Hello, and welcome to the Season 3, Episode 05 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast!
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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 05: You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Play Here: Abandoned Places
S03E05: Abandoned Waterparks and Neverland Ranch.
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The heyday of bad-idea waterparks, when the kids were probably drunk and their 1980s parents decided to just roll the dice on safety, and the dark and over-the-top remnants of Neverland Ranch. (Content warning: We primarily focus on the actual structures and items inside, but do acknowledge the abuse. If that’s something you’d prefer to avoid, skip ahead to Haley’s story.)Support the show:
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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials:
Abandoned Waterparks:
- Action Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park
- “Class Action Park” Remembers the Perils of a Really Good Time: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906200363/class-action-park-remembers-the-perils-of-a-really-good-time
- What it was like growing up in Actio Park, the world’s most dangerous theme park: https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/growing-up-in-action-park-the-worlds-most-dangerous-water-park/
- 5 of the Craziest Stories About New Jersey’s Infamous Action Park: https://www.newsweek.com/5-craziest-stories-about-new-jerseys-infamous-action-park-1516411
- 8 Terrifying Action Park Deaths and Injuries: https://decider.com/2020/08/27/class-action-park-deaths-injuries/
- Abandoned Michigan: Slide-A-Way: https://99wfmk.com/slide-away-park-kalamazoo/
- Fly Over the Abandoned Slide-A-Way on D Ave – Drones Over Southwest Michigan: https://kalamazoocountry.com/fly-over-the-abandoned-slide-away-on-d-ave-drones-over-southwest-michigan/
- Facebook memories of Slide-A-Way: https://www.facebook.com/KalamazooCountry/posts/who-remembers-going-to-slide-away/1146472418808361/
- Wendell O. Burkett: https://www.winkelfuneralhome.com/wendell-o-burkett/
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A Look at the Abandoned Slide Away Near Kalamazoo:
- Class Action Park: https://www.classactionpark.com/
- Rare Vintage 90s: Slide-A-Way:
Neverland Ranch:
- LaBreece TV YouTube Video: The Story of Neverland Ranch
- Vice.com Urban Exploring of Neverland article:https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w744j/exploring-michael-jacksons-abandoned-neverland-ranch-760
- Vice.com article photos: https://www.buzznicked.com/michael-jacksons-neverland-ranch/
- One Urban Explorer’s Story of Exploring (pretty evident it’s one of the dudes from the Vice article): http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/goodbye-michael-jackson
- Other Vice Article guy photoset:https://www.flickr.com/photos/heads-up/sets/72157603762534753/
- Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverland_Ranch
- WSJ Article re: recent sale of Ranch https://www.wsj.com/articles/once-asking-100-million-michael-jacksons-neverland-ranch-sells-to-billionaire-ron-burkle-for-22-million-11608817380
Further Reading:
- Nothing to see this time!