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There was a Frisch’s Big Boy restaurant next door.

For years while we lived in Cincinnati my wife and kids and I went here every week.

This park should had never closed! If they had did an up grade, like all the other parks in Orlando Florida, then this park would be poppin like every other park in the world, but no its in cincinnati Ohio where everything go out of business for no reason

I loved this place so much as a kid/ teenager. I spent my life there from age 6 to 17 . It was so much better than kings island when it came to a water park.

Used make a trip there from Grissom AFB, IN on the weekends back in the 80's for a day of splashing and sun. Great place for families to relax for the day. Loved the video. It brought back wonderful memories.

The Beach water Park closed for Good at in 2020. Because I remember the last time when they were open in 2019 was my last season pass I had to the Beach water park they closed for Good in 2020. But in 2012 the Beach water park went bankrupt and clothes for that year and then in 2013 they got bought out by the new owners reopen stay open for another 6 years closed for good in 2020 never reopen.

It’s 102 right now in Cincinnati so what do you mean if there is ever sun in Cincinnati. Just say you’ve never been here before

I just seen 15 pics of the inside of my old school 😢 so I'm looking around TH-cam to see if there are any videos

I found this channel after looking for videos about the Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio. But these are some cool videos

This place is now high grain brewing fyi

My grandmother worked at that sunoco across the street for over 20 years mid 70s to late 90s it used to be called king kwik we used to go to the alley a lot when i was in town lots of fun

I've lived in Cincinnati for a long time. A family member told me of when he worked here; they incinerated things in the 1960s that weren't really "trash". His old pay stubs show that he really worked here, but we had questions about some of his stories. Weird.

That's a shame, my prom was there in 1974.

This is in East Walnut Hills neighborhood, not Clifton. Otherwise great video very informative.

Great music, nice choice. I can feel it in my soul

In the 1980s, I would drive by the King Records building stood empty. I would go there every now and then to see if the building was still ok. I never understood why it wasn't a historic building. A few blocks away in Evanston is the home where Doris Day was born. You would think it would be some kind of treasure for Cincinnati as well.

There is a local company that maintains and makes the Frischs statutues. They also did the flying pig statutes around town and the Squirrel ones in Glendale

10700 Medallion Dr

Why did you not break in???

The cliff was dangerous inwent airborn in it and almost out of it. Then they had another slide that dropped you out several feet above a pool. That was freaking insane. It was a lot better of a park than surf Cincinnati

WLW climbs way more than 400 feet….more like 800 feet. Nice video…so sad to see the VOA towers coming down. I think that was big mistake in case cyber communication goes down. All part of the plan.

I just saw this pop up on my recommended, I worked here during 2019 into 2020. The covid epidemic was not at all what took this place out, it was the owner. That man left on a vacation during the time he needed to finish up my paperwork to start getting paid, so as I was a week in I wasnt going to get paid til he returned. The managers then had no idea of my age as he never finished the paperwork and I would constantly be cut from work or a break at random due to them forgetting my age (19 at the time, adults did not get breaks for whatever reason). Then the managers were either fresh or had never managed before as i was used in 2 different areas holding down 200 tickets in the usher section by myself, even though I had 4 other ushers. The nail in the coffin is how the managers treated some employees as they could just show up and choose what they wanted to do for the day, and others were forced to either be cleanup or usher. So if you were working that day with a lazy kiss ass well gl. Did i forget to mention that they only give you 1 work shirt and you cant even get another one without paying 15$ so when a certain someone came in missing his shirt he was forced to wear a female coworkers shirt. FUCKIN DISGRACEFUL

Meet at the flag pole

Music is too loud

I went to Bloom 1962-1965

Wow this is amazing I remember my cousins went to this school they lived right across the street

I can't listen to this guy.

They finally demolished this building last April. I was staying at the Comfort Inn nearby and woke up to the sounds of the excavators lmfao

Hey man, thanks for this. Was going through my family tree records and my ancestors attended this church early 1800's they had 11 children 😳 and many were baptized here. I'll never travel to see this being in the PNW. You did an amazing job on this 🤍

One of the first!!! Let me know if you wanna know more 😂😂😂

One of the first!!!

😂 i use to work there Usher/server

THANK YOU MATTHEW, my great granmother is there. And THANK YOU for the respectful soft music.

EXCELLENT REPORT MATTHEW!! Almost a mini documentary! With some of the abandoned places around Cincinnati you've covered, including this one, it would be great if pictures or film of their construction, grand opening, the hight of their success, maybe when celebrities were there, etc., could be added to your videos to show the dramatic contrast. I know that is not always possible, I've tried to find such archives online for abandoned or demolished places in Cincinnati, like COLUMBIA SCHOOL, LAIN SEMENARY, OAKLEY DRIVE IN, SWIFTON SHOPPING CENTER, TRI COUNTY MALL, and many abandoned or reperposed early neighborhood walk in theaters, I did not realize how many reperposed old walk in theaters are still around until recently. I could not find any such archives on LaSourdsville Lake/AMERICANA, compared to for example CONEY ISLAND. And I recently read another SMALLER short lived amusement park just up the road from CONEY ISLAND and, according to the article I read, remains are still there. I also read there was once a drag racing track in the now PARK area on the opposite side of LUNKEN AIRPORT divided by BEECHMONT. The only two with tons of archival info is CINCINNATI GARDENS and RIVERFRONT STADIUM. I'd love to see that type of info on abandoned industrial buildings. If it is possible to find pictures of places when they were doing great, would you consider adding them to your videos? I love your work! THANK YOU!

Has anyone tried to go and explore this place?

Hidden saviour of the world peace. God bless VOA forever.

I've seen it but never had the chance to explore or research it

I lived not too far from bloom on West McMicken Street. I went to Heberle Elementary. Kindergarten through fourth grade 1963-1968. Nice to see Bloom School but sad to see the condition it is in today!

I can’t believe e this happened it’s also so creepy going past it on the highway

Is it possible to buy one of the Big Boy statues ? I don't live in Cincy anymore but I'd be interested in buying one.

The music makes it very difficult to follow the narrative!

This is in Walnut Hills.

Man I remember sooo many good memories going here with my cousin when I was a kid thank you for sharing this

I remember the Cliff. My buddy Eddie and his mom took me here. Eddie passed in 2013. Makes me sad to think. alot of good memories here

Can you investigate camp Washington’s warehouses next? I drive by them daily and they’re super mysterious and intriguing. Or could you look into the buildings just outside of camp washingt on I-75 with boarded up windows?

Is it safe to walk through that area during the day? I find walking through historic areas fascinating but don't want to interrupt anyone's territory.

@tomrees4812 Frederick Lunkenheimer was my great great grandfather. In the family bible his daughter, Ella (my great grandmother) gifted him is a Lunkenheimer family tree put together in 1946. Unfortunately there’s nothing shown of Frederick Lunkenheimer’s family in Germany; only his descendants. Sadly I have no previous ancestral knowledge.

As a kid living in former Soc. country when selecting a radio station from Greece (Salonic) late evening ,VOA was loud and clear for few seconds, then a very strong noise was covering it for the length of transmission which was about half hour …

Went there as a kid mainly between the beach & soak city. Really fun but good times come to an end. Sad to hear about this stuff because it’ll never come back

I went there in the early 90's