Abandoned Mini Golf Boneyard
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
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This was awesome!
Safe travels!
Kinda sad that they are all left to rot but it's cool you can explore it all and show us!!
Thanks again, Great video!
A nice blast from the past! Thanks Jacob.
Played at Professor Hacketts Minature Golf Course on our honeymoon, 2001.
Thank you for finding and sharing this.
Classic bagger reminds me of the old Dino Park videos
Great video, thank you for posting these treasures. My wife and I have played EVERY mini golf in Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Sevierville, over the last 25 years. She had a full collection of score cards and “donated” balls 😎 from each course. The shark, octopus and at least two dinosaurs there, came from recently closed “Adventure Golf”, one of the oldest in Pigeon Forge (1958). Others there came from a long ago closed “Jolly Golf” in Gatlinburg. They were built by the same legendary designer James Sidwell. At one time, there was “Bunny Golf”, which had live bunnies roaming the course, providing “natural obstacles”. It didn’t last long, for obvious reasons. There was a tiny course called “Haunted Golf”, with crude, hand painted tombstones, ghosts etc at the holes. It looked like a home built course, made by 6 year olds. But, we played it too, to be all- inclusive.
Great video. I guess they use surplus planes, as well.
Great video
Keep up the great work Jacob
This ones in the golf bag.
I remember walking through a fake cave to enter the place, and a bigfoot, and the shoe and a huge dinosaur you could see from the street. But what happened to the ufo?!? It was a 360 movie of flying over the Smokeys, pretty darn cool for the 70s!
That was very early Magic World.
I am from TN and yes in Pigeon Forge a lot of what you see in the video was once a mini golf and it’s sad but the mini golf course was an amazing place
Awesome. I've been curious about the contents of this lot since you (or was it Adam) gave us a peek over the fence.
It's from an old golf course that was bulldozed in 2005. It was called Adventure Golf, and it was located near the Island in Pigieon Forge between traffic lights 4 and 5.
Wow! That’s the coolest place! Thanks Jacob!
The secret boneyard!! That was fun dude
WOO! Pigeon Forge is the place! I remember seeing that big Octopus at a golf place it's kind of crazy how they got rid of it.
the giant shark and octopus was part of mini golf we went to Gatlinburg and pidgeon forge each year as a kid
really cool to see all that old stuff! I remember a lot of that from my youth.
Great video!
Amphorae, planes, dinosaurs, and what nots!!
Sorry to see those things disintegrating but maybe the owners could find new homes for some items with preservationists or museums, the aircraft especially.
Tim Hollis says these statues came from Adventure Golf, Jolly Golf & Magic World. If you haven't gotten Tim's book on vintage mini golf courses (MiniBook of MiniGolf), it's loaded with great photos from the South. $10 used on Amazon.
Hey Debra! I need to pick up that book
Another great video Mr. Carpetbagger !!
The yellow plane was actually a prop from the volcanoe mini golf that was there until last year. The airplane you think is genuine really is. There was a museum a few years back that was nothing but military planes next to the Hollywood wax museum. They were unable to move every plane out in time and some of the planes are laying around the area like the one you found.
Awesome fiberglass sculpture boneyard! Thanks for the exclusive tour. A great hookup indeed👍
NICE!
It amazes me that you have these places in USA. Here they would be destroyed as soon as the use was over.
Metal would be recycled etc etc.
Excuse me however l do not live in the UK or Europe so your point is incorrect!!
Urbex NY Here in Germany, I have never seen a place like this. So tell me, exactly where something similar can be found?!
StimpyThe1 as l said l do not live in EUROPE, USA or UK so l can't answer that.....
Diwondermum: So, may I inquire as to where this "place of efficiency, non-pollutancy and order" actually is? Inquiring minds are curious!!
I want the brontosaurus in my yard!
I miss this mini golf! I'd love to know where this is. I'm in Pigeon forge once or twice a year. I'd love to see this
"Dinosaur Golf" was in Gatlinburg until around 2002 when it was cleared off and replaced by Rioley's Davey Crockett Mini Golf. Dinosaurs are from there.
I wish they would have sold some of these attractions . I would like to have had the woman who lived in the shoe house . My husband and I could have fixed it back up for our grandchildren or even one of those air planes . My husband and I built a huge swing set with a play house attached to it back when our kids were growing up . My husband just built our grandchildren a hang glider , except they sit in it instead of hanging by their hands . He's so good at that kind of stuff . Our grandchildren have the best time playing on that . Thanks for sharing this video Carpetbagger !!
That yellow airplane was, at one time, a real Beech B18 twin engine. They were some really nice aircraft. The army one at the first was real, as was the biplane with the exposed radial engine. Right after the tongue hanging out on the sloth was a helicopter.
Why were these things deposited here and not disposed of? Was it less expensive to just leave them on this property? Crazy.
Hey Jacob, I spoke to some of the Sidwell management a couple of days ago regarding their restoration process. They said "The
latest we just restored and added is a cobra snake located on top of the Pyramid at Lost Treasure in Pigeon Forge. It was originally built and used at Jolly Golf in Gatlinburg
back in the 1960's."
+Historic Routes and Whereabouts Documentary Series I'll need to go check that out. I've been wanting to do some videos on the mini golf courses in pigeon forge
The Carpetbagger Keep me posted.
Hope u have a blessed day!!!
Hi Amy! :)
If I'm not mistaken, the dinosaurs came from Jurassic golf...i could be completely wrong, but I do believe there was a dinosaur themed mini golf course in the past.
There was a very short lived dino golf in pigeon forge, I was there when they were installing the big pteranodon. These all came from Adventure Golf and the other mini golf that used to be in Gatlinburg. I don't think any are from Magic World..but they had a LOT of them.
Most dinosaurs in there were from MagicWorld....
There used to be a Dinosaur Walk Museum in Pigeon forge, that closed a few years ago. I wonder if some of those dinosaurs were part of that?
Those dinosaurs were made of rubber or something
Those were modern dinos. Those in Jacob's video are from the 1960s/1970s.
Those dinos were more accurate, produced by CM Studios/Charlie McGrady. I think they actually had those on loan from him and they went back when the place closed.
Awesome video Jacob... nice seeing you again! :)
I'm pretty sure the giant sloths and some of the dinosaurs and snakes came from the old mini golf in Gatlinburg as you come into town from Pigeon Forge on the left where there is (I think) a Ripley's minigolf (next to a Fairfield Inn?). Over the years, it was called many things: Goofy Golf, Gooney Golf, Jurrassic Golf, etc. It was originally part of a chain with locations in Chattanooga, Gatlinburg, Panama City Beach, and Myrtle Beach. I think this is correct - I am recovering from hip replacement surgery and enjoying the painkillers.
I think your correct.
Great video Jacob! Some truly great roadside paleontology going on here.
You're right...those dinosaurs are identical to some of the dinosaurs from Dinosaur Land in Virginia. Even the big octopus looks as if it is the same mold. Now I need to do some digging to learn more about who made those Dinosaur Land sculptures and where there might be more of the same lurking about, where they originally were, and where they've been hiding.
+DeinonychusA it has to be the same designer
Sidwell made the Dinosaur Land dinos.
Its been YEARS since ive been down there but i remember those dinosaurs. They were from a mini golf course called Dinosaur Golf i believe, it was just down from Professor Hackers. Its been at least 15 years and when i was there the course was already starting to fall apart and all games were buy one get one so two could play for the price of one. The Mantis was also at that course on one of the holes. Oh and the shoe was from another mini golf course that was themed off of children's books. It was somewhere on the main drag, i forget where but that was the one hole that i always remember being able to see from the road, that and one with the three little pigs.
Magic World had a section that was all dinosaur models. The mini train went through that area, and through a cave where I'm pretty sure there was a caveman and woman. However, it seems like I can remember a dinosaur mini golf on the strip as well, so I can't say for sure where those dinos in the video came from. Also, I'm wanting to think those giant bottles are from the Arabia section of Magic World where the magic Carpet ride was.
+Bubby Green thanks for all the good info
Special access to a boneyard... very nice. Keep up the great work Jacob!
There used to be a great bumper boat place on the strip near Dollywood Lane in the 80s and 90s. I wonder if those are from there. You didn't see any elephants did you? There were a couple there that sprayed water. I got stuck under one while I spun around in my bumper boat as a kid!
Thanks for all you share. This video brought back some fun memories. Plus we always loved Magic World. You always find the best stuff. Keep up the good work.
Cool :)
Like the golf vidow it was cool..Espelley the shark: - )
Some of that stuff probly 50 years old
This video kinda reminds me of that part in the original Power Rangers movie where the rangers where walking through the dinosaur graveyard.
what are they made of
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Hi Jacob, that was a really enjoyable & interesting video, thank you. x
ENJOY YOUR DAY JACOB HOPE YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY, THANK YOU 🙏 FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!!!!!
10,000 years from now: "It would appear that these people of the mountains (homo dollywoodensis - based on writings at other sites) built and then sacrificed effigies of ancient reptiles and then stacked the remains in a common burial ground. They also appeared to worship ancient flying machines, which they arranged in a pattern that might have been in relation to the solstices. Lastly, they built pyramid like structures out of vulcanized rubber rings (which you can see here is toppled over and likely served as the center of their religious gatherings.). These primitive people disappeared from the region after nearly a century, likely dying out due to their reliance on a diet of caramelized sugar, frozen dairy concoctions and distilled alcohol (which they believed helped them see spirits). Now, we cannot stay long at this site due to the over-contamination of a substance called fiber glass. Let's move along."
They should recycle them or break them down
I wonder why they don't try to sell any of these things. I would buy a dino or two
+Angelina Uy me too
Sounds like American pickers might be interested in that !!!
Like
Anything for sale?? I've tried to get in touch a couple times
It always amazes me that people interested in "having" (notice I did not say "hoarding" ) these curious creations of fiberglas and metal never find them worthy of actually taking the time & money to store them correctly, so that they might be refurbished while IN storage, so they could either be reused in a new minigolf park or simply kept in a restored/refurbished condition to be resold/reused. It seems such a waste of energy and land to just chuck 'em on the ground to slowly erode and be strewn haphazardly to be forgotten!
Wouldn't it be so much better to catalog each piece (vs. Many pieces of one piece!)complete with it's own history of who created it, when, where it was located & as many details as possible to identify it? It might actually be/become worth something more than..."scattered around junk".
yep privet collection of junk, yessh i guess it must mean a lot to have all tha broken fibire glass there as its just junk too far gone to save
sirmugman the tires can be cut up and used for gardens. Expensive to purchase and hard to find this year. It lasts very well. And does not attract roaches like wood products do.
Have not looked into fiberglass usage. But, i've veen on islands where people discard appliances, cars, mattresses, etc. As our populations grow more and more items are tossed on roadsides cause dump sites charge $ to dump.,6