That may have been Storytown, which was a fairytale-themed amusement park in Lake George, NY. It opened in 1954. In 1983 it was renamed The Great Escape. Six Flags bought the park in 1996. They’re still operating the park, now Six Flags Great Escape, on the site of the original Storytown, with some of the original attractions still around.
How is that possible? We lived in the area for almost a decade and never met anybody who had been there.
Also went to the World Trade Center, back in the early 80s.
The wax museum in Victoria closed in 2010 - another place I visited many times in the 80s.
There was an Enchanted Forest west of Baltimore in Ellicott City, Maryland, that was storybook-themed: Mother Goose, Cinderella’s Castle, the houses of the three bears, etc. It was aimed at little kids, and I loved it back in the mid-1970s. It lasted into the 1990s, and apparently many of the structures have since been moved to Clark’s Elioak Farm, an historic farm and petting zoo nearby.
I just assumed it must have fallen down by now, it looked pretty ramshackle in the 80s.
I honestly have no idea. I remember going when I was 10 or so and being really disappointed. 30 years later my sister and I decided it would be funny to take our kids for a laugh. It was more nostalgia than I thought it would be because the exact same creepy guy was playing the train robber. That was 15 years ago. I’m betting that if he’s still alive, he’s still robbing trains every weekend.
The Luxor originally had some very cool attractions, with the Nile River boat ride among the best.
Never mind.
Yer too fast for me.
I’ve been told my paternal grandfather went there in the ‘40s. From Baltimore.
They continued on with in in the Minneapolis Dayton’s even when it became Marshall Fields and the Macy’s (up on the 7th floor I believe) until about 10 years ago when Macy’s left. The Santa Bear is still a thing though. The lady who’s family designs and has them made runs a gift shop around 50th & France and she’ll talk your ear off about it if you let her. They sell them at the Christmas market that they open each season on the first floor of the old Dayton’s building.
Good to know. I’m glad it isn’t as long gone as I thought it might be.
Marineland is still around and in the town of… Marineland! It is part of St.Augustine proper somehow but about 30 minutes down the coast from St.Augustine. Still doing dolphin shows.
Add me to the list of folks who visited Wisconsin Dells before it became water park central.
In contrast Bay Beach Amusement park has added a bunch but still has the giant slide.
I wonder how many rides I went on at Great America (the one in Gurnee, Il now 6 flags GA) are still there – The Whizzer still is. I remember when Tidal Wave was the new ride (made way for Batman)
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I preferred Marineland to Sea World. They seemed to treat their animals better, at least it appeared to me the customer so. If I remember right, they had a swim trough aquarium that looked great, but at the time I didn’t think I swam well enough.
And for various degrees of “don’t exist”, I nominate the dinosaurs at Cabazon, CA, most notably featured in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Oh the dinos are still there, but they have been taken over by christian nut jobs that claim dinos as we (science based) understand them never existed.
The EAT cafe that was there, where Large Marge dropped Pee Wee off, is long torn down. I liked that place as much as the dinos.
I think Universal Studios’ courthouse square burned down. My one and only tour of the place coincided with filming there and I couldn’t see a thing. I didn’t even know what I missed!
Nope, didn’t stop even when Roosevelt Lake was at 15% capacity. That is one of Mesa’s water sources, and it must flow. If the river stopped flowing, we’ll all be in trouble.
MGM Grand in Vegas had a mini Disneyland/Busch Gardens-like park with shows and rides. I liked it a lot. I guess there weren’t enough of us likers, as it is long gone.
The LA Museum of Science and Industry used to have an annex in the back with additional displays including a nice model railroad illustrating CA agriculture. I thin it was destroyed in an earthquake (The Northridge?)
Lucky!
So yes, for me, touristy!
One place I was just thinking about was a stately home near where I grew up in the UK: Littlecote. They had all the standard stately home touristy stuff,:tours of the home with lurid ghost stories, English civil war reneacters, Roman legionary reneacters (there was a Roman villa on the site)… and also weirdly a recreation of an American old west town with gunfights. I remember thinking even as a kid this made absolutely no sense at all (though obviously loved every minute of it).
It was brought up by a international hotel chain years ago and is now just an extremely upscale hotel 
I had been to Marineland as a young kid (<8?) a few times before we first went to Seaworld San Diego a year or so after it opened. It seemed to kidly me that Marineland was serious about animals and science and similar stuff while Seaworld was all about cartoons and cuteness & souvenirs.
The Mirage in Vegas. Stayed there years ago to see Love, it was also the former home of Siegfried & Roy. They had a decent aquarium and a fake volcano.
How about the Memphis Pyramid? It was a sports and entertainment complex, now it’s a Bass Pro Shop.
As seen in the Circus Circus elevator some years back;
