Opuszczone miasteczko w USA
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One of the old games for visitors still has tickets available. MAGGIE VALLEY, USA: STEP INSIDE this deserted Wild West theme park on top of a mountain that closed a decade ago after going bankrupt - and now its only inhabitants are the vultures that circle the abandoned rides. Photos of the park show overgrown rollercoasters, a deserted saloon, arcade games still covered in fair tickets, and eerie animatronic animals. Ghost Town in the Sky, on Buck Mountain in Maggie Valley, USA, first opened in May 1961 and quickly became a popular attraction, putting on Western standoff reenactments alongside their rides. However, from the late eighties onwards many of the rides were often closed and breaking down regularly, with attendance dropping from 620,000 people per year to just 360,000 people per year. After a chairlift malfunction in 2002, the theme park closed down, reopening in 2007 but later filing for bankruptcy in 2009 after financial problems and allegations of not paying its employees. In 2010, the walls around the theme park gave way and caused a mudslide that led 40 homes to be evacuated and caused damage to three. Over the years there have been several attempts to reopen the park, but it has remained abandoned since the mudslide. Last month, the park's owner, Alaska Presley (98) passed away, leaving it ownerless with an uncertain future. The theme park was explored by photographer Ben James from the UK, who documented the park in video and photos. mediadrumimages/places_forgotten
2022-05-17
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