1970s, you rode a coaster on a cliff over the Hudson that was demolished before you got home, drove through a safari where a baboon tore off your wipers, and watched a horse dive off a forty-foot tower into a tank — and every one of those places is gone.
In this video we count down 50 vacation spots and amusement parks 1970s families visited that no longer exist. Palisades Park. Jungle Habitat. Lion Country Safari. The World of Sid and Marty Krofft — open six months. Old Chicago. AstroWorld. Opryland. Libertyland. Land of Oz. Pirates World. Circus World. Six Gun Territory. Cypress Gardens. The Steel Pier diving horse. The Catskills hotels. The Poconos honeymoon resorts. The Salton Sea. Miracle Strip. Petticoat Junction. Playland-at-the-Beach. The Pike. Marineland of the Pacific. Busch Gardens Van Nuys and Houston. The Aquatarium. Ocean World. Sea-Arama. Frontier Village. Fairyland. West View. Willow Grove. Chippewa Lake. Idora Park. Rocky Point. Crystal Beach. Paragon Park. Whalom. Boblo Island. Edgewater. Bertrand Island. Santa's Village. The Enchanted Forest. Dogpatch USA. Ghost Town in the Sky. The old Las Vegas Strip. The Wildwood doo-wop motels. Silver Springs. Marine World Africa USA.
And number 50 explains what killed them almost all at once: the land became worth more as condos than as a coaster, the destination giants changed what a vacation was, and the interstate and cheap airfare made "near" stop mattering.
There are about 70 million Americans alive right now who rode a coaster on a cliff over the Hudson and drove through a safari with a baboon on the hood — and who can still name the park an hour from home that no longer exists.
Tell me in the comments: the place your family actually went to, and the one this list missed. I read every single one.
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50 Vacation Spots and Amusement Parks From the 1970s That No Longer Exist
How It Used to Be
7,181 views
If your family took a vacation in America in the 1970s, you rode a coaster on a cliff over the Hudson that was demolished before you got home, drove through a safari where a baboon tore off your wipers, and watched a horse dive off a forty-foot tower into a tank — and every one of those places is gone.
In this video we count down 50 vacation spots and amusement parks 1970s families visited that no longer exist. Palisades Park. Jungle Habitat. Lion Country Safari. The World of Sid and Marty Krofft — open six months. Old Chicago. AstroWorld. Opryland. Libertyland. Land of Oz. Pirates World. Circus World. Six Gun Territory. Cypress Gardens. The Steel Pier diving horse. The Catskills hotels. The Poconos honeymoon resorts. The Salton Sea. Miracle Strip. Petticoat Junction. Playland-at-the-Beach. The Pike. Marineland of the Pacific. Busch Gardens Van Nuys and Houston. The Aquatarium. Ocean World. Sea-Arama. Frontier Village. Fairyland. West View. Willow Grove. Chippewa Lake. Idora Park. Rocky Point. Crystal Beach. Paragon Park. Whalom. Boblo Island. Edgewater. Bertrand Island. Santa's Village. The Enchanted Forest. Dogpatch USA. Ghost Town in the Sky. The old Las Vegas Strip. The Wildwood doo-wop motels. Silver Springs. Marine World Africa USA.
And number 50 explains what killed them almost all at once: the land became worth more as condos than as a coaster, the destination giants changed what a vacation was, and the interstate and cheap airfare made "near" stop mattering.
There are about 70 million Americans alive right now who rode a coaster on a cliff over the Hudson and drove through a safari with a baboon on the hood — and who can still name the park an hour from home that no longer exists.
Tell me in the comments: the place your family actually went to, and the one this list missed. I read every single one.
#1970s #amusementparks #vacation #1970snostalgia #genx #babyboomers #americannostalgia #howitusedtobe #vintageamerica #1970smemories #lostparks #rollercoaster #childhoodmemories #retroamerica #thingsthatvanished
The part nobody warns you about: I went looking for it a few years ago. The park closed in 1976, and the roads are still there, under the trees in the New Jersey hills, paved and cracked and going nowhere, with the old animal enclosures rusting back into the woods. I stood on the exact stretch where the baboon sat on our hood, and it was silent, and it was beautiful, and it was the strangest afternoon of my adult life. The wipers, I assume, are still out there somewhere.
So tell me. Two things. The place from this list your family actually went to. And the one vacation spot from the 1970s that these fifty still missed — the pier, the lake park, the safari, the storybook forest — because somebody's childhood is on a list I haven't found yet. Both. I read every single one.
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