She Is Abandoned

DATE: Aug 27, 2005   PHOTOGRAPHER: Cherry

DISCO SAYS: “The first time I saw this place, I knew it was special. There was something so...deliciously tragic about it. People used to come here for amusement, for fun. They'd pay their money, and take a ride. They'd forget about their worries and enjoy the thrills of the fair.

But then, the park was shut down, for 'reasons unknown' The rumors of deaths and the ghosts that accompany them still haunt these buildings. What was once a setting for fun and frolics is now...nothing. Abandoned. Standing, but not operating.

Camping overnight waiting for dawn to break, delirious with cold and fatigue, I swore I heard the echoes of long-gone laughter. But there's nothing left to laugh at in this derelict setting, the setting for my second set. So don't laugh, just marvel at it's beauty, because only with abandon can true beauty be achieved x”