I went to Branson Missouri for several years. 70,s and 80,s with my Grandparents. The place we stayed out on lake shore drive is no longer there. But I remember the Branson from 50 years ago. I remember the resort owner tell me and my Grandfather. Well Branson is having a big surge of tourism. But he told us you watch it soon die off and slot of the motel and theaters being built will go dark and they will soon rot. I remember the tordnoe you talked about my wife and I were there on vacation when it hit. What a mess on the strip. Somewhere I have pictures of of the big mess on highway 76. I've not Bern back to Branson in probably 7 years. But want to get back and see for myself what the years have done to my home away from home. Thank you for the great video makes me sad to all the empty buildings.
That "roller coaster" was an attraction called Skysurfer. It belongs to Extreme Racing and had nothing to do with Celebration City as it opened after the park closed. Celebration City was purchased by Silver Dollar City's parent company due to the previous owners not being able to make the money they wanted to. SDC then made CC their "nighttime" attraction. Once SDC restructured to be open later, it made CC irrelevant so they closed it. Plans were discussed to make the land an aquarium but now that Branson has one, that is no longer the solution. The coasters train was moved to Dollywood, not sold as SDC's parent company owns it as well. The first theater was RFD-TV theater and was going to house the Acrobats of Shanghai in 2019. RFD-TV ended up not holding up their end of the deal so the acrobats left and RFD-TV has been trying to sell the theater. The acrobats then moved into what is now Mickey Gilley's Grand Shanghai Theater but were going to buy it out. Part of the deal was the restaurant (the one in your video) would stay Shindigs as Gilley had left it. The acrobats company closed the restaurant and was going to transform it into an Asian restaurant, thereby breaking the sale contract. Mickey Gilley then came back in to manage the theater but has not reopened the restaurant. The old motel has been closed for almost a decade as the city no longer wants a motel there and is trying to find a buyer to put in retail. Most of the other motels were long terms that were disgusting when it came to health and safety and the city is trying to phase them out.
Acrobats of China * and celebration city was donated to a church organization to commit tax fraud. If you were really from Branson you would know that.
That structure was the Sky Coaster. It was a short lived amusement but was not part of Celebration City. It came in a few years after the demise of Celebration City closed. Most of those old motels have been closed for many years also.
I live right outside Branson and I work in Branson and it's off season right now so it would be hard to tell if it is slow because of covid, I can tell you though that it seems to me that it has been slowing down for years, I know that some places though unfortunately are closed because of the plandemic, that church though I can say is jam packed every Sunday. That place behind the Queen Ann is full of tweekers
If its off season some of the places are simply closed for the winter. There was a tornado in 2012 that did a lot of damage. Insurances did not pay, the governor did not declare a disaster so they could not get funding to do repairs and simply had to abandoned their places because they could not afford the repairs themselves. And now with covid its been hard on everyone.
Its pretty bad. I'm a local, no to branson but close to. We went to Branson alot growing up. Its getting worse as rhe years go by. Lots of closed buildings. Its really sad. At one time I remember it used to take HOURS to drive down the main strip.
If you think Branson is dead, you haven't been here the last two weeks. Bumper to bumper up 76 again!! So glad there are red, yellow, blue routes to bypass it.. Lived here since 1986 and love it... Although now I live in Hollister. Check out Branson Tour Guides posts. Terry is amazing..
Also celebration city was end of strip was here there abandoned resole rename next to it was the other that had race car track and had highest roller coaster 🎢 then it mive bk to silver dollar city with other big rides though the bk roads hyw wasn't to fare from each other
We live near Branson and visit many times each year. It is much more upbeat than depicted in this post. Many venues remained open during Covid. Visitors throng the main highway. New homes, condos and apartments are under construction. The Landing, Silver Dollar City, Dicks 5n10 and related areas are at least operational and perhaps thriving. Johnny Morris has reinvested millions into Top of the Rock, Dogwood Canyon and more. The airport and College of the Ozarks add to the mix. Branson is accessible and, by comparison, inexpensive.
Walt, I totally agree with you. This guy made a doom and gloom video because it gets more clicks. I challenge him to do his research on the actual numbers instead of going around to empty and abandoned builds to create his doom and gloom. I GUARANTEE you, he won't do that video.
Hopefully there will be one sometime this year or early next year! Like I said in the video I had a lot more planned but had a debilitating migraine that kept me from doing much as my vision was swimming/my head was pounding. But I'm glad you enjoyed it. Keep up with what we're doing over here for part 2!
I seen my place in the video. You got a couple shots of my deck in it. Also, one Angle you're sitting at or next to fire station 3 which is right next to my place. The structure you thought might be coaster beams are from the sky coaster or the sky pipeline as my kids call it. I've lived here since 1967... Many many stories I could tell & the things I've seen come and go.
I was in Branson in the summer of 2018. The Fancy Motel was boarded up then. I had stayed there 3 times in the past, and it was clean, quiet, and inexpensive. That was built in the 1950's. In 2018 I saw numerous independent motels closed around Branson. The crowds were much less than in previous years.
Branson is evolving as it has since the first hillbilly theater opened on MO-76 about seventy years ago. The bus loads of blue hairs peaked in the 1980s and '90s. What's next is yet to be determined.
@@davideskelin5807 The days of the busloads of Seniors (with MONEY to spend in Branson) are gone. Their "kids" & gr kids aren't interested in Branson kitsch. Branson is dying out while Pigeon Forge is growing by leaps & bounds!
Covid put the newer businesses, as well as a lot of older businesses, out before they had a chance to get started. The old Taney Motel is about 25 years old and has been out for a very long time as well as some other old mom and pop motels. They were mostly put out of business because of your big chain hotels that came in.
Stayed at the Polar Bear Inn a few times. It was always clean and quiet. Then it closed and was housing for some of the construction people working in Branson. Now closed for a long time.
I noticed this as well when I went in December. I hadn't been down there for at least ten years. I think that Branson, somewhat, has met the same fate as Osage Beach when they constructed the by-pass. The Branson by-pass pretty much goes right to Silver Dollar City as you know. I saw that most of the abandoned properties are right along the main drag, west of U.S. 65. You may have also noticed that the area around Silver Doller City and Branson West has really developed. This is also due to the by-pass.
In a way, Branson sort of reminds me of Vegas in the 70s. The old performers had retired or died off, and was kind of a shell of its former self, until it found its new identity. While Branson certainly won't have the $$$ to do what Vegas did, I think there's definitely a future there to be had as an entertainment center for the region. Not sure what the answer is but it'll just have to adapt to younger generation than it had in past decades.
I have been around Branson sine the 1970s..I hated to see what has happened to Branson and table rock lake area runied by outsider's who made millions on this area then left. Also it's became a haven for the homeless people. If you have 400.00 a week you can stay in converted hotel's...That's why I didn't want it to become a huge tourist attraction... So now here's what I think the city should do...give the owner's 6 months to either open a business or tare it down..if they simply board them up then the city should tare them down and charge the owners....if they can't pay they loose their property... I remember when I was up their in the 1980s and 1990s the 90s were their boom eara.. they had many prominent Stars... Many of these Stars moved away retired or died... Some have been there quite a while like boxcar Willie... For other stars it was simply an investment to make money... Like Dixie stampede which was owned by Dolly Parton and rarely would she ever come I think she may have even sold it off to someone else... She really cares only about Dollywood more than anything... The platters were there for a long time... Ray Stevens left and of course is now dead.. Jim Stafford had a show that lasted quite a while... The promise had ended which was a long running show... But the city allowed investors to come in build structures of any types on the outskirts of town all because of profit.... Money has destroyed that part of the Ozarks... Greed is a horrible thing... People will really never see the beauty of the Ozarks like I did I thank God I lived in the eara I lived in... This allowed me to see the true beauty of the Ozarks plus it was my hometown... It's sad to see your hometown especially those born there who had great memories of coming home from the army or from abroad to a home cooked meal and enjoying the old downtown Branson area on Christmas Eve... In the beginning you could leave your car door open while visiting Branson... Now there is a lot of crime there a lot of addiction and drug addicts... you can still see remnants of places where investors were going to build but decided to wait or back out because of 9/11 then the recession now the covid...and the worst thing to ever hit Branson was timeshare... It allowed investors to become very rich... Outsiders don't care about the local area and never will...So when the economy starts booming again.... An outsiders come to your small town that is tucked away in the beautiful hillside of the mountains... And they want to start building shows and rides and theaters I would highly not recommend it and fight it with everything you have... What do I believe holds in the future for Branson I say Branson will become a ghost town completely within the next 30 years
Dixie Stampede, now called Stampede,(went Woke🙄) is owned by the Herschend family who also owns Silver Dollar City & Dollywood. They pay Dolly for the use of her name & to endorse their parks.
Many of the shut down/abandoned hotels were weekly rentals that in the past 2 years were forced down by the town for unsafe living conditions. The owners have been unable to fix and reopen.
So, I grew up in St. L and when I was a kid, the only thing in Branson, MO was Silver Dollar City, a pretty grim, "Western styled theme park" which I remember visiting with my family. So occasionally, throughout the 90s, I'd be talking to my mom on the phone, I lived on the east coast and she was still in St. L and she'd mention "Oh! You know they've really built up Branson, Missouri. They have all kinds of theaters there and Andy Williams even has a theater there and there are all these big stars performing there and now people come from all over to see the shows. It's like Las Vegas." Then, I remember the Simpson's joke about "They took Nick at Nite and made it a town." So, I would like to know: Is Branson MO Completely over? Are there no more theaters there now (2022)? Did the pandemic kill it or was it already dying? Is all the show biz completely gone?
I like that phrase “Is Branson over”, I’d say it is especially when compared to other tourist-centered towns like Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg. Although I haven’t been back since 2020 so I have no idea if it’s gotten any better in the last few years.
@@lauriesmith5008 Both parks are owned by the same parent company. I guess the first sentence should say instead--the coaster cars were MOVED to Dollywood.
All the abandoned motels are from being shut down by bad tenants. Cause they are extended stay motels. Bransons population is a little over 10,000, and 2,500 of those people are living in motels. That's because we give all of housing space to big corporations and time share. It's an extremely horrible place to live and vacationers think we live better lives than we actually do.
I remember when some of the young artists wanted to perform in Branson. They were shut out. The reasons were the crime rate would go up and drugs would be brought in. Well the drugs came anyway.
Awesome video. Had no idea that Branson had deteriorated as it has. Used to hear a lot about it and was wondering why not so much anymore. Thanks you for that video and I learned a lot. So depressing to see structures like that that were thriving and then suddenly, no more. Nice job. I can sympathize with your headaches, former migraine sufferer. But you did a great job.
The video was gonna be much longer/have a lot more locations in it, but by mid-day I genuinely could not focus due to the pounding pain and I only had that day to explore. Thanks for the kind words!!
Some of those places have been a abandoned for over 5 years. There are always big investment dreams that go south, they got a whole row of condos that look like castles that never developed from a long time ago from the same thing, tourist town stuff Wait until he finds Rockaway Beach, he'll have an existential crisis 😄 too much development and thriving means sprawl which most locals dont want, but too little tourism means unemployment which locals also don't want, so it's a balance.
Branson is "busy" on weekends & National holidays like Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th & Labor Day. Then slows down, goes on hiatus til late Oct through mid-December. The rest of the year, the "crowds" seen on weekends are nearby locals in town to do their shopping @ Tanger & The Landing, maybe dine out then go home.
as a local to branson the rollercoaster support beams as you called it is in now way a part of the former celebration city its a part of the Bigfoot theme park as the sky surfer which is kinda like a zip line that goes around the whole park in your footage you can even see a "totem pole" of sorts of bigfoot, also I would like to point out the former steampunk cafe and bar is now open and has been rebranded as Retromania which is a museum of sorts having to do with 80s stuff if you ever come back look me up I will give you a local tour
The roller coaster you're talking about has nothing to do with Celebration City or SDC. It's a private deal that never went through. Yes SDC has sold off some things. It's the decline of the number of people over the years. To many rooms.
We were in Branson in June, 2021 and it was packed with tourists. The landing was packed. I’d say people are venturing out again and making a come back. Hopefully those establishments can be revived or rebirthed in the near future.
@@Helenahandbasket1971 $100-150 a week overcrowded rooms, became infested with bugs & mice. Fires started because of overloaded electrical systems. The City finally closed many of those weekly rentals.
That's not roller-coaster parts, that was a "zip-line" type ride that existed for only a handful of years. Celebration City didn't extend that far. It's parameters are still the same as it was when it was open. And that's a gopher/groundhog, not a beaver they are IMO either the bravest or stupidest animals around here. They will eat plants growing in cracks along the side of the hwy and not even flinch. They just keep on like they didn't almost die.
It wasn't a normal zip line. It was a suspended ride. Imagine a surf board suspended from a cable. I watched it operate for a year or so then never saw it operating again. It's not "THE Branson" people 40 years old or older remember and loved. But, I guess, all things change.
hi..watching your video film missourri make me miss carthage town of missourri where im lived before in missionnary ,can you make video at carthage town missourri...?thank you so much ( like your voice on video..)
hi Nick...now i want back to Carthage town to live ..even im not join in missionnary there anymore,can you let me know apartment there rent how much.?.i want live close to Carthage Mo because i m feel im need back live there rest of my life...thanks
I grew up 7 miles east of Branson. It was a nice place till the big money came to town early in the 1990's. We sold out and got out in 94 best move I ever made. Looking at it now is like seeing your pretty high school girlfriend 30 years after she became a meth head.
Branson has been in a steady decline for years and it is doomed unless and until the Presley and Herschend families are out of local politics. The town has possibilities as an attraction but it refuses to change and cater to the changing tastes of the current generations of travelers.
Wow-looks like the motels were cheaply built. Anyway-who goes to Branson anymore? The people in their 70s (in the 1980s) are all gone now, so what is the attraction for young people? Looks like this place is pretty much dead.
The tourist-y aspect of the town and nature stuff seem to be attracting the younger crowd, with attractions like Beyond the Lens and others turning the focus from “soul and gospel” to a more diverse audience.
SDC bought Celebration City, and closed it. They closed it to eliminate the competition. It was owned by Bob Weir (might not have spelled that right) who also owned The White House Theater.
@@rachelg9873 No SDC kept it open cause i job shared back and forth between sdc and celebration city for 2 years before SDC closed the park due to its popularity and SDC was losing guest at the main park...i personally know the owners of sdc and have worked for them
@@patrickholland6848 I had been a fan of Branson for 2 decades during their hey-days til mid 2010's. Branson used to have fabulous entertainers through the 90's early 2000's, but those entertainers retired & the young/new entertainers didn't want to perform in Branson in "smaller arenas". Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg is way more fun to visit than Branson, now.
Near silver dollar city yrs ago had another amusement park name centralry that was near end of the 76 strip that what that was also before started stay in Springfield .mo then drive to Branson tm I been going to there 20yrs the hotel motel abandoned the tree in the red roof carton there a table rock hotel even the biggest outside strip mall was close 10 yrs ago but then they hv built another one use to be a restaurant with hotel connected next door most of your cheap hotels are close to 65 hwy start 67 turn into the main strip coming from downtown tbecause of economy of slow down there close downs taness motel was a cheap was not gd for as tourists if smone invest in can bring it bk good positive
As well as other great entertainers that built theaters in Branson in the 90's. Andy's kids sold his theater piece by piece. The Osmonds tried to keep it going, but, just couldn't keep it interesting. And other theaters followed suit. Sad.
Pretty sure that the GOP has had a Missouri governor for a few years now, as well as State Representatives. 72% of Taney County residents voted Republican. Mayor Best was a Republican. Not sure about Mayor Akers.
Well, Gary, of course. EVERY problem in the United States is the democrats fault... Bwah-ha-haaa....what a doofus. Sheesh, so that's the easy answer...blame a complicated issue that has developed over a period of many years that was caused by many different factors on one group of people. Typical answer by people who want an easy answer and not actually THINK about what causes problems like this to happen, and prefer to cast blame so they can feel better about themselves thinking that they themselves are not part of the problem and someone else is.
I went to Branson Missouri for several years. 70,s and 80,s with my Grandparents. The place we stayed out on lake shore drive is no longer there. But I remember the Branson from 50 years ago. I remember the resort owner tell me and my Grandfather. Well Branson is having a big surge of tourism. But he told us you watch it soon die off and slot of the motel and theaters being built will go dark and they will soon rot. I remember the tordnoe you talked about my wife and I were there on vacation when it hit. What a mess on the strip. Somewhere I have pictures of of the big mess on highway 76. I've not Bern back to Branson in probably 7 years. But want to get back and see for myself what the years have done to my home away from home. Thank you for the great video makes me sad to all the empty buildings.
That "roller coaster" was an attraction called Skysurfer. It belongs to Extreme Racing and had nothing to do with Celebration City as it opened after the park closed. Celebration City was purchased by Silver Dollar City's parent company due to the previous owners not being able to make the money they wanted to. SDC then made CC their "nighttime" attraction. Once SDC restructured to be open later, it made CC irrelevant so they closed it. Plans were discussed to make the land an aquarium but now that Branson has one, that is no longer the solution. The coasters train was moved to Dollywood, not sold as SDC's parent company owns it as well. The first theater was RFD-TV theater and was going to house the Acrobats of Shanghai in 2019. RFD-TV ended up not holding up their end of the deal so the acrobats left and RFD-TV has been trying to sell the theater. The acrobats then moved into what is now Mickey Gilley's Grand Shanghai Theater but were going to buy it out. Part of the deal was the restaurant (the one in your video) would stay Shindigs as Gilley had left it. The acrobats company closed the restaurant and was going to transform it into an Asian restaurant, thereby breaking the sale contract. Mickey Gilley then came back in to manage the theater but has not reopened the restaurant. The old motel has been closed for almost a decade as the city no longer wants a motel there and is trying to find a buyer to put in retail. Most of the other motels were long terms that were disgusting when it came to health and safety and the city is trying to phase them out.
Acrobats of China * and celebration city was donated to a church organization to commit tax fraud. If you were really from Branson you would know that.
That structure was the Sky Coaster. It was a short lived amusement but was not part of Celebration City. It came in a few years after the demise of Celebration City closed. Most of those old motels have been closed for many years also.
I live right outside Branson and I work in Branson and it's off season right now so it would be hard to tell if it is slow because of covid, I can tell you though that it seems to me that it has been slowing down for years, I know that some places though unfortunately are closed because of the plandemic, that church though I can say is jam packed every Sunday.
That place behind the Queen Ann is full of tweekers
If its off season some of the places are simply closed for the winter. There was a tornado in 2012 that did a lot of damage. Insurances did not pay, the governor did not declare a disaster so they could not get funding to do repairs and simply had to abandoned their places because they could not afford the repairs themselves. And now with covid its been hard on everyone.
My friend and I went down after the tornado. YES, it was awful.
Its pretty bad. I'm a local, no to branson but close to. We went to Branson alot growing up. Its getting worse as rhe years go by. Lots of closed buildings. Its really sad. At one time I remember it used to take HOURS to drive down the main strip.
If you think Branson is dead, you haven't been here the last two weeks. Bumper to bumper up 76 again!! So glad there are red, yellow, blue routes to bypass it.. Lived here since 1986 and love it... Although now I live in Hollister. Check out Branson Tour Guides posts. Terry is amazing..
Also celebration city was end of strip was here there abandoned resole rename next to it was the other that had race car track and had highest roller coaster 🎢 then it mive bk to silver dollar city with other big rides though the bk roads hyw wasn't to fare from each other
We live near Branson and visit many times each year. It is much more upbeat than depicted in this post. Many venues remained open during Covid. Visitors throng the main highway. New homes, condos and apartments are under construction. The Landing, Silver Dollar City, Dicks 5n10 and related areas are at least operational and perhaps thriving. Johnny Morris has reinvested millions into Top of the Rock, Dogwood Canyon and more. The airport and College of the Ozarks add to the mix.
Branson is accessible and, by comparison, inexpensive.
Walt, I totally agree with you. This guy made a doom and gloom video because it gets more clicks. I challenge him to do his research on the actual numbers instead of going around to empty and abandoned builds to create his doom and gloom. I GUARANTEE you, he won't do that video.
I would really like to see a follow up part 2 on Branson. Thanks for the videos.
Hopefully there will be one sometime this year or early next year! Like I said in the video I had a lot more planned but had a debilitating migraine that kept me from doing much as my vision was swimming/my head was pounding. But I'm glad you enjoyed it. Keep up with what we're doing over here for part 2!
I seen my place in the video. You got a couple shots of my deck in it.
Also, one Angle you're sitting at or next to fire station 3 which is right next to my place.
The structure you thought might be coaster beams are from the sky coaster or the sky pipeline as my kids call it.
I've lived here since 1967... Many many stories I could tell & the things I've seen come and go.
I was in Branson in the summer of 2018. The Fancy Motel was boarded up then. I had stayed there 3 times in the past, and it was clean, quiet, and inexpensive. That was built in the 1950's. In 2018 I saw numerous independent motels closed around Branson. The crowds were much less than in previous years.
Branson is evolving as it has since the first hillbilly theater opened on MO-76 about seventy years ago. The bus loads of blue hairs peaked in the 1980s and '90s. What's next is yet to be determined.
I thought the same thing. Years ago, I remember senior citizens by the busload. I did not notice that when I went in December.
@@davideskelin5807 The days of the busloads of Seniors (with MONEY to spend in Branson) are gone. Their "kids" & gr kids aren't interested in Branson kitsch.
Branson is dying out while Pigeon Forge is growing by leaps & bounds!
Covid put the newer businesses, as well as a lot of older businesses, out before they had a chance to get started. The old Taney Motel is about 25 years old and has been out for a very long time as well as some other old mom and pop motels. They were mostly put out of business because of your big chain hotels that came in.
Taney motel is way older than 25 years old. I moved here in 94 and it was busy then. It's been boarded up for about 5 years now.
Is sad to see after how well the area was doing in the late 90's.
Taney motel is way older than 25 years. I stayed there in 1970, before moving to the area.
Stayed at the Polar Bear Inn a few times. It was always clean and quiet. Then it closed and was housing for some of the construction people working in Branson. Now closed for a long time.
I noticed this as well when I went in December. I hadn't been down there for at least ten years. I think that Branson, somewhat, has met the same fate as Osage Beach when they constructed the by-pass. The Branson by-pass pretty much goes right to Silver Dollar City as you know. I saw that most of the abandoned properties are right along the main drag, west of U.S. 65. You may have also noticed that the area around Silver Doller City and Branson West has really developed. This is also due to the by-pass.
In a way, Branson sort of reminds me of Vegas in the 70s. The old performers had retired or died off, and was kind of a shell of its former self, until it found its new identity. While Branson certainly won't have the $$$ to do what Vegas did, I think there's definitely a future there to be had as an entertainment center for the region. Not sure what the answer is but it'll just have to adapt to younger generation than it had in past decades.
What did Bart Simpson say? Something like "It's Branson, Missouri. My dad says it's what Las Vegas would be if Ned Flanders was in charge."
I have been around Branson sine the 1970s..I hated to see what has happened to Branson and table rock lake area runied by outsider's who made millions on this area then left. Also it's became a haven for the homeless people. If you have 400.00 a week you can stay in converted hotel's...That's why I didn't want it to become a huge tourist attraction... So now here's what I think the city should do...give the owner's 6 months to either open a business or tare it down..if they simply board them up then the city should tare them down and charge the owners....if they can't pay they loose their property... I remember when I was up their in the 1980s and 1990s the 90s were their boom eara.. they had many prominent Stars... Many of these Stars moved away retired or died... Some have been there quite a while like boxcar Willie... For other stars it was simply an investment to make money... Like Dixie stampede which was owned by Dolly Parton and rarely would she ever come I think she may have even sold it off to someone else... She really cares only about Dollywood more than anything... The platters were there for a long time... Ray Stevens left and of course is now dead.. Jim Stafford had a show that lasted quite a while... The promise had ended which was a long running show... But the city allowed investors to come in build structures of any types on the outskirts of town all because of profit.... Money has destroyed that part of the Ozarks... Greed is a horrible thing... People will really never see the beauty of the Ozarks like I did I thank God I lived in the eara I lived in... This allowed me to see the true beauty of the Ozarks plus it was my hometown... It's sad to see your hometown especially those born there who had great memories of coming home from the army or from abroad to a home cooked meal and enjoying the old downtown Branson area on Christmas Eve... In the beginning you could leave your car door open while visiting Branson... Now there is a lot of crime there a lot of addiction and drug addicts... you can still see remnants of places where investors were going to build but decided to wait or back out because of 9/11 then the recession now the covid...and the worst thing to ever hit Branson was timeshare... It allowed investors to become very rich... Outsiders don't care about the local area and never will...So when the economy starts booming again.... An outsiders come to your small town that is tucked away in the beautiful hillside of the mountains... And they want to start building shows and rides and theaters I would highly not recommend it and fight it with everything you have... What do I believe holds in the future for Branson I say Branson will become a ghost town completely within the next 30 years
Dixie Stampede, now called Stampede,(went Woke🙄) is owned by the Herschend family who also owns Silver Dollar City & Dollywood.
They pay Dolly for the use of her name & to endorse their parks.
Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust , it will never be the same, for all were living were only given to leave the way we came.
Many of the shut down/abandoned hotels were weekly rentals that in the past 2 years were forced down by the town for unsafe living conditions. The owners have been unable to fix and reopen.
Celebration City would have worked in Branson now. Young people would have flocked to it.
The parts that you thought were old coster parts is the sky surfer on the strip next to xtreme racing.
So, I grew up in St. L and when I was a kid, the only thing in Branson, MO was Silver Dollar City, a pretty grim, "Western styled theme park" which I remember visiting with my family. So occasionally, throughout the 90s, I'd be talking to my mom on the phone, I lived on the east coast and she was still in St. L and she'd mention "Oh! You know they've really built up Branson, Missouri. They have all kinds of theaters there and Andy Williams even has a theater there and there are all these big stars performing there and now people come from all over to see the shows. It's like Las Vegas." Then, I remember the Simpson's joke about "They took Nick at Nite and made it a town." So, I would like to know: Is Branson MO Completely over? Are there no more theaters there now (2022)? Did the pandemic kill it or was it already dying? Is all the show biz completely gone?
I like that phrase “Is Branson over”, I’d say it is especially when compared to other tourist-centered towns like Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg. Although I haven’t been back since 2020 so I have no idea if it’s gotten any better in the last few years.
There are still so many abandoned motels and hotels here!!!!
Great video , I’ll be in Branson this weekend
The animal was a groundhog not a beaver or muskrat they do not live in water they live in a holes they dig.
Lol
You can tell I wasn’t paying attention lol thank you
The “abandoned roller coaster park” was Celebration City, and the coaster cars were sold to Dollywood.
I thought most of the park was sold to Silver city.
@@lauriesmith5008 Both parks are owned by the same parent company. I guess the first sentence should say instead--the coaster cars were MOVED to Dollywood.
i lived at the rowland motel 3 years ago. i liked it there.
Spent time at the tany motel, last time I was there about 2015 it had been closed awhile.
All the abandoned motels are from being shut down by bad tenants. Cause they are extended stay motels. Bransons population is a little over 10,000, and 2,500 of those people are living in motels. That's because we give all of housing space to big corporations and time share. It's an extremely horrible place to live and vacationers think we live better lives than we actually do.
I remember when some of the young artists wanted to perform in Branson. They were shut out. The reasons were the crime rate would go up and drugs would be brought in. Well the drugs came anyway.
The tornado tore up a lot of places and never was rebuilt and COVID last year closed a lot of places
I was born in Branson in 1970 and I know the Taney Motel was there before I was born.
Awesome video. Had no idea that Branson had deteriorated as it has. Used to hear a lot about it and was wondering why not so much anymore. Thanks you for that video and I learned a lot. So depressing to see structures like that that were thriving and then suddenly, no more. Nice job. I can sympathize with your headaches, former migraine sufferer. But you did a great job.
The video was gonna be much longer/have a lot more locations in it, but by mid-day I genuinely could not focus due to the pounding pain and I only had that day to explore. Thanks for the kind words!!
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Well, Although Branson Missouri may have some hard to find restaurants.
Some of those places have been a abandoned for over 5 years. There are always big investment dreams that go south, they got a whole row of condos that look like castles that never developed from a long time ago from the same thing, tourist town stuff
Wait until he finds Rockaway Beach, he'll have an existential crisis 😄 too much development and thriving means sprawl which most locals dont want, but too little tourism means unemployment which locals also don't want, so it's a balance.
Drugs have become a problem there like some many other places. Sold our dream home there a few yrs. Ago.
Lived there in 2000, 01. It seriously sucked! It's now 20 years later and I'm sure it's 20 years worse.
I frequent branaon often. Here now. It’s picking back up. Also SH area is booming
Branson is "busy" on weekends & National holidays like Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th & Labor Day. Then slows down, goes on hiatus til late Oct through mid-December. The rest of the year, the "crowds" seen on weekends are nearby locals in town to do their shopping @ Tanger & The Landing, maybe dine out then go home.
I do know that thank you called parts of a Rollercoaster it was a surf bord zip line
as a local to branson the rollercoaster support beams as you called it is in now way a part of the former celebration city its a part of the Bigfoot theme park as the sky surfer which is kinda like a zip line that goes around the whole park in your footage you can even see a "totem pole" of sorts of bigfoot, also I would like to point out the former steampunk cafe and bar is now open and has been rebranded as Retromania which is a museum of sorts having to do with 80s stuff if you ever come back look me up I will give you a local tour
BRANSON is getting back on their feet. Motels are filling up fast
The roller coaster you're talking about has nothing to do with Celebration City or SDC. It's a private deal that never went through.
Yes SDC has sold off some things. It's the decline of the number of people over the years. To many rooms.
Ah interesting, thanks so much! I was wondering what they were but I was entirely unfamiliar with the place.
Thanks for that, I live by those roller coaster parts and wondered what they were. I just moved here.
A lot of the hotels are being turned into extended stay complexes.
We were in Branson in June, 2021 and it was packed with tourists. The landing was packed. I’d say people are venturing out again and making a come back. Hopefully those establishments can be revived or rebirthed in the near future.
@@Helenahandbasket1971 $100-150 a week overcrowded rooms, became infested with bugs & mice. Fires started because of overloaded electrical systems.
The City finally closed many of those weekly rentals.
it was called skysurfer
That's not roller-coaster parts, that was a "zip-line" type ride that existed for only a handful of years. Celebration City didn't extend that far. It's parameters are still the same as it was when it was open.
And that's a gopher/groundhog, not a beaver they are IMO either the bravest or stupidest animals around here. They will eat plants growing in cracks along the side of the hwy and not even flinch. They just keep on like they didn't almost die.
I dont even think they ever really opened the zipline. If they did, I don't believe it even lasted a season
It wasn't a normal zip line. It was a suspended ride. Imagine a surf board suspended from a cable. I watched it operate for a year or so then never saw it operating again. It's not "THE Branson" people 40 years old or older remember and loved. But, I guess, all things change.
Yes its a zip line for the Bigfoot park n game attraction place
No....the STUPIDEST animal award goes to the danged armadillos!
@@scottsatterthwaite4073 lol I can't disagree 😅
The sun is out even though it's raining and you have a migraine, God bless you,
Those are not roller coaster parts. They are part of a zip line
hi..watching your video film missourri make me miss carthage town of missourri where im lived before in missionnary ,can you make video at carthage town missourri...?thank you so much ( like your voice on video..)
If I'm ever back up there, I'll be sure to make a video on it! Thanks for the suggestion!
My home town
hi Nick...now i want back to Carthage town to live ..even im not join in missionnary there anymore,can you let me know apartment there rent how much.?.i want live close to Carthage Mo because i m feel im need back live there rest of my life...thanks
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I grew up 7 miles east of Branson. It was a nice place till the big money came to town early in the 1990's. We sold out and got out in 94 best move I ever made. Looking at it now is like seeing your pretty high school girlfriend 30 years after she became a meth head.
Branson has been in a steady decline for years and it is doomed unless and until the Presley and Herschend families are out of local politics. The town has possibilities as an attraction but it refuses to change and cater to the changing tastes of the current generations of travelers.
I was there one December and it was hard to find a hotel since it was off season. It was always booming in the summers I was there.
Nice in its hayday its gone and will never be back...shame.
Wow-looks like the motels were cheaply built. Anyway-who goes to Branson anymore? The people in their 70s (in the 1980s) are all gone now, so what is the attraction for young people? Looks like this place is pretty much dead.
A lot of people, NO matter their age (young or old), still goes to Branson.
The tourist-y aspect of the town and nature stuff seem to be attracting the younger crowd, with attractions like Beyond the Lens and others turning the focus from “soul and gospel” to a more diverse audience.
That’s right……..YOU STAY HOME……it’s dead. Stay home……(I live here ). He he he ..
No money any more to be thrown around like before.
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Silver dollar city owned celebration city..
SDC bought Celebration City, and closed it. They closed it to eliminate the competition. It was owned by Bob Weir (might not have spelled that right) who also owned The White House Theater.
@@rachelg9873 No SDC kept it open cause i job shared back and forth between sdc and celebration city for 2 years before SDC closed the park due to its popularity and SDC was losing guest at the main park...i personally know the owners of sdc and have worked for them
@@mefirst4879 so they kept it open for a time, then closed it to eliminate the competition with SDC.
@@rachelg9873 yes they kept it open for a year or two and then closed it cause it was getting more people in celebration then silver dollar city
Branson has been on the decline for years.younger generations dont want to see 3rd rate acts.
Have you seen any of these acts? Or are you assuming that they are all 3rd rate?
@@patrickholland6848 I had been a fan of Branson for 2 decades during their hey-days til mid 2010's. Branson used to have fabulous entertainers through the 90's early 2000's, but those entertainers retired & the young/new entertainers didn't want to perform in Branson in "smaller arenas".
Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg is way more fun to visit than Branson, now.
Where you said might be part of a roller coaster was a water ride there
Near silver dollar city yrs ago had another amusement park name centralry that was near end of the 76 strip that what that was also before started stay in Springfield .mo then drive to Branson tm I been going to there 20yrs the hotel motel abandoned the tree in the red roof carton there a table rock hotel even the biggest outside strip mall was close 10 yrs ago but then they hv built another one use to be a restaurant with hotel connected next door most of your cheap hotels are close to 65 hwy start 67 turn into the main strip coming from downtown tbecause of economy of slow down there close downs taness motel was a cheap was not gd for as tourists if smone invest in can bring it bk good positive
Can I get a place to by
Do some research, visit COC or Edev. This could have been interesting.
I'll be happy to include those in part two when I revisit, what's the COC and Edev?
@@noetic-video COC = Chamber of Commerce, Edev = Economic Development Commission/Board/Department.
Do some research, it’s free do it, overused phrase
Branson’s packed.
Celebration city closed for good maybe 2006-8
Behold the effects of the lockdown and face diapers. Wait til $5/gal gasoline hits.
April 2022, It's here!!!!
@@raallen1468 April fools lol!
@@raallen1468 wait I’m late lol
Its very simple; Andy Williams died....
As well as other great entertainers that built theaters in Branson in the 90's.
Andy's kids sold his theater piece by piece. The Osmonds tried to keep it going, but, just couldn't keep it interesting. And other theaters followed suit. Sad.
Thank the democRATS!
Pretty sure that the GOP has had a Missouri governor for a few years now, as well as State Representatives. 72% of Taney County residents voted Republican. Mayor Best was a Republican. Not sure about Mayor Akers.
Well, Gary, of course. EVERY problem in the United States is the democrats fault... Bwah-ha-haaa....what a doofus. Sheesh, so that's the easy answer...blame a complicated issue that has developed over a period of many years that was caused by many different factors on one group of people. Typical answer by people who want an easy answer and not actually THINK about what causes problems like this to happen, and prefer to cast blame so they can feel better about themselves thinking that they themselves are not part of the problem and someone else is.
WTF???? How did they do that? Is that your go to answer these days? 😂😂😂
Democrats are lying again and a disgrace. Bozo Biden