I think I'm about the same age as Sarah, and I grew up in the Poconos, so everything in that paragraph is in my wheelhouse. We went to Great Adventure about once a year, Action Park once (I think mostly because my parents wanted to check out the wave pool, which I don't remember being as scary as some reports say it was, but maybe that's because we also went to the less predictable real ocean often).
I didn't know there was a Mt. Airy Lodge true crime rabbit hole out there, but I'm going to check it out now. I spent a couple of summers waiting tables at Penn Hills (another area couples resort, which was a bizarre but high paying experience), which a few years ago was the subject of several of those "creepy abandoned places" photo compilations. (it was kind of creepy even when it wasn't abandoned, tbh)
It’s a shame Action Park was a leetle before my time because I’m just the deviant to enjoy such a thrill. I Google Image-searched “abandoned Poconos resorts” and I wouldn’t mind vacationing in those squalid abandoned love nests. Also if we’re loosely compiling a list of the best tri-state jingles I’d like to nominate “Please Mr. D’agostino” because it’s often swimming around in my head. And “Someone made a store just for me, someone has my kind of qualityyy...” Ugh the classics. Love Food Emporium.
I think I'm about the same age as Sarah, and I grew up in the Poconos, so everything in that paragraph is in my wheelhouse. We went to Great Adventure about once a year, Action Park once (I think mostly because my parents wanted to check out the wave pool, which I don't remember being as scary as some reports say it was, but maybe that's because we also went to the less predictable real ocean often).
I didn't know there was a Mt. Airy Lodge true crime rabbit hole out there, but I'm going to check it out now. I spent a couple of summers waiting tables at Penn Hills (another area couples resort, which was a bizarre but high paying experience), which a few years ago was the subject of several of those "creepy abandoned places" photo compilations. (it was kind of creepy even when it wasn't abandoned, tbh)
Here's my man Joe Reid on Class Action Park: https://www.primetimer.com/features/class-action-park-will-make-you-wonder-how-any-teen-survived-the-80s
It’s a shame Action Park was a leetle before my time because I’m just the deviant to enjoy such a thrill. I Google Image-searched “abandoned Poconos resorts” and I wouldn’t mind vacationing in those squalid abandoned love nests. Also if we’re loosely compiling a list of the best tri-state jingles I’d like to nominate “Please Mr. D’agostino” because it’s often swimming around in my head. And “Someone made a store just for me, someone has my kind of qualityyy...” Ugh the classics. Love Food Emporium.