Eerie Pics Show Abandoned Disney Park 15 Years Later

www.nbcnewyork.com ^ | 05-24-2017 | Seph Lawless

[Red Badger]

Walt Disney World's first water park, Disney River Country, closed 25 years after debuting in 1976. It has remained shut for more than 15 years. The park's pool was filled in with concrete last year.

Seph Lawless, a Cleveland-based photographer whose work includes abandoned spaces like the inside of the vacant Chicago-area Lincoln Mall, took photos of the empty Disney River Country for a series available in his forthcoming book, "Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation."

You can check out more of Lawless' work on his website, YouTube channel and Instagram.

CORRECTION (May 24, 2017, 10 a.m.): Disney River Country was Walt Disney World’s first water park, not Walt Disney World’s first theme park, as an earlier version of this gallery said.

[Red Badger]

Many pics at the link. Looks like a Post-Apocalyptic ghost town. Would make some good movies settings for such.................

[posterchild]

Why would someone fill in a pool with concrete?

[loungitude]

Why would someone fill in a pool with concrete?
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No kidding. I’d have used beer.

[smileyface]

Liability

[Red Badger]

Safety. Lawsuits. It’s called ‘an attractive nuisance’ here in Florida.................

[PGR88]

Was this Disney’s operation in Chernobyl?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Mosquito and alligator control. Smells and swamp-odors.

[stars & stripes forever]

Looks like an environmental hazard and mosquito, alligator, snake incubator. Why doesn’t the EPA condemn it?

[rainee]

Skateboarders? ha

[Red Badger]

Because it’s a mosquito, alligator, snake incubator. ...................

[Red Badger]

About the same...............

[stars & stripes forever]

[Why would someone fill in a pool with concrete?]

Makes a person wonder who is at the bottom of the pool.

[Michael.SF.]

It’s called ‘an attractive nuisance’

That was what I called my first wife.

[alloysteel]

It freezes the alligators and snapping turtles in place....

Either the beer OR the concrete.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A photographer who trespasses at closed malls and waterparks to document their decay is named Lawless.

Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone remember Dogpatch, south of Harrison Arkansas?

[Red Badger]

I heard of it............

[al baby]

Well to keep it from floating on rising ground water

[Fido969]

Why would someone fill in a pool with concrete?

To keep the bodies from floating to the top.

[the_Watchman]

Anyone remember Dogpatch, south of Harrison Arkansas?

My wife and I had our honeymoon in Branson in 1972. We went down to Dogpatch, but concluded that it was too expensive for our meager pocketbook. We were college students at the time.