Teamwork Required for a Great Family Escape

The quest for the VACCINE - Escape Experience Chattanooga

A Great Family Escape requires a survival vest

“What is this?”

“Tools.  You will need them.”

*searches survival vest.  finds flash light, string with magnet and other random items*

“Mom, I don’t want to go.”

“you’ll be fine”

“please, mom”

*grabs kid by the hand and drags her into a dark, post-apocalyptic kitchen….*

This was the beginning of the excitement at Escape Experience Chattanooga, our second escape experience as a family, and unknown to us Continue reading “Teamwork Required for a Great Family Escape”

Patriotic Palace – Abandoned Amusement Park in TN

Patriotic Palace, TNAbandoned places are some of my favorite photographic subjects, and the Patriotic Palace was not a disappointment.  Through the dirt and neglect, you can usually imagine what a place used to be, but there seems to be more mystery surrounding this one, an  I have so far been unable to reconstruct it’s history.

When my family and I passed this Abandoned Amusement park on our way to Chattanooga, we made a note to stop and visit it on our way home.  The Patriotic Palace is located on Interstate 75, exit 141, a lonely and sad reminder of….what?  I’m really not sure, as I have been unable to find any specific information regarding this amusement park.

And not that I spent a crap ton of time on google or anything, but the few searches I did on this lonely little “amusement park” turned up nothing but posts by other people who stopped to take photos, just as I did, or stories of the adjacent Fireworks Superstore burning down in 2014.

If anyone knows the history of the amusement park side of this place, I would love to hear it.In the mean time, here are several photos

Patriotic Palace, TN

Patriotic Palace, TN

Patriotic Palace, TN

Ferris Wheel Close up, Patriotic Palace, TN