BThumme

The pavillion amusement park in Myrtle Beach, SC

carbacca

another one for kai tak, plus kowloon walled city, and colonial hong kong in general. not the same since the communist took over

pinniped

Oh, and how could I forget Cardiff Arms Park.

gglave

I'm sure I subtracted 2 years from my life every time I walked in the place, but I loved sitting up at the window, having a cigar and cocktail and watching terminal operations.

flyboy60

Windows on the World.

Best damn wine service of any restaurant I have ever patronized - both in terms of breadth of selection, knowledge of the staff and overall value. And the view was not shabby either. And how and why it no longer exists compounds the magnitude of the loss.

ehallison

The original Macaroni Grill in Leon Springs, TX (San Antonio).

Then they got bought & Brinkerized and the original one shut down.

Frequent Freak

Yeah, I remember that place.

Also, the Top of the Sixes restaurant at 666 Fifth Avenue. As a kid I don't remember the food, but on family trips to NYC it was always the high point for me. Literally!

cs57

The Plaza (NYC) and Trader Vics (in the basement) Oh, those scorpion Bowls and Samoan Fogcutters! What great memories! (from 34 years ago)!

Letitride3c

+1 Old Kai Tak - 1st. flight out of there, a Pam Am 707. Night time carrier-like landing on 747, full flaps & reverse thrustors deployed in the 80's (plus, rain & lightening during our final descent) After getting an inside look thru the Walled City in the early 1990's, we went up to the hill by Kowloon Park to spot the jumbos making their fast & rapid final turns as it cut into cross-wind & line up for the runway, amazing compare to today's Chep Lap Kok's gradual slow glide.

Plus, I will add the "old" Macau - life & times before all the new casinos and hi-rises - and the twlight view from the terrace of Pousada de São Tiago

^ and Vista Hotel too. It's sad, every time I think about it. Happy hours & dinner on top of the world, and the non-stop elevator ride to go up and down, ears popped each & every time with that rush - fast as hell, like 90 seconds.

2 WTC's 43rd floor cafeteria with 360 view, our favorite place for breakfast & lunch when many state agencies were all housed in the towers then - access by walking down 1 level from the Sky Lobby.

mapleg

I visited in 1975 and Intourist ran the entire show then for tours, hotels in Moscow and Leningrad, etc.

mapleg

Palisades Park, NJ--I was always entranced by those coupons you would find in 60's Batman/Superman comics

http://www.tomheroes.com/images6/COM...sades_park.jpg

WIRunner

I second the Stage Deli. Loved that place.

Reindeerflame

The big outdoor swimming pool at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park (CA), built by the CCC in the 1930's along with canals and other landscape-appropriate infrastructure that diverted water into the pool from the Big Sur River and then back into the river. It was concrete-lined, much bigger than most pools, and even had sandy beaches. It was drained in the winter season, and one could walk all around it.

Sometime, in the early 1970s, it was gone. Earlier this month, I revisited the area, and the former pool area is overgrown with vegetation, but a few remnants of the CCC infrastructure remain.

In my view, the park lost something special that will never be replaced, and is now a less interesting place.

exilencfc

I really wanted to go there. Maybe one day

mandolino

I worked in Syria in the 90s, in Deir ez Zor, and heard many good things about Aleppo. I always wanted to go there. One of those cultural and historical crossroads kind of places, multicultural.

Last year in Australia I met a recent Syrian immigrant from Aleppo who told me , forget it, the place is wrecked, it has been taken over by militants and gangsters . He was naturally very upset. I hope for his sake (and mine) the people can find peace and the town and society there can be restored in some degree .