Disappointed Tourist
Ellen Harvey

Tag: Demolished

Fonthill Abbey

Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, England, UK

Demolished 1845

Graham’s Rib Station

Springfield, Missouri, USA Closed 1995 Black soldiers stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, near Rolla, Missouri, on Route 66, were shut out of local restaurants and nightclubs, and had to drive eighty miles to Graham’s Rib Station, in Springfield, Missouri, for food, fun and entertainment. It wasn’t listed in the Green Book, but the on-site motel, […]

Howard Johnsons

Henderson, Kentucky, USA Closed 1990 It’s not the sign that is important to me, but what it stands for. Not so much a bygone era but more representing the overall aesthetic of Howard Johnson’s and the way it defined an period in American history and the American landscape. For instance, they hired Jacques Pépin in […]

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 […]

Kenure House

Rush, Ireland Demolished 1978 It’s an archival image of a now demolished “Big House” from Rush, in north County Dublin. The granite portico of the house remains, surrounded by a housing estate. I photographed the portico as a teenager, and have often wondered about the rest of the house. The wonders of the Internet have […]

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,” […]

Masonic Temple Building

Chicago, Illinois, USA Demolished 1939  I love the idea of a skyscraper that is also a temple of masons! Anon. The Masonic Temple Building was an early Chicago skyscraper designed by the firm of Burnham and Root, completed in 1892. With 21 stories, it was the tallest building in the city until the 1920s. It was […]