Every month, we take a select number of photos from the AbandonedFL Flickr group and showcase here. This month, we say goodbye to Splendid China, the well-known defunct theme park in Kissimmee, as it’s in the process of demolition to make way for condos. sfldp gives us a look at the park in it’s final [...]
Photo(from chayofrank.com) In 1967, architect Chayo Frank was tasked with designing an office building for his father’s architectural woodworking and store fixture manufacturing business, Amertec-Granada Inc. With the use of sprayed concrete construction, he was able to have his design plan realized which involved a combination free-form aesthetics; parts of the building were completely free-form [...]
Photo(Bullet, 2013): Since the last time I visited the stadium, it has gone from bad to worse. Two years ago, I wrote about the Marine Marine Stadium, abandoned by the city of Miami after they condemned the stadium as unsafe, though that was later proved false after further inspections and was most likely abandoned for [...]
Photo(Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida; Florida Memory, 192-): A shot of the mansion before it became covered in vines. William John Howey was born on January 19, 1876 in Odin, Illinois. He began selling insurance at 16-years-old and by 1900 began developing land and towns for the railroad in Oklahoma. He opened the [...]
Miracle Strip Amusement Park opened in 1963 with the Starliner Roller Coaster as it’s main attraction. Located across from the beach in Panama City, the park did not look like your average theme park and resembled the traditional seaside boardwalks of the past. The park featured many of the typical rides you would find at [...]