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What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes.

It closed in 2020 and never reopened because they had apparently been avoiding paying bills for years. It wasn’t just the pandemic. It was visible from the freeway, so I watched it slowly being demolished over the next couple years any time I passed by.

I haven’t found a water park that really compared to it yet. Most are either too small or part of a larger theme park, which is fine. It just seemed like the fact that it exclusively was a water park allowed it to focus more on the atmosphere and types of slides it had.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in San Diego, and grew up here. Open space. Yeah, we are really good about keeping some open spaces (typically national/state parks) but just random open space is all filled with urban sprawl now.

When I was a kid, there was an area of San Diego county that was a GIANT piece of private property. There was one dirt road that ran through it (likely an easement/eminent domain thing), connecting the east and west part of the county.

Decades ago, when I was in high school, we used to party, and do all kinds of dumb shit out there. It had been the same for so long that my parents also partied back there too many, many decades before. I know there were at least 2 cars buried out there. I had gotten a car stuck in the mud once myself (had to dig it out in the dark. that was super fun) It's all but gone now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where was this? We always used to go out to Proctor Valley to drink and "look for the Proctor Valley Monster" lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Black Mountain/Black Mountain Road. All of that shit along the 56, and west to where Carmel Valley used to end on the east side, up to the backside/south side of fairbanks, and down to mira mesa used to be open space/rolling hills.

this is a little before my time, but this is what I remember it looking like int he 80s/90s <- this was what black mountain rd used to look like, if it hadn't rained in like a month. If there was any rain it was a rutted out mess.

what it looks like now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, definitely familiar with that area. The sprawl that sprouted up in San Diego just over the last 20 years is crazy, not to mention the last 30-40. I've legit heard my older family members say "I remember when this was all orange groves" hahaha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My childhood home was built before the 5 freeway. My mother remembers playing in the trench they dug. The road to that house was dirt until well after I learned to drive. I’m old, but not THAT old. At least it doesn’t feel that way.

And yeah it was all groves, open space, and horse farms. I remember when Carmel valley didn’t really exist.