Posted on 05/24/2017 1:13:00 PM PDT by 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.
Why would someone fill in a pool with concrete?.....So they wouldn’t get sued up the Wazoo for someone drowning or jumping into an empty pool?
Actually, there are a lot of great products that I dont seem to hear about until its being pulled. I seriously wonder if there are really that many companies trying to sell products without advertising or if there is something wrong with the way audience targeting is still formulated. When I do hear of reasons something is pulled it does often seem that the wrong demographic is targeted, then again, I dont have a degree in marketing so....
LOL
49 photos at the link if anyone cares to scan thru them.
Imagine if it were open today how much fun it would be to battle alligators in the log flume and lazy river?
The Schlitterbahn is still going and blowing.
Exactly. Why pay extra to create a mess which reduces the usefulness of your land? This applies whether you sell it to someone else or use it for other purposes later.
I understand getting rid of the pool for liability reasons. I don’t understand why concrete is the preferred way to do it.
The top hat is a plant, like the dolls the photographers like to plant on bombed out so-called Palestinian rubble.
You can always tell a liberal weenie dirt-bag when he names his picture book about out-of-business sites
“Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation.”
That's what I was thinking.
They still could have eliminated their liability problem by just filling it with dirt. Would have been a helluva lot cheaper, too.
I looked at them all carefully. That sort of photo album intrigues me.
I didn’t spend a lot of time looking but did scan thru them.
That property was left and mostly never touched again.
Where did you get the idea that he’s trespassing? I didn’t see that in the article. He could certainly have gone to the effort of getting the property owners’ permission for the shoots.
Yup. Of course it’s an obvious plant. And it’s not a very good photograph. That reminds me that it’s photography season again. Time to get the fisheye out for some street fun.
Jurassic Park, Part 16, coming to a theater near you after we finishing milking your wallet with the current new one coming out this year.
We do that normally here...............
At Disney World they are always building something. The concrete may have been extra that was leftovers from some jobs and dumped.
I’m sure they had their reasons, financially, judicially and environmentally.........................
I have a fallout shelter under my back yard, and if I do not keep it full of water it rises a little, and now there is a rectangular outline on my lawn.
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