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 rcbif
 |  | A moment of silence Please........
< on 6/12/2010 5:38 PM >
|  | | | The Chippewa lake amusement park "The Coaster" was torn down yesterday.
The park has been slowly cleared out with just a few rides and structures left standing. With the developers receiving stimulus money, demolition has started back up. The hamburger stand is next they say.
Feel free to add your own pics
R.I.P. "The Coaster"
1925-2010
above photo- bill bouslaugh
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phrenzee
     
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 1 on 6/12/2010 5:49 PM >
|  | | | That's sad. I only went there once, but it was a magical place.
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jellybeans95
 
Location: Middletown, OH
Gender: Female
That... is a really incredible synopsis!
| |  |  | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 2 on 6/12/2010 9:52 PM >
| | | | I didn't even realize there was still stuff there. Thought everything was long torn down.
Sad, it was one of the first places I explored. I loved going there and climbing the coaster track and relaxing out on the dock.
I just realized, some of my better shots are on another computer. I'll have to add those in later, maybe.
[last edit 6/12/2010 9:55 PM by jellybeans95 - edited 1 times]
dsankt: In fact, the day I die yall are welcome to form an orderly queue and run a train on my eye sockets. I'll be dead and frankly, will not give a f*ck.
budda: That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fuck me sideways this is insane.
~~~~~~ Because it's Cincinnati |
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 3 on 6/14/2010 2:07 PM >
| | | | Bummer! Is it still get in-able? I went there last March. My photos are in the DB.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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rcbif
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 4 on 6/14/2010 4:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
Bummer! Is it still get in-able? I went there last March. My photos are in the DB.
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There is supposed to be one last open self guided tour day the 19th. However with the coaster gone, and the hamburger stand up next, the only thing left really will be a few buildings, and the tumble bug and Ferris wheel. So I'm not sure if they will even have it. (The tour date was on a poster taped to the gate)
However if you mean entering on your own without permission, it's not possible, as there are guards/workers on site, and no brush/trees for coverage.
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Twisted Orchid
Gender: Female
My inner child is a mean little fuck
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 6 on 6/14/2010 7:28 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
Bummer! Is it still get in-able? I went there last March. My photos are in the DB.
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I love it! "get in-able"
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Dargon
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 7 on 6/15/2010 2:14 AM >
| | | | i have pictures of myself here as a kid, or maybe thats americana, or are they the same place, either way, ill try to find them
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rcbif
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 8 on 6/15/2010 9:42 PM >
| | | | The hamburger stand is gone now. Not as cool as the coaster, but still, it was an important structure.
R.I.P. Hamburger Stand
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EatsTooMuchJam
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| |  |  | | | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 9 on 6/15/2010 11:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
FYI: The coaster's name is not 'The Coaster', but 'The Big Dipper', and it had been at the park since 1925...
http://rcdb.com/452.htm
wish I could have gotten here before it was cleared out and taken down. Back before I was actively exploring regularly, I was a coaster/amusement park enthusiast, and this place intigued me as a dead amusement park, so much that I had incorperated a stop into a planned coaster road trip across the mid-northeast. It's actually because of researching photos of Chippewa Lake that I came upon the UE scene and got involved here, and sadly I never got to see it before it went...
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I'm still a coaster enthusiast and I went there about 3-4 (5?) years ago. Someday I'll get my photos processed and share.
Did you end up on your planned coaster trip?
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
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shotgun mario
Location: MSP
Gender: Male
MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member
| | | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 10 on 6/16/2010 2:33 AM >
| | | | nah, never did get to go. It was a 30ish day trip-- more a dream than a reality. Could have been sliced up into 3 or 4 trips easily though. I have it marked out somewhere, but in essence it went down to st. louis, went along through the southern appalachian hills and saw a few unique parks, stopped in the carolinas, headed north to NJ, cut to upper NY, down pennsylvania, lower ohio, moving north, then back to chicago. it was ~15 parks if I remember correctly, half of which I've already been to, but it would have been memorable.
If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public!
If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet!
Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! |
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AJHalliwell
Location: Stow, Ohio
Gender: Male
Ra Ra Ah-Ah-Ah, Ro-Ma Ro-Ma-Ma...
| | | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 12 on 6/16/2010 8:05 AM >
| | | | I walked that very same roller coaster path. I visited the park in 2006-7ish, pretty much the first abandoned place I explored with the thought and intent "I'm off to explore an abandoned building!" Alas, forever in my heart.
Coincidentally, years later in college I realized a close friend lived right next door to the park property and was one of the few people I'd met in real life who had heard of it.
*moment of silence offered, with bowed head*
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EatsTooMuchJam
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| | | | | | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 13 on 6/16/2010 1:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
nah, never did get to go. It was a 30ish day trip-- more a dream than a reality. Could have been sliced up into 3 or 4 trips easily though. I have it marked out somewhere, but in essence it went down to st. louis, went along through the southern appalachian hills and saw a few unique parks, stopped in the carolinas, headed north to NJ, cut to upper NY, down pennsylvania, lower ohio, moving north, then back to chicago. it was ~15 parks if I remember correctly, half of which I've already been to, but it would have been memorable.
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A 30 day coaster trip would be hella awesome. I did a 9-day coaster/UE trip (which bypassed Chippewa, strangely) - but my friends and I did Northern Ohio, Western NY, and Toronto before heading home... so 4 parks total in the 9 days, but also with Joliet, Harvey, and Manteno for UE as well as a bunch of UE in Toronto.
You may be ahead of me on coaster count. I thought I was over 100, but I made a list and found out that I'm only at 91 or 92. I hope to finally break the 100 mark this summer.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
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TCdrainer
Location: ur moms house
Gender: Male
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 14 on 6/17/2010 4:36 PM >
| | | | I too have a coaster-fetish. This is my first time seeing/hearing about this place. The last photo from the OP is amazing.
Sad.
"Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol." |
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hedkace
Location: MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 15 on 6/17/2010 6:24 PM >
| | | | You can almost feel the sadness coming off the pics 
A poor and forgotten place that brought smiles to the faces of many 
Great pics.
Thanks for sharing them.
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rcbif
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 16 on 6/19/2010 9:10 PM >
| | | | a few more before and after shots
1 year ago
today, after the developer hasn't worked on project for year. Nature takes over pretty fast.
hamburger stand 1 year ago
and gone today, torn down this week
the coasters lift hill main drive wheel/shaft 1 year ago
and today infront of the museum
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jellybeans95
Location: Middletown, OH
Gender: Female
That... is a really incredible synopsis!
| | | | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 17 on 6/21/2010 5:15 PM >
| | | | Didn't know they made a museum for the place. That's at least good news.
But hell.... those are some depressing shots man Good to see nature reclaiming the place, too bad it won't last.
dsankt: In fact, the day I die yall are welcome to form an orderly queue and run a train on my eye sockets. I'll be dead and frankly, will not give a f*ck.
budda: That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fuck me sideways this is insane.
~~~~~~ Because it's Cincinnati |
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sludgeman
Location: USA, Ohio, Cleveland
Gender: Male
climb everything
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 18 on 6/22/2010 3:23 PM >
| | | | What a bummer I liked that coaster but with every demolition something else must become abandoned. Right?
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webhead2009
| | Re: A moment of silence Please........
<Reply # 19 on 6/29/2010 9:30 PM >
| | | | I've been down to this place with my UE buddy when he went down to visit his girlfriend near Cleveland Ohio. Sorry for such small pics, transferred them from one picture site to another and it lost it's size.
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