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Back in December 2010, my family and I went on a holiday tour around Syria because of its Classical and Islamic history as well as thinking “It’ll be fun!” Needless to say, it was. Among the many many many memories that I have made while being there, this one sometimes stands out from the rest: an old (very old) mosque in Aleppo where an elderly woman threw candy at us when we were praying there.

A few months back, I was on a Wikipedia binge when I discovered that the minaret of that mosque has been destroyed by all the fighting going on there and that lot of stuff has happened in the very buildings that we had once visited. Normally I would feel ambivalent toward this, but nowadays I’ve been feeling very sad about the country where my family and I had once visited. Sometimes I’ve wondered what had happened to all the people we’ve met and the places we visited there.

So F!S, anyone out there who’ve also visited places that are now gone or destroyed?

Well, this doesn't really count, but....

I used to visit/live in these project apartments in East Boston when I was a kid. They got torn down for townhouses and new apartment buildings when I was a teenager, kind of miss them.

Store 24 got taken over by another chain, and now they're gone, too. :(

I dunno if this counts, but my childhood neighbourhood/home was burned down a couple of years back because of bushfires.

It was the house's second time through the fire, tho - gas leak the first time.

The days are very long where I live this time of year, so some days I walk the few miles home from work in the evenings. Work is in the same general area as the place I went to high school, so a few weeks ago I walked the same route home as I used to take from school. Most of it's the same; the shrubs have grown up or new yards have been planted, there're more vegetable gardens in front yards than there used to be and fewer cats and dogs roaming around to be petted. And over a decade ago, there was a little house, almost a sort of fairy-tale cottage, with roses over the front gate and narcissus and other sweet-smelling bulbs in spring, and flowers just everywhere, and some apple trees. It was on a little corner lot, and I always smiled and stuck my nose in all the flowers and petted the cats that must have lived there. I never saw any people but I always imagined the house must have belonged to a sweet old granny type.

There's a McMansion being built on that lot. Almost all the flowers are gone; there's a few struggling to grow under and around the general construction detritus, but judging by the piles of cement paving blocks and flats of generic greenery sitting in the driveway that used to be a flower bed, even those will be yanked up or weed-killered into oblivion soon... I used to daydream about living in that house and puttering around the garden.

Not sure if it counts, but we sold the house I grew up in several months back. Mum drove by it a few weeks ago and reported that they chopped down the HUGE liquidambar tree in the back ;_; I miss my tree.

Several stores and restaurants in my old hometown, including a couple where I worked and some I walked by often but never went in, are now empty/repurposed/burnt down, etc. The house where I grew up has been renovated beyond recognition and sold for use as the office of our old family business (also sold.) A bunch of my mother's plants were gone last time I was there, and I'm sure more are gone by now. The little naval-themed study my dad had built up in the loft of the old barn that I used to play in all the time...gone.

Hell, if it wasn't still on the map I wouldn't even be sure the town itself is still there...

There was a waterpark called Surf Cincinnati that I used to go to every summer. It was shuttered years ago -- I saw some pictures of it a couple years ago and holy fuck depressing.

Like it's physically still there, but it's not open to the public anymore. I don't think there's anything sadder than an amusement park or waterpark or whatever that's been shut down.

Not quite the same thing, but my dad often likes to go adventuring to places that have, for lack of a better word, died. Houses that are falling apart, decommissioned military places that are little more than concrete slabs, we went to the Salton Sea once too and damn, talk about a dead place! Usually I've never been there before, but he has and he has stories to tell about them while we look at ruined things and find weird old stuff and I imagine what it must have been like when people were actually there and using it. Kind of depressing really, but it's pretty fascinating and often fun in its way.

The entire suburb I grew up in has changed to the point of unrecognizability. It used to be the "working class" section of town with run-down houses and cars on lawns and industrial lots, but about ten years ago when the housing boom started wealthy real estate types decided to take advantage of the relatively cheap market to buy out all of the poor people and replace everything with luxury condos and strip malls.

I went back there recently and it's nothing but cul de sacs with identical lego houses, fancy coffee shops, and stores like Bed Bath and Beyond.

It's more the place I didn't visit and is now gone: The World Trade Center. I was there with my father almost exactly a year before 9/11 and we were walking by the building and he asked me if I wanted to visit it. And I was was jet-lagged and it was warm and I ws just "Meh, no, not really".
Kind of wish I'd chosen differently.

that's really sad

the main things i can think of are not really places in the conventional sense, but there's a historic swinging bridge in my hometown that i used to like when i was kid that was torn down by some local business for some reason, and at a local state park one of its iconic rock formations apparently finally broke off and collapsed into the lake

aside from that, there was an old farmhouse i lived in for a year and a half that's since been bulldozed, filled in, and converted into a field

Athens (yes, the one in Greece) isn't gone per se, but it's weird to spend a month there and a year or two later watch it being burned due to riots and protests. Just seeing places you went to on TV being Molotov cocktail'd (Monastaraki Square and the Starbuck's there included) is rather depressing. I'm sure there's been more damage as Greece is/was constantly in the news, also. I loved it there. :(

That's horrible, I have nothing that devastating to share (I'm always sad when historic and ancient structures get destroyed). The closest thing I can think of is Opryland, this theme park that used to exist in Nashville until they tore it down to build a shopping mall (with mostly outlet stores, which is like... tackier than Opryland ever was, really)

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