ABANDONED LESOURDSVILLE LAKE: AMERICANA AMUSEMENT PARK AND DINER WHATS LEFT IN 2022
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2022
- On the site of the old abandoned Americana amusement park sits one of the final remnants. Ok lets back up. There were actually 2 parks that operated on the same piece of land. First was the larger of the parks LeSourdsville Lake/Americana. Then there was fantasy farm. Sit-in on the former site of Fantasy far is the Fantasy diner. Let's take a trip and see what gems lie inside this diner that use to be the park gift shop. We'll also se what remnants of the parks remain.
Old park footage
• Americana Park aka LeS...
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I'm 46 years old and live in Cincinnati and believe it or not in the 80s Americana was actually a competitor of kings island so sad
Been to both parks growing up, it still sad to see the parks gone.
We need amazing places like this again. Everything good is disappearing fast and soon there will be no reason to live other than to work and pay bills 😔
@@TiltedTripodMedia i agree im 57 now and just about everything has changed, kids today will never experiencewhat it was like growing up in my day.
@@donaldpyles8501 yeah and I think my generation wants to experience the good times as we are gravitating towards the past with thinks like cassettes and vinyl etc. sadly we will never go back to being a great county like we once were
@Negromancy who said kings island was abandoned. It’s definitely not as I’ve been filming episodes there over the last few years and plan to go this summer to document the new camp snoopy.
@Negromancy I don’t think he was specifically referencing Kings Island. He was probably referencing the two parks near Middletown and Coney Island that we’ve lost.
Even though the posters were for Americana, I think you were actually at Fantasy Farm. The entrance to Americana was just a tad farther south.
Yes your right
That first pavillion you showed at the end, my grandfather used to have his firefighter union picnics there. They're was a pool nearby, and my favorite ride, the Indy 500 cars that you had in your video
@@leehasselbeck453 oh wow thanks for the info.
Omg I don't know why but the tears are falling I think of me and my mom on that ride....
Yeah I wish we still had cool stuff like this but it’s all disappearing rapidly and nothing good is replacing it.
Some day soon it will be work home work home repeat.
Grew up w both parks. My dad worked for Nutone and they rented out the entire park (Americana). Went to Fantasy Farm too. I remember all the rides. I don't need a map. Hated the sky ride. Several people died in that lake. People swam in the lake b4 they built a pool. Great memories. Idk if my grandkids would like either bc they have Kings Island. I remember Coney Island too b4 Kings Island opened. I was 6 maybe? Miss the old parks and their reasonable prices!!
I agree Kings Island is great since I live behind it however, I think all these parks could coexist together because they bring different things to the table. Sad that they’re mostly all gone, except for Kings Island.
Losing that park really sucked bad so many of us had so much fun there
Never getting a chance to experience sucks even worse😭
Thanks for sharing. I was born in Cincy and spent some of my childhood in Middletown. My grandad worked for Ryder/PIE and we would go to the park for teamsters day. I even worked the games one summer. What memories!
Wow that sounds cool. I never got to go unfortunately
I was at this park so many times back in the 80's as a kid, Middletown used to have so much more to do back in the day, they also lost the Putt Putt golf they had and the towne mall as well...
I remember the town mall visiting it from Michigan back in the mid 2000s then watching it rapidly die when I moved to Cincinnati. My mom enjoyed shopping at the elderbeerman
Had great times at both as a child. Went with my school and my mom. My mom won me one of there biggest stuffed animals in the late 70’s. I was so excited. Thank you for this video. My husband and I was just talking about both of these Amusement Parks today 6-27-2023. Had pictures in the little key ring lol. Thank you again.
Your welcome I wish I could have preserved it before it was mostly gone.
Great video!!! I'm 53 and have fond memories of this place from the 80s. My dad worked for CG@E and the company had their company picnics there. My brother and I had so much fun there. I actually preferred it over Kings Island, maybe cuz it wasn't as busy and you could keep riding over and over since lines were shorter. Thanks for the tour, so sad not much is left .
Yeah I wish I had had the chance to experience the place. Sadly I didn’t live in Ohio back then.
@@TiltedTripodMediaAs an adult I moved to Kentucky and I didn't even know it was abandoned until it was on the History channel show life after people and was so sad. Then started searching the Internet and through the years seen more and more of it disappearing.
@@jimsoutdooradventures2748 yeah I did get to see it before the main entrance was gone and there were still some rides left however you couldn’t go see it without risk of arrest. Sad there is nothing left although it’s awesome to eat at the fantasy diner.
@@TiltedTripodMedia Another guys channel I follow got caught shortly after he entered but the video showed the entrance. Adam the woo channel.Thanks again for the video, I subscribed!!!
@@jimsoutdooradventures2748 oh yeah I know him. We follow each other 🙂
The structure that you saw that you thought was a ride with the arches is actually like an amphitheater it used to have a cover they have concerts in it shows
Thanks for the info 😊
The railcars that say HOT haul steel slabs, and while not red or white hot, they ARE still very hot. Stand close enough and you can feel the heat coming off.
Yeah I use to see them all the time in Detroit coming from the rouge as my dad loved watching trains and those were very hot
Hello my name is Robert I used to live up in Ohio as a kid and I would visit this place wow the flash flood flood of memories I'm tearing up I can't believe they tore it down
Yeah what a waste that many of our amazing theme parks are gone
I want to tell you that I appreciate your video very much😢😢😢 I'm from Hamilton Ohio.. a hop skip and a jump away from Americana... I remember getting into there as a child with a can of RC cola... All my family's gone is some of the best memories I've ever had as a child was in that Park.... We'd love to get on the water slide and then get on the sizzler right after😂😂 and we'd hope to God that we wouldn't get stuck next to a big fat person. Just being honest that's what we thought 🤔 as children😂... So we wouldn't get crushed..... I needed a good cry
Awww I’m glad my video could bring back some happy memories. I wish I had lived near here before it closed so I could have documented it. It looked like it was amazing.
Been here as a kid and I always wondered what they did to the lake.. thank you so much for this ❤
Your welcome. It’s a tragedy that we lost it all
It really is a tragedy that we lost fantasy farm and Lasordesville/Americiana.
I kind of wondered what the area where the log ride was located looks like now.
Fantasy Farm and Americana was two different parks
I enjoyed your video. Brought back fun childhood memories of Fantasy Farms. You might want to do a little more research on locations for future videos.
Thanks glad you enjoyed it.
The electric rainbow is now at Strickers Grove
@@leehasselbeck453 yes and I’ve been on it.
The Little Dipper rollercoaster that use to operate at Americana is now at Sluggers and Putters in Canal Fulton, OH.
Oh wow that would be cool to see thanks
It crushed me when this closed
Sadly, I never got to experience most of the cool theme parks, including this one
I can’t believe they filled in the lake, I remember so many big fish being in there
Yeah I think filling in the lake was a huge mistake cuz they could have used it for the park
Lol. I remember the train running right through the park.
Yes the building at 16:19 was half a restaurant and the other half a haunted House I used to go and work at both hello Americana and fantasy farm
Cool thanks
Have you ever done a video on where Myers Lake Park once was in Canton, OH.
No! Is there anything left?
Idk. That's why I asked. I know the lake is still there, and so are the memories.
@@duanebooks8508 looking at google satellite it’s all housing now so there is no reason to make the 3 hr drive there.
Been watching your videos since I found the this one I went to that butler tech building my senior year for landscape and construction it’s a technical school. Any who the plan was In our landscape class is that we were gonna help the city turn it into what it is now but we never got to. But have you been to the rubber bowl in Akron ? It’s a abandoned football stadium it’s sweet
To my knowledge that was demolished a few years back around the time that I moved to Ohio and I never got a chance to go 😔 thanks for watching my videos😊
@@TiltedTripodMedia I just went back in 2021 they tore down a like section of the bleachers but the rest is still there if you look it up. I would take a drive out there and check it out it’s sweet!
@@dylanpincombe2990 I’ve been there recently and most everything is gone 😔
@@TiltedTripodMedia Aw dang that sucks then because I remember they had started tearing it down a few years ago but stopped for a long time.
@@dylanpincombe2990 yeah what you see in the video is all that’s left I highlighted the coolest stuff that was still left
Was a regular at LeSourdsville for many years. My best friend and I loved the dark ride haunted house. A little cheesy but I can still smell that musty wood smell. They used to have an Indian chief who would give bull whip demonstrations. Someone would hold a cigarette in their mouth and he would crack his whip and take the end off of the cigarette. They also threw knives at someone spinning on a large wheel. When it became Americana, it lost it's charm. Profit always trumps charm anyway. Great memories.
Sounds amazing
The last place you were the lake was on opposite side of the picnic pavilion
Oh that was a pavilion
The place that had the colorful pick nick table was the dombo ride
Wow that’s amazing
Your at phantasy farm not Americana it was next door to Americana .
Think that round building was where they had electric race cars maybe
Brick building was bathroom the big metal frame was put in years after
That's fantasy farm
Think that is fantasy farm which was next to Americana
Yes it was 😀
I worked at both of them as a child
Wow that’s cool
Americana closed in 2000’s I remember the last day
Yes it was the wip
I thought so
The hotel used to be A+
That doesn’t surprise me
Come from AK steel
Yes I figured
There were two parks back to back
Yeah and I wanted to do a separate video on the other one but there is less info on it to share
@@TiltedTripodMedia Fantasy Farm was for kids like 3 to 8 years old. There was a small scale train maybe a turnpike small kid rides the park was rather small but Le Sourdsville was a happening amusement park back in the 60 until maybe 80 with all kinds of rides. Later in the 70s they expanded the park putting in a water ride and an old time western setting on the no north west side of the park
Sky ride
Last place was a dinner and a haunted house
Do you mean the building at 16:19?
Yes
Bathroom