Places, Earth
Places Gone

State Parks, Historic Sites, and Museums need your help.

Throughout the country, important state parks, historic sites, homes, buildings, and museums are in trouble. Because of the recent rise in gasoline prices and the general world-wide financial collapse, state parks, historic sites, and museums are in danger of closing. Some are being forced to sell off artifacts and property. Most operate on a thin margin and will not weather these hard times without your help.

Places Earth recently encountered closed state parks in Arizona and California is threatening to close all state parks. The story is similar throughout the country.

Places Earth urges everyone to support these vital and important public resources any way you can. Please find a worthy local or distant historic site or museum that is in financial danger and donate your treasure, time, and talent. Write to your governor and other elected officials telling them to find a way to keep these parks open. It will be your loss.

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Places Gone

These pages are a collection of words and pictures of places that have been lost.

Select a place below.

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Places Gone pages are a collection of words and pictures of places that no longer exist. These pages sometimes include drawings and maps.

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This section is one that I hope grows slowly. It is dedicated to those wonderful places that have left us. We have lost so many beautiful and historic buildings, theme parks, botanical gardens and zoos, and wild places.

Some of these places have moved to this page from the Places Endangered page once the place was finally lost.

Unfortunately, I can't photograph everything before it is lost.

California

Ambassador Hotel
Angel's Flight - may reopen
Busch Gardens
Balboa Fun Zone
Encono Oak
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village - closed and threatened
Hughes Aircraft Plant
Japanese Village and Deer Park
Juices Fountain
Jungleland
Lawry's California Center / Los Angeles River Center - reopend in a new configuration
Lion Country Safari
Movieland Wax Museum
Old Los Angeles Zoo - now a picnic area
Palm Tree and the Pine Tree
Santa's Village
Showboat Restaurant
Southwest Museum - closed, future not sure
Tail of the Pup - may reopen
Wild Bill's
World Trade Center
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This page last updated: Thursday, 30-Apr-2009 13:49:19 CDT

Note: This is not the official site for any of the places shown in Places Earth. Places Earth is not responsible for accuracy of the information. Hours of operations, prices, exhibits, and sometimes locations are subject to change without notice.

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