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Decrepit desert water park may find new life
Decrepit desert water park may find new life

Few sites are sadder, existentially so, than an abandoned amusement park. Once a place of fun and frivolity, magic moments and cherished memories, it gets reduced through time and neglect to a wind-swept shell of itself, a crumbling monument to the ethereality of youthful glee. If you pull off Interstate 15 at the Hacienda Road exit, roughly halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the sight of what, decades ago, had been a thriving water park with slides and rides, popcorn and snow cones, pools and waterfalls to compete with the desert heat, is like observing a modern ghost town ¿ all the more disheartening because it's of our generation, not some distant Old West relic. ...