Disappointed Tourist
Ellen Harvey

Tag: Amusement

El Bosque Encantado

La Garita, Alajuela, Costa Rica Closed 1995 The Disappointed Tourist: El Bosque Encantado, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. The “Bosque Encantado” was one of the most important amusement parks in the 70’s and 80’s in Costa Rica. I was 3 or 4 […]

Brandybucks

Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK

Closed 1998

CBGB

New York, New York, USA

Closed 2006

Dreamland

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Burned 1911

Dreamland

Margate, Kent, England, UK

Closed 2005

Fenice

Venice, Italy

Arson 1996

Idora Park

Oakland, California, USA Demolished 1929 My grandparents always talked about this theme park and going there as children. Chrissy H. Idora Park was an amusement park constructed by The Realty Syndicate in 1904 in Ayala Park and leased by the Ingersoll Pleasure and Amusement Park Co. In addition to several roller coasters, the park also had […]

Luna Park

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Burned 1944

Madison Square Garden II

New York, New York, USA Demolished 1926 This isn’t my own memory, but I interviewed the novelist Louis Auchincloss years ago, and he was endlessly nostalgic not only for the New York he used to know (he was born in 1917) but for the New York he had heard about from his grandparents. “I think,” […]

Maltepe Süreyya Beach

Instanbul, Turkey Filled-in 1980s This was a meeting point for young people’s summer joy and dreams . . . but today the sea is not there anymore! Ediz T. This was a beloved beach outside of Istanbul. The city approved plans to fill in the beach in 1976 and since the 1980s the little pavilion […]

Pleasurama

Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK

Closed 1998

Riverview

Roscoe Village, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Demolished 1967