Wallie, you’re getting better and better. Excellent video, starting with the vintage footage plus TV excerpt and going on with your respectful detailed exploration. Ganz großartig! 😍 Have a great weekend 🥂🍾
Bret Michael's from the band "Poison" worked there as a kid in the summer. He lived in Butler, PA but would spend summers at his Aunt's house in Ligonier to see his cousins.
@@WallieB26 Unfortunately, I have some bad news to tell you. The township has rejected a plan to reopen the pool. So that means no more swimming pool. But they're not giving up on the site. There are bigger plans coming there, we just don't know what it will be yet. And I wouldn't call this place abandoned, the township is taking care of the site.
This is incredible! This is my kind of Urbex. It's places like this where the memories live. You can almost hear the sounds of kids laughing and playing having a good time. There's a certain sadness and peaceful feeling you get almost like there's a connection even though personally I've never been here. I'm sure many of the locals have fond memories here.
I spent many summers as a kid here when I'd come from Connecticut to stay with family nearby. I had no idea it closed! Sad, but cool to see that you were able to get in there. That one last scene at 24:34 of the entire area flooded pretty much told the whole story re: the demise of this place. Great vid!
Aww. That is such a shame it is closed. I only went there once, but I can remember driving by several times on our way to and from laurel caverns. It was ALWAYS empty looking, even on hot summer days. I love that area PA, it is beautiful, especially in fall. Great video!
Crossroads Diner. Ligoneer Beech. Whalom Park. It makes me want to cry to see all the stuff in Rick Seback's documentaries go out of business. Seeing the proximity to the creek though, I'm honestly surprised this place lasted as long as it did knowing what happened to the YMCA in Upper Saint Clair.
Well hon I really enjoyed your tour of this beach how fun it reminded me of Saratoga that we had here in Utah in the 60s and 70s that eventually went into disrepair when the lake flooded but it had a really cool wicked slide like the one that was in this photo that would never go today that’s for sure but talk about how fun back in the day that was a really steep slide too but I bet the kids absolutely loved it in the day and talk about that ring of all those cool cars going around wow that was wild you did a Really Great job filming this...🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞❤️
Such memories for sure the locals. I'm glad you were able to document this place in the event it gets redeveloped or opens back up. That sign by the road is so neat.
Like many, good memories. Going there a very special treat in the 50's. I haven't read all the comments but one feature was a big flat wheel sitting at an angle to the water, flat on top and pipe work underneath to hang onto as it circled in and out of the water. Memories thanks for vid! NM Fran
Remember hearing about serious flood damage shutting it down.So sad it never cleaned up and reopened.Had 3 places just like it in NE.Ohio that also closed but for liability insurance reason being too high due to lawsuits.💸💼 Holiday Sands in Ravenna,Lake Plata in Macedonia and Fell Lake in Sagamore Hills where I grew up.All gone,loved spending the day at these private big pool parks close to home Fell Lake I could walk to and Lake Plata was a bike ride away.So when we were old enough could go without parental supervision all day back in the days when you and all the other kids could during summer break.🏖Grateful I grew up in 60s Thru 70s carefree freedom.🤗
Hey brother, just seen your video. Thanks for doing that and bringing back a lot of old memories. I lived in Ligonier as a boy growing up and we would frequent this pool 2 to 3 times a week with my family. A friend of mine was actually an owner of it and his parents would allow us to come there and swim for free :-) I would say the main thing that destroyed Ligonier Beach is the extreme climatic weather that they experience regularly. The pool can actually only be open for around 4 months a year leaving income to be difficult. Not to mention the river right behind it continually flooding. Perhaps a redesign / reconstruction could bring back this historical monument! I can't believe it's sold for only $230,000. That's the average Market house price where I live in North Carolina now period for a commercial property such as this I would expect millions. Anyway it's great video and thanks for sharing
Very well documented bud. Really loved seeing the old photos when it was open with all the classic cars. You definitely gotta come back and do an update video if it reopens for business.
Wallie .. i like all ur vids very much .. but this one probably the most, since its a place I grew up going to. I'm from CT but used to spend summers with family out in Ligonier and we spent hours every single day there for years. I had no idea it even closed until I saw your vid. You did an outstanding job on this one, including the history as well as your own footage. Depressing as hell to see the condition it's in now, though. I had no idea all that damage happened. Thanks for doing this one ... very cool, though sad, to see. I want you to come up to New England some time and do some exploring up here.
5:43 i saw that diving board ramp and all i could think is how the sandpaper like material felt on my feet before i jumped off into the chilly water bc it’s pa , it never got warm enough but we still swam . great memories
I have been past this place many times over the years , just never had the chance to stop in, always wondered what it looked like close up , now I do...thanks for posting this video
What a great video, so sad for the reasons for this place to close. No doubt that this place was awesome back in its day. Thank you Wallie for sharing this video with us, love the channel. Looking forward to seeing more videos. Stay awesome
Wow such a history I hope they do revive it and start getting it to the point of that place be a hot place to go to during those hot days and have parties and maybe a small weddings..
My mother and my aunt used to go their all the time in the summer with their friends when they were teenagers in fact they knew the original owners the Gallows it used to be called Nick Gallows place ps if they would see those pictures they would be Crying now hope the city of Ligongeer treats it better because we need to get back to prepandempic life soon please
At least it is going to be opened someday. I found out it was bought and they are going to be fixing it up and soon people will be able to keep their traditions alive. I was so happy to hear all this. But the pool will not be opened this summer but maybe next summer? But they are working on things and you will be able to go there just no swimming. I am hoping that next year the pool will be open and that I can come and visit the biggest pool I have ever seen. But I will keep checking to see how things are going they have already removed 10 dead trees, and I am sure there is going to be more stuff done to it this summer. If you live around there plz keep me up to date on if the pool is opened yet or not. Great video thanks it got me wanting to go.
Omg this is so sad my friends grandfather owned ligonier beach. Me and him would go all the time. And swim we loved it. Lived in the town right down the road from there. In ligonier.
All the door hardware looks very new . So someone spent a few bucks recently and installed it . Was that asphalt used to patch up the middle portion of the pool ? That pool would be a HUGE job to fix with cracks in the concrete and pool mechanisms would have to be renewed . Did they charge for parking or any other type of admission fee? By the looks of it, all the buildings would have to be renovated and some sort of flood protection possibly considered . A big job indeed . You've got to be careful walking up into these rickety old buildings !
Aw shit, I had no idea the place been shut down since 2017 on account of floods and arson. I used to go there once back in... I want to say somewhere between the late 2000s and 2010, can't remember exactly when I went, but when my step pap took me, my younger brother and cousin there as part of our 'mystery trips' where our step pap would take us someplace as a surprise. I remember then the place was still pretty booming with a lot of people then in summer. I actually live 10-20 miles east of Ligonier near Jennerstown so I would pass this place often if we were heading out toward Pittsburgh along Rt. 30. Sucks to see the place has since closed 2017. Would've probably still been in good business had it not been for arson and the two floods that hit the place. At least Idlewild Park, just five minutes from Ligonier Beach, is still a good destination to go too and enjoy the Soak Zone they have there. Funny how this place managed to be in business while Idlewild was nearby and would be as busy during the summer season.
I remember back in 2017 swimming with a friend of my music and people all around me it crazy it took couple of years for all of that to change and the thing in the middle of the pool is indeed was a fountain because I remember getting hit the the face with water from it
It will be interesting when and if it reopens as I have heard of a state ordinance that stated that slant-side pools like this and the Dormont pool had to remain in year-to-year operation to be "grandfathered" or else they would no-longer be up to code.
Interesting. Sad. My mom and her cousins spent much time in the 1940s - 1950s. We just took a drive there to the Pie Shoppe and it was sad seeing the deteriorated pool ..
When you opened the door to that restroom you could see the water level make from the flood on the sink, & that is elevated good from the top of creek. Looked like the flood may have close to 20 feet above flood stage for creek. Destroyed everything
It must have been awfully tempting to take some mementos from there. That's an old Yuengling sign, from the days before they created their popular Lager. Some writing in French on the Molson sign. I doubt you would see that today. There was a public pool outside of Johnstown called Liberty. It's been closed a long time. When my mom was a kid, long ago, Charles Bronson was a lifeguard there.
Wow ive never seen anything like that. I would say it would be expensive to maintain. I know in ohio the health department is very picky about equipment,water quality and everything else with them. I could see that filling with mud water would destroy it. Got nostalgic sake hopefully it will reopen. Keep us updated if you can wallie i wouldnt mind driving up and hopping in if it gets another chance in life. Also another awesome video Wallie! You my favorite!
It looks like the township might be doing cleanup work with the bulldozer there. Hard to tell but it's a good guess that they really want to bring this place back to life.
It got flooded out.. out was really bad and it wasn't just just there it was many houses down the road and it was very deep reaching up to the highway... it is still owned.. and talks of being reopened.. the pool where out is painted black someone came out and was making a movie there and they had titanic lifeboats hauled In.. there was some articles posted on local news.. you may be able to Google the articles.. I live close to this.. ;-)
Sadly it Looks like the concrete in the pool in in really bad condition and pretty muck beyond repair. My guess that maybe another reason owners decided it wasn't worth repairing after the flood.
Wallie, you’re getting better and better. Excellent video, starting with the vintage footage plus TV excerpt and going on with your respectful detailed exploration. Ganz großartig! 😍 Have a great weekend 🥂🍾
Really great episode, my family grew up not far from there , brings back so many memories, thanks so much Wallie , I enjoyed that so much .
Bret Michael's from the band "Poison" worked there as a kid in the summer. He lived in Butler, PA but would spend summers at his Aunt's house in Ligonier to see his cousins.
I love that Coca-Cola sign/menu board being a Coca-Cola collector as a Coca-Cola drinker with meals. Excellent video Wallie, thank you for sharing!
They're getting the place fixed up. Hopefully this beautiful pool will open again soon.
I sure hope so. I'd love to spend an afternoon there!
@@WallieB26 Unfortunately, I have some bad news to tell you. The township has rejected a plan to reopen the pool. So that means no more swimming pool. But they're not giving up on the site. There are bigger plans coming there, we just don't know what it will be yet. And I wouldn't call this place abandoned, the township is taking care of the site.
This is incredible! This is my kind of Urbex. It's places like this where the memories live. You can almost hear the sounds of kids laughing and playing having a good time. There's a certain sadness and peaceful feeling you get almost like there's a connection even though personally I've never been here. I'm sure many of the locals have fond memories here.
Awesome video
I spent many summers as a kid here when I'd come from Connecticut to stay with family nearby. I had no idea it closed! Sad, but cool to see that you were able to get in there. That one last scene at 24:34 of the entire area flooded pretty much told the whole story re: the demise of this place. Great vid!
Aww. That is such a shame it is closed. I only went there once, but I can remember driving by several times on our way to and from laurel caverns. It was ALWAYS empty looking, even on hot summer days. I love that area PA, it is beautiful, especially in fall. Great video!
Crossroads Diner. Ligoneer Beech. Whalom Park. It makes me want to cry to see all the stuff in Rick Seback's documentaries go out of business. Seeing the proximity to the creek though, I'm honestly surprised this place lasted as long as it did knowing what happened to the YMCA in Upper Saint Clair.
Another cool find from better days in this country. I love watching your videos. And go Penguins.
Well hon I really enjoyed your tour of this beach how fun it reminded me of Saratoga that we had here in Utah in the 60s and 70s that eventually went into disrepair when the lake flooded but it had a really cool wicked slide like the one that was in this photo that would never go today that’s for sure but talk about how fun back in the day that was a really steep slide too but I bet the kids absolutely loved it in the day and talk about that ring of all those cool cars going around wow that was wild you did a Really Great job filming this...🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞❤️
Such memories for sure the locals. I'm glad you were able to document this place in the event it gets redeveloped or opens back up. That sign by the road is so neat.
Like many, good memories. Going there a very special treat in the 50's. I haven't read all the comments but one feature was a big flat wheel sitting at an angle to the water, flat on top and pipe work underneath to hang onto as it circled in and out of the water. Memories thanks for vid! NM Fran
Remember hearing about serious flood damage shutting it down.So sad it never cleaned up and reopened.Had 3 places just like it in NE.Ohio that also closed but for liability insurance reason being too high due to lawsuits.💸💼 Holiday Sands in Ravenna,Lake Plata in Macedonia and Fell Lake in Sagamore Hills where I grew up.All gone,loved spending the day at these private big pool parks close to home Fell Lake I could walk to and Lake Plata was a bike ride away.So when we were old enough could go without parental supervision all day back in the days when you and all the other kids could during summer break.🏖Grateful I grew up in 60s Thru 70s carefree freedom.🤗
Hey brother, just seen your video. Thanks for doing that and bringing back a lot of old memories. I lived in Ligonier as a boy growing up and we would frequent this pool 2 to 3 times a week with my family. A friend of mine was actually an owner of it and his parents would allow us to come there and swim for free :-) I would say the main thing that destroyed Ligonier Beach is the extreme climatic weather that they experience regularly. The pool can actually only be open for around 4 months a year leaving income to be difficult. Not to mention the river right behind it continually flooding. Perhaps a redesign / reconstruction could bring back this historical monument! I can't believe it's sold for only $230,000. That's the average Market house price where I live in North Carolina now period for a commercial property such as this I would expect millions. Anyway it's great video and thanks for sharing
Looks like it was amazing place love seeing the old photos I hope it reopens that would be awesome have a wonderful weekend 😊
Great video wallie
i used to go there a lot for my bdays and fourth of july . it was good time it’s crazy to see that explorers are going here now
That was REALLY cool video! Thanks for sharing!
Very well documented bud. Really loved seeing the old photos when it was open with all the classic cars. You definitely gotta come back and do an update video if it reopens for business.
Wallie .. i like all ur vids very much .. but this one probably the most, since its a place I grew up going to. I'm from CT but used to spend summers with family out in Ligonier and we spent hours every single day there for years. I had no idea it even closed until I saw your vid. You did an outstanding job on this one, including the history as well as your own footage. Depressing as hell to see the condition it's in now, though. I had no idea all that damage happened. Thanks for doing this one ... very cool, though sad, to see. I want you to come up to New England some time and do some exploring up here.
That place looks awesome
I went to ligonier beach all the time when i was 5 and to see it shut down like this is absolutely devastating
Thanks for making this video. Really awesome footage and history. Really enjoyed it.
What really great episode and that red board was a backboard
5:43 i saw that diving board ramp and all i could think is how the sandpaper like material felt on my feet before i jumped off into the chilly water bc it’s pa , it never got warm enough but we still swam . great memories
Be safe and be awesome dude
Very cool.
I have been past this place many times over the years , just never had the chance to stop in, always wondered what it looked like close up , now I do...thanks for posting this video
What a great video, so sad for the reasons for this place to close. No doubt that this place was awesome back in its day. Thank you Wallie for sharing this video with us, love the channel. Looking forward to seeing more videos. Stay awesome
Excellent video
Wow such a history I hope they do revive it and start getting it to the point of that place be a hot place to go to during those hot days and have parties and maybe a small weddings..
Interesting how nature reclaims everything. This place looks nice one time.
Love this. Thanks Wallie! If/when it opens, please show it!
Great video thanks for sharing , that place was huge what a shame so sad
My mother and my aunt used to go their all the time in the summer with their friends when they were teenagers in fact they knew the original owners the Gallows it used to be called Nick Gallows place ps if they would see those pictures they would be Crying now hope the city of Ligongeer treats it better because we need to get back to prepandempic life soon please
your right! we had a cottage right down the crick on rte 30 between town & pool. late 40's,50's ,60's. great place & town.
9:13 I would not have been able to resist using the extra letters in the box to leave a message on the board.
I live a little less than 40 miles from Ligonier Beach, but never got a chance to visit.
Just drove by there Thursday.
Went there and Blue Dell in Irwin Pa.. same type pool.. Yes I'm old lol... and my parents took us these places
At least it is going to be opened someday. I found out it was bought and they are going to be fixing it up and soon people will be able to keep their traditions alive. I was so happy to hear all this. But the pool will not be opened this summer but maybe next summer? But they are working on things and you will be able to go there just no swimming. I am hoping that next year the pool will be open and that I can come and visit the biggest pool I have ever seen. But I will keep checking to see how things are going they have already removed 10 dead trees, and I am sure there is going to be more stuff done to it this summer. If you live around there plz keep me up to date on if the pool is opened yet or not. Great video thanks it got me wanting to go.
Wow, that is really sad
Omg this is so sad my friends grandfather owned ligonier beach. Me and him would go all the time. And swim we loved it. Lived in the town right down the road from there. In ligonier.
What a awesome video.
Wow. It screams 1950s. Especially the kitchen.
Full send is right my guy👌🏻 great video
I can still remember the urinal in the men’s room, the oldest ones I’ve ever seen. Used to go there in the summers up until 2016-2017.
6:37
Just wanted to come back to this video to hear this EXACT quote lol
Sad. I think I was there a few times when I was you young.
And today it was officially demolished forever.
All the door hardware looks very new . So someone spent a few bucks recently and installed it . Was that asphalt used to patch up the middle portion of the pool ? That pool would be a HUGE job to fix with cracks in the concrete and pool mechanisms would have to be renewed . Did they charge for parking or any other type of admission fee? By the looks of it, all the buildings would have to be renovated and some sort of flood protection possibly considered .
A big job indeed . You've got to be careful walking up into these rickety old buildings !
Aw shit, I had no idea the place been shut down since 2017 on account of floods and arson. I used to go there once back in... I want to say somewhere between the late 2000s and 2010, can't remember exactly when I went, but when my step pap took me, my younger brother and cousin there as part of our 'mystery trips' where our step pap would take us someplace as a surprise. I remember then the place was still pretty booming with a lot of people then in summer.
I actually live 10-20 miles east of Ligonier near Jennerstown so I would pass this place often if we were heading out toward Pittsburgh along Rt. 30.
Sucks to see the place has since closed 2017. Would've probably still been in good business had it not been for arson and the two floods that hit the place.
At least Idlewild Park, just five minutes from Ligonier Beach, is still a good destination to go too and enjoy the Soak Zone they have there. Funny how this place managed to be in business while Idlewild was nearby and would be as busy during the summer season.
Went swimming there a lot when I was a kid
we used to pass by this place going to idlewild
I remember back in 2017 swimming with a friend of my music and people all around me it crazy it took couple of years for all of that to change and the thing in the middle of the pool is indeed was a fountain because I remember getting hit the the face with water from it
It will be interesting when and if it reopens as I have heard of a state ordinance that stated that slant-side pools like this and the Dormont pool had to remain in year-to-year operation to be "grandfathered" or else they would no-longer be up to code.
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Interesting. Sad. My mom and her cousins spent much time in the 1940s - 1950s. We just took a drive there to the Pie Shoppe and it was sad seeing the deteriorated pool ..
Any news on the reopening of this place ? Or permanently closed?😢 My mom and I taking a drive up there. She remembers Ligonier Beach in it's heyday.❤
Cool video
I live 30 min away,and grew up there. This gutts me.
What a shame looked lovely back in the day
So sad! It was a fun place!
When you opened the door to that restroom you could see the water level make from the flood on the sink, & that is elevated good from the top of creek. Looked like the flood may have close to 20 feet above flood stage for creek. Destroyed everything
Nice video
u ever do the old zoo near altoona? think its private property. would be cool
It must have been awfully tempting to take some mementos from there. That's an old Yuengling sign, from the days before they created their popular Lager. Some writing in French on the Molson sign. I doubt you would see that today. There was a public pool outside of Johnstown called Liberty. It's been closed a long time. When my mom was a kid, long ago, Charles Bronson was a lifeguard there.
Wow ive never seen anything like that. I would say it would be expensive to maintain. I know in ohio the health department is very picky about equipment,water quality and everything else with them. I could see that filling with mud water would destroy it. Got nostalgic sake hopefully it will reopen. Keep us updated if you can wallie i wouldnt mind driving up and hopping in if it gets another chance in life. Also another awesome video Wallie! You my favorite!
There’s another place that just recently closed as well right in the same area, the Country INN right in Laughlintown.
It looked like it was a cool place at one time
Geez that’s a small beach compared to other
1950s my favorite decade I was born in wrong generation I love to hear doo wop music too not that today’s music
the sign was replaced years ago and Graham's Antique Mall sold the original.
Good morning willie
WOW !! 😀
It looks like the township might be doing cleanup work with the bulldozer there. Hard to tell but it's a good guess that they really want to bring this place back to life.
Well depending on how thick that mud was that dozer is great at getting it out especially since you never know what's in that flooded water and mud..
Ligonier was the hometown of Fred Rogers and I am sure that he knew about Ligonier Beach.
It got flooded out.. out was really bad and it wasn't just just there it was many houses down the road and it was very deep reaching up to the highway... it is still owned.. and talks of being reopened.. the pool where out is painted black someone came out and was making a movie there and they had titanic lifeboats hauled In.. there was some articles posted on local news.. you may be able to Google the articles.. I live close to this.. ;-)
our family had cottage right down the crick in 40's,50's,60's & went thru flooding many times also!! great memories.
and btw no parties happened in that building , all the parties happened at the bar :)
They also had a fire the wallie I do have pictures of that also I was before that flood
0:01 that how life was in the 1950s old technology was better RIP 1925-2017
"old technology was better" ok, then why are you on youtube kind sir?
@@xXDylanPlaysXx I'm just saying dude
@@DalmationProductions your just saying this on new technology aswell
@@xXDylanPlaysXx well yeah what else would I talk about
@@DalmationProductions literally anything else that actually makes sense and has logic behind it (unlike this comment currently)
Sadly it Looks like the concrete in the pool in in really bad condition and pretty muck beyond repair. My guess that maybe another reason owners decided it wasn't worth repairing after the flood.
Looks like it use to be a really nice place at one time and probably could be
Used to be a hopping place. Still could be.
Rember to press and push on the windows if thay open
Hey Wallie!
I bet that pool leaks like a sieve.
What a shame for the place
Is that dude Hulk Hogan?
Keith would really like this place
I am surprised this place classes has a beach. There no sand or a sea air. I won’t be coming to see the area because I live in the U.K.
u ever have cops question you? i was taking pics from the street of brownsville hospital and cops sat and watched/followed me.
So sad about the place
like to skateboard that pool
Is this in US
What up wallie btw I'm 3rd
5:03 If you couldn’t see that much then why not try walking through the room?
That was through a window on the door. I was looking through that from the outside. Otherwise I would have.
WallieB26 I see.
I like your research of that place. Thx a lot xoxo💋 from 🇨🇦