a lot of history," police Chief James Craig said at the time. Police and fire officials said it was doubtful the aging vessel could be salvaged. Claire caught fire while docked at a marina east of downtown Detroit. In 2018, a floating piece of nostalgia was gutted by fire when flames roared through one of two historic steamships that once ferried people to the island from U.S. Some of the former park's structures were also demolished in recent years, including the main tower, dubbed the Space Needle. The relic was torn down in a controlled demolition in 2021.Īt the time, the developer said it was demolished because "health and safety concerns." Many of the park's rides, over the years, were sold to other amusement parks following the closure, but some parts of the famous site remain, including a massive dance hall that now sits abandoned. More than two decades later, the excited shrills of children being whirled on rides, the glowing Ferris wheel lights and the soft scent of French fries and candied apples in the air, have now all been replaced by an eerie silence and emptiness. Abandoned Western Village Cascade Park Trinity Loop Castle dOultremont Bongoland Ruins Peter Strauss. A10412.The passageway to the amusement park from the Boblo Island docks. The fun and rides stopped, but the memories linger. © Flight Centre Travel Group Limited trading as Flight Centre ABN 25 003 377 188 ACN 003 377 188 ATAS - Travel Accredited No.
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Tours of the abandoned park ran until last year when the city council put up a perimeter fence to protect the remaining rides. When it closed, due to falling visitor numbers, owner Norbert Witte packed up six of the park’s most popular rides into shipping containers and had them sent to Peru – a new park in Lima never quite took off and Witte’s problems grew when some of the rides were shipped back to Germany and customs officers discovered 167 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the mast of the Flying Carpet. Shut in 2001, Berlin’s Spreepark opened in 1969 as East Germany’s only amusement park and welcomed 1.5 million visitors a year in its heyday. Spreepark has a history (Image: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty)
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