# Things that aren't there anymore... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237 "2015-01-19T00:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/41 "2015-01-20T18:49:53Z")
Lots of stuff in my hometown. Geauga Lake amusement park; SeaWorld Ohio, which was right across the lake from it (there’s a water park where that used to be); The Richfield Coliseum (it’s just a field now). Randall Park Mall, which was largest enclosed shopping center when it opened in 1976, is [finally being torn down](http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/12/randall_park_mall_demolition_u.html) after years of rot. It will be replaced by an industrial park. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/42 "2015-01-20T19:14:25Z")
[Cannon Mills](http://www.textilehistory.org/images/KannapolisCityofLooms.jpg) (later Fieldcrest Cannon later Pillowtex) was a major landmark in Kannapolis NC. It went out of business in 2003, imploded in 2005 and I can’t find my way around Kannapolis anymore. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/43 "2015-01-20T20:00:33Z")
**Pleasure Island** was also built by Cornelius Vanderbuilt Wood, who built Disneyland, Freedomland, and other parks. Pleasure Island was his only non-Disney park to last any significant length of time\*. It was open for a decade. The road that went past it is still called “Pleasure Island Road”. It’s now an industrial park. > **[Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Island_(Massachusetts_amusement_park))** > > Pleasure Island was an amusement park located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The park, billed as the "Disneyland of the Northeast", was in business from 1959 to 1969. During its short existence it went through several owners and was financially handicapped by New England's relatively short summers. > Pleasure Island was founded by William Hawkes, publisher of Child Life magazine, and designed by Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood, a designer of Disneyland and Lake Havasu City. > Covering 80 acres (320,000 m2)... > **[Friends of Pleasure Island | Pleasure Island, Wakefield, Massachusetts,...](http://www.friendsofpleasureisland.org/)** > > Do you remember Pleasure Island in Wakefield, MA. What a great time. Pleasure Island. Wakefield, MA 01880. Friends of Pleasure Island Organization. I’ve been to Aquarama, Freedomland, and Palisades Amusement Park. They will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/44 "2015-01-20T20:06:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The [Old Man of the Mountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain), the state symbol of New Hampshire, fell down in 2003. That doesn’t stop them from still using it on state signs, stationary and license plates. Every once in a while somebody proposes building a replica to hang on the cliff where it used to be, but it never goes anywhere. Not quite true. For years now they’ve had “profilers” set up in the State Park that, when you line them up with the mountain, re-create the old profile. Side view: [https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28AGUGJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTIzYjhhcGlvBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM2MDE2YjY3MWRmY2M0ODI4NmU1MGFlNjRjZTMyMTk1MgRncG9zAzE0BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D14&w=320&h=427&imgurl=here4now.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00d8341d171f53ef019104928d17970c-320wi&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhere4now.typepad.com%2Fhere4now%2F2013%2F08%2Fold-man-of-the-mountain-and-mt-washington-cog-reilway.html&size=48.7KB&name=\Old\<%2Fb\>+\Man\<%2Fb\>+\of+the+Mountain\<%2Fb\>+zoom\_0064&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=6016b671dfcc48286e50ae64ce321952&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=\Old\<%2Fb\>+\Man\<%2Fb\>+\of+the+Mountain\<%2Fb\>+zoom\_0064&b=0&ni=216&no=14&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=137pg8tku&sigb=140q6bi1k&sigi=1206j59rt&sigt=11mbj8pj7&sign=11mbj8pj7&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28AGUGJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIzYjhhcGlvBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM2MDE2YjY3MWRmY2M0ODI4NmU1MGFlNjRjZTMyMTk1MgRncG9zAzE0BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D14&w=320&h=427&imgurl=here4now.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00d8341d171f53ef019104928d17970c-320wi&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhere4now.typepad.com%2Fhere4now%2F2013%2F08%2Fold-man-of-the-mountain-and-mt-washington-cog-reilway.html&size=48.7KB&name=%3Cb%3EOld%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EMan%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3Eof+the+Mountain%3C%2Fb%3E+zoom_0064&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=6016b671dfcc48286e50ae64ce321952&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=%3Cb%3EOld%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EMan%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3Eof+the+Mountain%3C%2Fb%3E+zoom_0064&b=0&ni=216&no=14&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=137pg8tku&sigb=140q6bi1k&sigi=1206j59rt&sigt=11mbj8pj7&sign=11mbj8pj7&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901) View down a single profiler (Mountain out of focus in the back) [https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28APEGJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTIzZ28ydmliBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZANmNWJlYjgzZTA2ODU3MGU5NzhiODg2NTcyZmEyZmE3YgRncG9zAzQ5BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D49&w=200&h=267&imgurl=www.livefreeordiealliance.org%2FPortals%2F0%2Foldmanprofiles.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livefreeordiealliance.org%2FIssues%2FPrincipalIssues%2FOldManofTheMountain%2Ftabid%2F103%2FDefault.aspx&size=+3.4KB&name=The+\Old\<%2Fb\>+\Man\<%2Fb\>+\of+The+Mountain\<%2Fb\>+has+fallen+-+what+next%3F&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=f5beb83e068570e978b886572fa2fa7b&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=The+\Old\<%2Fb\>+\Man\<%2Fb\>+\of+The+Mountain\<%2Fb\>+has+fallen+-+what+next%3F&b=0&ni=216&no=49&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=136s66494&sigb=1402hrpd6&sigi=11q45c54f&sigt=128uuo14m&sign=128uuo14m&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28APEGJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIzZ28ydmliBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZANmNWJlYjgzZTA2ODU3MGU5NzhiODg2NTcyZmEyZmE3YgRncG9zAzQ5BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D49&w=200&h=267&imgurl=www.livefreeordiealliance.org%2FPortals%2F0%2Foldmanprofiles.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livefreeordiealliance.org%2FIssues%2FPrincipalIssues%2FOldManofTheMountain%2Ftabid%2F103%2FDefault.aspx&size=+3.4KB&name=The+%3Cb%3EOld%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EMan%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3Eof+The+Mountain%3C%2Fb%3E+has+fallen+-+what+next%3F&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=f5beb83e068570e978b886572fa2fa7b&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=The+%3Cb%3EOld%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EMan%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3Eof+The+Mountain%3C%2Fb%3E+has+fallen+-+what+next%3F&b=0&ni=216&no=49&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=136s66494&sigb=1402hrpd6&sigi=11q45c54f&sigt=128uuo14m&sign=128uuo14m&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901) The original profile: [https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28APUGJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTIzYjJrc2c2BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM0NWQ1MWI3MDEyMWZkZWExMmQ5NjRhNmQ3OTUxNWUyMARncG9zAzUwBGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D50&w=330&h=256&imgurl=4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-63loIA8Zwbo%2FTxzGeKlTrrI%2FAAAAAAAAAI0%2Fnc7-jMNWWrE%2Fs1600%2Fold%2Bman%2B-%2Bbefore%2Band%2Bafter.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Foscillatingsonatas.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F01%2Ffilling-in-blanks.html&size=24.6KB&name=That+image+was+so+famous%2C+there+was+a+U.S.+postage+stamp+issued%2C+which+...&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=45d51b70121fdea12d964a6d79515e20&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=That+image+was+so+famous%2C+there+was+a+U.S.+postage+stamp+issued%2C+which+...&b=0&ni=216&no=50&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=12568ee9n&sigb=140v19cll&sigi=137mahtj1&sigt=12a5m5lpj&sign=12a5m5lpj&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28APUGJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIzYjJrc2c2BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM0NWQ1MWI3MDEyMWZkZWExMmQ5NjRhNmQ3OTUxNWUyMARncG9zAzUwBGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D50&w=330&h=256&imgurl=4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-63loIA8Zwbo%2FTxzGeKlTrrI%2FAAAAAAAAAI0%2Fnc7-jMNWWrE%2Fs1600%2Fold%2Bman%2B-%2Bbefore%2Band%2Bafter.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Foscillatingsonatas.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F01%2Ffilling-in-blanks.html&size=24.6KB&name=That+image+was+so+famous%2C+there+was+a+U.S.+postage+stamp+issued%2C+which+...&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=45d51b70121fdea12d964a6d79515e20&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=That+image+was+so+famous%2C+there+was+a+U.S.+postage+stamp+issued%2C+which+...&b=0&ni=216&no=50&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=12568ee9n&sigb=140v19cll&sigi=137mahtj1&sigt=12a5m5lpj&sign=12a5m5lpj&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901) A line of the Profilers [https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28AG0GJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTIzMXE2c2J2BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM5YTRjMmQwYzI5YTRmNTJlMjFmNjUwMDkwZWZlM2Q5YwRncG9zAzE2BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D16&w=450&h=338&imgurl=here4now.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00d8341d171f53ef019104928ce2970c-450wi&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhere4now.typepad.com%2Fhere4now%2F2013%2F08%2Fold-man-of-the-mountain-and-mt-washington-cog-reilway.html&size=41.6KB&name=\Old\<%2Fb\>+\Man\<%2Fb\>+\of+the+Mountain\<%2Fb\>\_0064&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=9a4c2d0c29a4f52e21f650090efe3d9c&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=\Old\<%2Fb\>+\Man\<%2Fb\>+\of+the+Mountain\<%2Fb\>\_0064&b=0&ni=216&no=16&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=137pg8tku&sigb=1403dm9ct&sigi=1208ggimp&sigt=11hbq3m4o&sign=11hbq3m4o&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8ppytL5Ue28AG0GJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIzMXE2c2J2BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM5YTRjMmQwYzI5YTRmNTJlMjFmNjUwMDkwZWZlM2Q5YwRncG9zAzE2BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dold%2Bman%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmountain%2Bprofiles%26fr%3Dyfp-t-901%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D16&w=450&h=338&imgurl=here4now.typepad.com%2F.a%2F6a00d8341d171f53ef019104928ce2970c-450wi&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhere4now.typepad.com%2Fhere4now%2F2013%2F08%2Fold-man-of-the-mountain-and-mt-washington-cog-reilway.html&size=41.6KB&name=%3Cb%3EOld%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EMan%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3Eof+the+Mountain%3C%2Fb%3E_0064&p=old+man+of+the+mountain+profiles&oid=9a4c2d0c29a4f52e21f650090efe3d9c&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-901&tt=%3Cb%3EOld%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EMan%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3Eof+the+Mountain%3C%2Fb%3E_0064&b=0&ni=216&no=16&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=137pg8tku&sigb=1403dm9ct&sigi=1208ggimp&sigt=11hbq3m4o&sign=11hbq3m4o&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-901) 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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/45 "2015-01-20T20:25:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Not quite true. For years now they’ve had “profilers” set up in the State Park that, when you line them up with the mountain, re-create the old profile. It’s all so desperately sad. New Hampshire is just that much closer to being nowhere at all. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/46 "2015-01-20T20:30:35Z")
the New England Confectionary Company (NECCo) used to have a big plant in Cambridge MA along Mass Ave., just north of MIT (and across from the Campus House of Pizza). [http://www.cambridgehistory.org/discover/candy/necco.html](http://www.cambridgehistory.org/discover/candy/necco.html) They eventually wised up and painted their water tower so it looked like a pack of their signature candy, **Necco Wafers** : [https://search.yahoo.com/search;\_ylt=A0LEVw\_duL5Uq7UAoAlXNyoA;\_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTkwMQRncHJpZANsc2hFaEZZdFE4Q0hqbmpUd2d0Ym1BBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMzBG9yaWdpbgNzZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDBHFzdHJsAzIxBHF1ZXJ5A05lY2NvIHBsYW50IGNhbWJyaWRnZQR0X3N0bXADMTQyMTc4NTYzOQ--?p=Necco+plant+cambridge&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-901&fp=1](https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEVw_duL5Uq7UAoAlXNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTkwMQRncHJpZANsc2hFaEZZdFE4Q0hqbmpUd2d0Ym1BBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMzBG9yaWdpbgNzZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDBHFzdHJsAzIxBHF1ZXJ5A05lY2NvIHBsYW50IGNhbWJyaWRnZQR0X3N0bXADMTQyMTc4NTYzOQ--?p=Necco+plant+cambridge&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-901&fp=1) NECCO moved out in 2004 for Revere (Revere!!), and sold the building to Novartis. The DNA helix they painted on the water tower just ain’t the same… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/47 "2015-01-20T21:53:39Z")
Soco Gardens Zoo, Maggie Valley, NC. From Wikipedia: Soco Gardens Zoo was a private zoo in Maggie Valley, North Carolina that closed in October 2005 after being in operation for more than 50 years. Buildings and grounds are still there, the larger animals have gone bye-bye. A local newspaper account says [this](http://www.waynesvillelive.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=581.0;wap2). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/48 "2015-01-21T00:15:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It’s all so desperately sad. New Hampshire is just that much closer to being nowhere at all. Seriously, is there nothing else interesting in the entire state? I used to work with some New Hampshireites (before the Old Man fell) and I used to tease them about how they needed to diversify their iconography. I think my opinion has been vindicated. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > NECCO moved out in 2004 for Revere (Revere!!), and sold the building to Novartis. The DNA helix they painted on the water tower just ain’t the same… Converting a brick building from candy making to biotech may not have been the smartest move. I read somewhere that they had to do an incredible amount of sandblasting to get all the sugar residue out of the pores in the walls. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/49 "2015-01-21T00:24:24Z")
**The Nut Tree** It was a restaurant (and gift shop, and toy store, and airport, and playground…) on Interstate 80 between Sacramento and San Francisco. My grandparents lived in Sacramento and a visit to them wasn’t complete without a trip to The Nut Tree. I was out that way a few years ago and it’s a shadow of its former self. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/50 "2015-01-21T00:34:21Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Seriously, is there nothing else interesting in the entire state? I used to work with some New Hampshireites (before the Old Man fell) and I used to tease them about how they needed to diversify their iconography. > > I think my opinion has been vindicated. I’ve lived in NH for over 11 years, and it is pretty slim pickins. Mt. Washington, the windiest spot in the lower 48. Lake Winnipesaukee, butt of any joke with a summer camp in it. Childhood home of Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman. Home of Alan Shepard, second American in space. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/51 "2015-01-21T00:43:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > …Alan Shepard, second American in space. Second person in space, first American. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/52 "2015-01-21T00:48:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Seriously, is there nothing else interesting in the entire state? I used to work with some New Hampshireites (before the Old Man fell) and I used to tease them about how they needed to diversify their iconography. > > I think my opinion has been vindicated. Shhh. Don’t say anything mean about New Hampshire. They pick out our Presidents. And if you piss them off, they’ll give us a bad one. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/53 "2015-01-21T02:41:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **The Nut Tree** > > It was a restaurant (and gift shop, and toy store, and airport, and playground…) on Interstate 80 between Sacramento and San Francisco. My grandparents lived in Sacramento and a visit to them wasn’t complete without a trip to The Nut Tree. > > I was out that way a few years ago and it’s a shadow of its former self. Nut Tree was famous as a place to fly into. Is the little airport still there? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/54 "2015-01-21T03:55:01Z")
Sadly, because of a double whammy, **Funtown Pier** and a lot of nearby Boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J. It got hit by Sandy in late 2012, which devastated large portions of the pier, ruining the ferris wheel and the mouse (Casino Pier, a little farther north, was hit, too, but fared better). They cleaned it up and started rehabilitating it, and then a fire caused by a junction box people didn’t even know was there took out almost everything else at Funtown. Fortunately, the Sawmill (a popular bar and pizza place) survived, but I don’t know how much else did. A lot of memories went up there. > **[Fire consumes N.J. boardwalk rebuilt after Sandy](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/12/seaside-nj-boardwalk-fire/2806627/)** > > Much of the iconic boardwalk was just rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/55 "2015-01-21T04:12:24Z")
From my hometown, many Chiefs baseball games were watched [here](http://www.minorleagueballparks.com/maca_ny.html) …and SU football games [here](http://archives.syr.edu/buildings/archbold_stadium.html). ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/56 "2015-01-21T15:50:29Z")
Down the shore… [![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IQj9c5jnXy8/UC17f8cyfnI/AAAAAAAAWbE/zbfZkBCpcGM/s1600/TM_night_outside_good%5B1%5D.JPG) ](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IQj9c5jnXy8/UC17f8cyfnI/AAAAAAAAWbE/zbfZkBCpcGM/s1600/TM_night_outside_good%5B1%5D.JPG) [http://www.tonymart.com/Default.htm](http://www.tonymart.com/Default.htm) Featured in the movie “Eddie and the Cruisers” > **[Bay Shores Nightclub, Somers Point, NJ](http://jerseyshorenightbeat.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html)** > > \[Thanks to Roger Evoy for photos and the memories\] Bayshores Flashback - They shook the rafters and drank 10 cent beers - In Memorial Days ... [https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608046826998989717&pid=15.1&P=0](https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608046826998989717&pid=15.1&P=0) All gone…like tears…in the rain ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/57 "2015-01-21T15:52:13Z")
> [@FuriousGeorge](#): > > From my hometown, many Chiefs baseball games were watched [here](http://www.minorleagueballparks.com/maca_ny.html) > > …and SU football games [here](http://archives.syr.edu/buildings/archbold_stadium.html). So I’ll throw in the Civic Arena and Forbes Field. The Igloo I was always a little neutral on but Forbes was a Hell of a great ballpark. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/58 "2015-01-21T16:05:33Z")
Heck, when it comes to the Jersey Shore I’m sad that the **Steel Pier** is gone. Yeah, they say it’s still there, but it ain’t. That pitiful short amusement pier can’;t begin to compare with that immensely long entertainment venue. I visited in the 1960s, before a couple of fires took down first the original Music Hall, then took off the stuff at the end of the pier. It had TWO movie theaters, a live act (I saw the Supremes there, and the Cowsills, and Herman’s Hermits), a Diving Bell that would take you down into the Jersey ocean where you saw – nothing, a circus at the end of the pier, and the Fabulous Diving Horse! It also had games and trained animals who would perform for feed, a Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium, souvenir shops by the ton, and eating places. You could spend the entire day there. And, over it all, the giant billboards for “Coca Cola” and for "Zaberer’s Seafood Restaurant (which is also, sadly, gone) [http://www.steel-pier.com/](http://www.steel-pier.com/) The Diving Bell in the background: > **[Years later, former Steel Pier employees still share stories, memories](https://pressofatlanticcity.com/features/f5/years-later-former-steel-pier-employees-still-share-stories-memories/article_982dbd4c-4d14-11e1-9a19-001871e3ce6c.html)** > > Bart Beck stood next to the device he operated for decades, telling his friends how he, his father and brother used to raise it from the ocean surface by meticulously Not all of these are of the Steel Pier. Some are of the new bastardized pier: [https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=AwrBT7a4zb9UUEQAuGhXNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZGk2Z2FqBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDA3N18x?\_adv\_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-901&va=Steel+Pier+Atlantic+City+memories](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT7a4zb9UUEQAuGhXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZGk2Z2FqBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDA3N18x?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-901&va=Steel+Pier+Atlantic+City+memories) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/59 "2015-01-21T17:22:53Z")
Memorial Stadium in Baltimore is long gone. Some people got no respect. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237/60 "2015-01-21T17:34:01Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I’ve lived in NH for over 11 years, and it is pretty slim pickins. Mt. Washington, the windiest spot in the lower 48. Lake Winnipesaukee, butt of any joke with a summer camp in it. Childhood home of Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman. Home of Alan Shepard, second American in space. That’s about it. _Shrug_ Mt. Washington would beat Connecticut’s image: a tree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-arent-there-anymore/710237.md?page=4)