The Kindergarten I went to doesn't exist any more.
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Hastings’s stores. They sold books, CDs, DVDs, tabletop game supplies, video games etc. It was always exciting to go and look even if my parents were not going to buy me anything.
I'm in San Diego, and grew up here. Open space. Yeah, we are really good about keeping some open spaces (typically national/state parks) but just random open space is all filled with urban sprawl now.
When I was a kid, there was an area of San Diego county that was a GIANT piece of private property. There was one dirt road that ran through it (likely an easement/eminent domain thing), connecting the east and west part of the county.
Decades ago, when I was in high school, we used to party, and do all kinds of dumb shit out there. It had been the same for so long that my parents also partied back there too many, many decades before. I know there were at least 2 cars buried out there. I had gotten a car stuck in the mud once myself (had to dig it out in the dark. that was super fun) It's all but gone now.
Where was this? We always used to go out to Proctor Valley to drink and "look for the Proctor Valley Monster" lol.
Black Mountain/Black Mountain Road. All of that shit along the 56, and west to where Carmel Valley used to end on the east side, up to the backside/south side of fairbanks, and down to mira mesa used to be open space/rolling hills.
this is a little before my time, but this is what I remember it looking like int he 80s/90s <- this was what black mountain rd used to look like, if it hadn't rained in like a month. If there was any rain it was a rutted out mess.
Ah yes, definitely familiar with that area. The sprawl that sprouted up in San Diego just over the last 20 years is crazy, not to mention the last 30-40. I've legit heard my older family members say "I remember when this was all orange groves" hahaha
My childhood home was built before the 5 freeway. My mother remembers playing in the trench they dug. The road to that house was dirt until well after I learned to drive. I’m old, but not THAT old. At least it doesn’t feel that way.
And yeah it was all groves, open space, and horse farms. I remember when Carmel valley didn’t really exist.
My elementary school was heavily renovated the year after I "graduated" sixth grade. It's not the same place anymore, and I have a lot of memories and nostalgia tied up with that old building — among other things, it's where I met the woman who'd become my wife.
There used to be a very janky waterslides on a hilltop that closed down. The place was notorious for giving kids scrapes and bruises and other injuries for years, my parents were surprised it hadn't closed earlier.
K Mart, It is now a Walmart.
And the forest reclaims the land.
My elementary school closed down. Good riddance, honestly.
This may be a weird answer, but I played Celtic music with the family band as a teenager and our favorite place to play was Santa Rosa Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, CA. Great vibe, good food—I of course was too young to partake of the brew 😉—but it was a lot of fun and we had a crowd of regulars who'd come to see us perform every time. When they eventually closed down, it felt like the end of an era…
My elementary school closed down a few years back. They had a small reunion with any students that attended before they closed for good. It was a definite blast from the past as there were a few teachers that still worked there and many of my old classmates attended. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive the news until after they already shut down but I was able to see pictures on Facebook.
There was a roller skating rink called "Sweet Feet" that I had two birthday parties in but it collapsed sometime in middle school and was never rebuilt.
Those wooden playgrounds. There was one I went to all the time as a kid. It was so much fun and had all kinds of rooms and nooks and crannies to play in. It got replaced with a generic plastic playground at some point, I think for safety reasons.
Zellers
MY HOUSE
Had to get demolished to make way for a lightrail
kinda cool to have the key to a place that no longer exists at least
You perfectly described a water park in my home town, although mine closed down in the 1990s. It had a "silver bullet" slide, a bunch of conventional slides and a tube slide, a lazy river, a wave pool, a pretty decent arcade and a go-kart track, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don't remember from spending big chunks of my childhood summers there. Birthday parties and school trips, too.
After it closed down, some of the slides were moved to a golf course across town that wanted to expand, but it wasn't as good and it was way too far to go by bus. The original park is the loading dock for a Home Depot now.
Would this happen to be Breakers waterpark? If not, I guess it's just a common story lol
Gone but not forgotten is Gameworks. I still have a card with $7 on it that I'll never get to use
Woah. Did gameworks actually die?
I haven't seen one in person or online in over a decade
I'd love to be proven wrong though!
A skatepark near me. Don't know the story behind it being closed.
A roundabout in my home city was turned into an elevated 4-way intersection. It wasn't an improvement. When I visualize the city I always see the roundabout. It was there all my life.
Abu’s in Milwaukee, where I had my first solid food
There's no grave marker for the old mall in my home town. Just a new, totally different mall.
An elementary school was torn down and a replacement built right next to it, on the same grounds. The old school I attended is now the new parking lot.
The church I attended as a child is gone. Luckily my belief was torn down years before that happened.
In essence my high school doesn't exist, at least not as it did. It was dramatically reconstructed and hardly resembles the school I went to.
Of course these were things that were old when I knew them, and only continued to age to the point they needed replacing. The oldest stuff in my home town though, will outlast me.
I'm getting old enough now where this is true for multiple things, but the ones that come to mind would be my schools - 2 of the 3 schools I attended have since been demolished. My high school is still standing, but the elementary and Junior High schools are gone now.
Our drive-in theatre.
Happiness
Wet and Wild
A chain of restaurants called Happy Chef. They were all around the Iowa/ Minnesota area. Used to stop at them when going to visit family.
My grandparents house. Burnt down, now someone lives in a trailer (caravan) there.
I grew up in the middle of Miami, with developed streets and houses in every directions for at least 5 or 6 miles. But I lived in the corner of this dead end that ended at a path There was this huge area of woods like two or three city blocks worth, about 10 feet lower than the rest of the neighbor. There was a steep path down, by far the only stretch of mountain bike - worthy riding anywhere around, and all kinds of trails and huge boulders to climb. It wasn't wilderness--I think it was a coral rock quarry, and all of the trees were an invasive species that meant the original pines had been taken down. But it was just a beautiful place, and all the neighborhood kids hung out there for hours and hours. We could cut through there to get to school, and there was also a big covered basketball court. We could literally play basketball rain or shine, in this huge pavilion. The soccer fields were there so we could cut through those words for our games. There was a pool, too.
Hurricane Andrew came through when I was 14 and destroyed that forest, since those invasive trees couldn't handle the winds. The court and pool made it longer, but it's all gone now. Oddly enough, especially for Miami, it became a park and soccer fields, instead of more houses. My kids and my brothers' kids all still go there to play when they're visiting my parents, but that beautiful magical place from my elementary school years, where I could be wild and free in the middle of the city, is so gone.
There was an Arby's near my home where I would get Jamocha shakes as a treat either as a reward or after special events. One day it was closed and soon after it became a pile of gravel, and now there stands a parking garage.