What we've lost — and what we've found — in abandoned theme parks
There's something fascinating about the life and demise of theme parks — the taste of nostalgia, that everything has an end, the unforgiving churn of capitalism, the loss of beloved structures.
There's something romantic, a bit sad, and strangely enthralling about the failure of a theme park.
Growing up in Houston, the memory of the AstroWorld amusement park loomed like a ghost. The park officially shut its doors a day before my 10th birthday in 2005, and it was soon demolished to make way for a parking lot.
Something about the sight of abandoned and dilapidated theme
