motis
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Post by motis on Aug 2, 2005 5:28:14 GMT 7
Hi all, I haven't been around much 'cause I've been ferociously busy with my new project(s), which will be launching very soon now. I recently moved to the suburbs and made a strange discovery... take a look for yourself: www.iec-edu.org/disgraceland/disgraceland.html |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Aug 2, 2005 9:22:55 GMT 7
weird, but somehow appealing.
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gengrant
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Post by gengrant on Aug 2, 2005 9:45:29 GMT 7
surprisingly clean for being out-of-business...and well manicured landscaping too...weird...but to quote Nobby...strangely 'appealing'...  |
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Post by acjade on Aug 2, 2005 9:50:13 GMT 7
Okay Saloonies. Here's our chance. Let's buy it and turn it into a summer camp. During Semester we'll lease it out to Kid's Castle.
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Post by con's fly is open on Aug 2, 2005 10:41:43 GMT 7
 I needed that. Magnificient! Damn, I already made vacation plans. God, I'd LOVE to live there! Lucky old woman. Hey, Motis, okay to send the link around? |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Aug 2, 2005 11:23:27 GMT 7
You know, I was thinking something simlarly. I wonder how much it would cost?
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Post by LJ on Aug 2, 2005 13:34:24 GMT 7
That's distrubing  |
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Post by Seth on Aug 2, 2005 13:44:25 GMT 7
The Huamei school in Hanzhou was built over the failed amusement park 'Americaland' featuring the White House, Mount Rushmore, the Washington Monument, etc. The teacher apartments were located in 'Americatown' which really did look like a small American cityfront. Every morning annoying Chinapop music would blare out of the Seattle space needle.
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motis
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Post by motis on Aug 2, 2005 19:17:51 GMT 7
Hey, Motis, okay to send the link around? Sure... in fact, I'd really love to see that site get some high traffic. If you know of a place to send the link that might get lots of eyeballs on Disgraceland, please do. |
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Post by con's fly is open on Aug 2, 2005 21:59:13 GMT 7
Good, 'cuz I already posted it at Zefrank. I know a couple of...
-hey, is there a term for folks who have giant address books, and always find and send around loads of stuff? You'd think there'd be a word for them.
Anyway, I'll deluge my contacts. It should spread pretty quickly- damn funny.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 3, 2005 0:23:41 GMT 7
I was privileged to see the Disgraceland series a few weeks ago. Absolutely amazing stuff!
Welcome back, Motis...
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Post by con's fly is open on Aug 3, 2005 11:59:00 GMT 7
Motis, remember saying "it's more interesting than it ever could been been while it was open"? I agree emphatically. As i knocked through all your photos, I pictured sitting in an electric cart with a bunch of other tourists, snapping photos and laughing as you gave the tour, talking through a bullhorn.
Disgraceland: the Ghost Theme Park. get a chinese funny guy for the locals, you for the foreigners: might be a side business.
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motis
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Post by motis on Aug 6, 2005 14:23:12 GMT 7
I could give a hell of a tour of this place. SEND TOURISTS.
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Post by Ruth on Aug 25, 2005 14:20:42 GMT 7
I just took the 'tour'. Great pics and hilarious comments. I remember reading about this place in one of the text books here. Except no one told me it was closed.
Does anyone know when it was built? closed?
For summer camp - I have dibs on teaching my kids under the Banyan trees. Either that or under dry Niagara Falls.
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Wolf
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Post by Wolf on Sept 8, 2005 12:08:02 GMT 7
That's wrong on so many levels that I'd have to be a Zen master to count them all. |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Sept 8, 2005 13:39:36 GMT 7
none?
seriously, it would make a great paintball feild.
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Wolf
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Post by Wolf on Sept 8, 2005 14:18:17 GMT 7
none? seriously, it would make a great paintball feild. That indeed would be true. What I was referring to was the fact that they had planned to entertain people with concrete trees. That's wrong. Maybe we could invite the dance school students to play. |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Sept 8, 2005 14:52:30 GMT 7
I meant that zen for many could be none.
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Post by Nate M on Jul 13, 2006 12:56:57 GMT 7
Hey Motis, do you still have this website lying around somewhere? I thought this was truly one of the best photothreads the Saloon, nay, the world, has seen.
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Post by icebear on Jul 13, 2006 13:41:12 GMT 7
Word, I'm curious to see what all the huff was about.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 13, 2006 14:32:49 GMT 7
Is it gone? I hope not. It was m'kaying brilliant.
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Post by teleplayer on Jul 14, 2006 0:31:53 GMT 7
Motis' link didn't open for me today. A quick Google search turned up www.jlasso.com/disgraceland/ fpr anyone having similar problems. What a place! |
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Post by icebear on Jul 14, 2006 0:58:31 GMT 7
Sooo bizarre! And damn, 10 Chinese students to a dorm room? No wonder us Western Devils are so appealing to them, what with our single size beds all to ourselves! Kings among men.
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Jul 14, 2006 1:49:02 GMT 7
Wow! Just how big is that place???
"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
Robert A. Heinlein
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Post by Newbs on Jul 14, 2006 4:10:45 GMT 7
Ahh, Disgraceland, the krappiest kingdom of them all.
Thanks Nate, TP, everyone for rekindling old memories.
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