There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes.
It closed in 2020 and never reopened because they had apparently been avoiding paying bills for years. It wasn’t just the pandemic. It was visible from the freeway, so I watched it slowly being demolished over the next couple years any time I passed by.
I haven’t found a water park that really compared to it yet. Most are either too small or part of a larger theme park, which is fine. It just seemed like the fact that it exclusively was a water park allowed it to focus more on the atmosphere and types of slides it had.
There’s no grave marker for the old mall in my home town. Just a new, totally different mall.
An elementary school was torn down and a replacement built right next to it, on the same grounds. The old school I attended is now the new parking lot.
The church I attended as a child is gone. Luckily my belief was torn down years before that happened.
In essence my high school doesn’t exist, at least not as it did. It was dramatically reconstructed and hardly resembles the school I went to.
Of course these were things that were old when I knew them, and only continued to age to the point they needed replacing. The oldest stuff in my home town though, will outlast me.