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What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes.

It closed in 2020 and never reopened because they had apparently been avoiding paying bills for years. It wasn’t just the pandemic. It was visible from the freeway, so I watched it slowly being demolished over the next couple years any time I passed by.

I haven’t found a water park that really compared to it yet. Most are either too small or part of a larger theme park, which is fine. It just seemed like the fact that it exclusively was a water park allowed it to focus more on the atmosphere and types of slides it had.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Gosh, so many places.

It just so happened that the house I currently live in is literally down the street from the hospital where I was born . . . or at least, where it used to be. They closed down and demolished that hospital and built a new one across the city. All that's left in that lot is piles of rubble. The new hospital is legitimately a better one with a lot of great improvements and upgrades, but I still miss being able to walk up the street and look up at the old building and go "I was born in there :)"

Two of the schools I went to as a kid have also long since been bulldozed. Recently, though, a new school went up on the lot where the oldest one used to be (after at least a decade of just being an empty field), and it looks really nice.