I went there too, circa 1974. I didn’t realize it had closed, but then again, I’m not much for country music. It was just a day trip when I was stationed at NATTC Millington.
I see where South of the Border is for sale - not sure if that counts here or not. And, really, I was only there once - we stopped for gas and bought a couple of kitschy gifts.
The Sutro Baths and Museum in SF. I was a small child in the 50s-60s and we lived near Walnut Creek. A trip to the museum was a big thing. There was a tram and everything. It was the first time I ever saw a model train set where the train went into a short tunnel and took a long time to come out. (The train went down underneath when it went into the tunnel and then circled around to come back up out of the other end of the tunnel…for those people who have never seen one or figured it out.) It was destroyed by a fire about three years after we moved away.
So Long Branch, NJ had an amusement pier which was locally famous for a bit when the Haunted Mansion opened. A very good arcade also. It burnt down in 1987 while I was away in the Navy.
I had spent a fair amount of time there as a kid and teen.
Similarly Asbury Park had a very famous Boardwalk with a great old carousel and many other rides. Excellent funhouse. Long gone now.
Tillie lasted a lot longer though.
Yeah, kids are very jaded these days. When I showed my kids the Movie Jurassic Park when they were around that age, their reaction was “ugh, the CGI is so bad, this movie is unwatchable, dad”. I was well into adulthood when the movie came out, and I thought at the time it was an amazing, towering acheivement in what had been done with early CGI and movie magic to realistically bring dinosaurs back to life (fortunately, just fictionally). When I had been their age, I grew up on Ray Harryhausen animation, and thought it was awesome.
I’ve noticed at least nine other times where What_Exit made an unintentional pun and didn’t realize it*. You’d think those puns would jump out at him him by now on a reread of his posts, but no pun in ten did.
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* not true, just said to set up a bad pun joke. Please forgive me, W_E