Famous Landmark Places that are no more

[kendancy66]

Man, that's the second time today I've been called "No one"!

Reminds me of a local car dealer who started calling himself "Nobody" so when other dealers say "nobody beats our prices", he can say "That's right. I do" or something to that effect.

That reminds me of a friend who would always say to everyone "You aint Nothing".  So I would reply back to him "You are Nothing"

[kkt]

Maybe with the cost of fuel gone up, enough complaints to PennDOT will get the interchange finally done!

If fuel costs keep going up, people will drive less which will impact the Highway Trust Fund and less people will be using the Turnpike, so the opposite would happen.

Same if vehicles become more fuel-efficient.

[Scott5114]

There was a large artificial hill near I-35 and Robinson in Norman, OK that was created as the backstop to a firing range during WWII. After I-35 was built, that hill became sort of a landmark as it was one of the first things you'd see coming into the main part of Norman from Oklahoma City. It even received a name, Mount Williams. Unfortunately the land got bought out by Target, and the hill was removed. The access road for the Super Target was named Mount Williams Drive for the hill, though.

[roadman65]

The Flagship Hotel in Galveston, TX.  When I was checking googlestreetview out, I saw it on there as it was not there when I visited Galveston a few weeks ago.  I wanted to actually see the amusment park that I saw that now sits where the resort once stood.  Also, I have never seen a hotel built over the sea before and when I saw it first, I thought that I was seeing things as it was not there in person.

I learned later that it was a hotel that was built in 1965 that was severely damaged by Hurrican Ike in 08.  It was later demolished by the owner as consideration for its demolition was already contiplated months before the deadly storm hit the area.

Nonetheless, it was a landmark and most likely one of a kind as I do not think anywhere there is a hotel built out over water except maybe in the Coral Sea with the floating hotel  miles from land that I once read about.