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Shanty Bay Go-Karts

You can find the video here!!

https://youtu.be/zcoU5sy2eCA

In this post we get to see what the gas station convenience store looked like!!

This building was once home to a number of businesses. Being located along a major highway, I would have imagined it was once a very busy place.  After having talked to a few former employees, they confirmed that those businesses were indeed busy, so the question remains…why did they all close?

In last week’s episode we explored the abandoned Coffee Time Restaurant.  In today’s video we will be exploring the rest of the building, including a former McDonald’s, a Shell gas station convenience store, a party room and the go kart track and mini putt.

Looking through street imagery, I could see that the building was not very well maintained as far back as 2012 and as time went on, it just got worse and worse with holes beginning to appear in the roof.  Coffee Time was the first to go in 2009.  The McDonald’s closed in late 2015 and around the same time an “under new management” sign appeared in the gas station window. That didn’t seem to help matters since the Shell station and store would later close in 2018. Finally in 2019 the go-kart track and party room would close as well.  There was also a mini putt but that looks to have been closed for far longer.

I suspect there were a number of reasons it failed.  It is located along a divided highway with good visibility but was only easily accessible by the southbound traffic.  There is also a sizeable city located not more than 10 minutes down the road with far more options.  Last, the owners tried to lease the empty spaces where the coffee shop and restaurant used to be but were unsuccessful.  With those two food options gone, the location was no longer a one stop shop.

Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (via always-returning)