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Panama City Beach Sky Ride - ABANDONED Florida Attraction

Date: October 23, 2012 Duration: 5m 5s
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Transcript

0:25 welcome everyone I'm in Panama City
0:26 Beach this evening the Sun is going down
0:28 and I'm standing here in front of some
0:30 wooded area what's Behind These Woods
0:32 you might ask well I'm going to show you
0:35 come with me as we check out the old
0:37 Panama City Beach Sky Ride join me shall
0:41 you Panama City Beach Sky Ride it's the
0:46 Panama City Beach Sky Ride Panama City
0:50 Beach is just a shell of its former self
0:54 back in the Heyday when MTV would be out
0:55 here on spring break tourists would be
0:58 flocking to this neck of the woods just
1:00 make sure you don't park here because
1:01 this whole area is so bustling the area
1:04 I'm in is pretty much decayed a lot of
1:07 big empty parking lots a lot of
1:09 abandoned
1:17 buildings right over here is the old Sky
1:17 Ride Sky Ride would take you up past
1:19 these trees almost like Disney World
1:22 style remember how Disney World used to
1:24 have the ride that took you across the
1:25 park in Magic Kingdom well that's
1:27 basically what this was big humongous a
1:30 slab of concrete still left here little
1:33 crazy Remnant some remnants down here of
1:35 course that's the big major Remnant pan
1:39 City Beach Sky
1:41 Ride duck underneath
1:51 here check that
1:51 out obviously the road you either drove
1:55 in or you walked in not really sure what
1:57 this would have been obviously it's some
1:58 wood almost looks like a dock or
2:01 something that's kind of strange I don't
2:04 know what a dock would have to do with
2:07 that down this pathway here we have a
2:23 that it's a lot of birds and other
2:23 creatures of the wild out here making
2:25 noise
2:36 something there in the woods there right
2:36 there there's the
2:38 legs some sort of legs some kind of
2:43 structure here's the fence to get in of
2:45 course we got to go through all the
2:47 Shrubbery check that out still there you
2:50 have to open that fence up there or
2:52 climb over that
3:02 something moving in the woods there
3:02 check out that piece of metal rope it's
3:04 actually rope but it's made of
3:07 metal hear that it's metal it's the
3:11 Panama City Beach
3:14 Sky it's pretty wild how this is just
3:16 left to rot and rust here in the middle
3:18 of the
3:19 woods pretty
3:27 awesome stuff in these trees check that
3:27 out that one's actually still intact
3:29 it's one of the baskets you would have
3:30 sat right inside there my finger would
3:33 have been the Torso popping up out of
3:34 the
3:35 top
3:41 awesomeness you would have gone straight
3:41 that way after you're up on this balcony
3:44 platform right towards the beachway
3:47 Panama City Beach Sky
3:50 Ride check this out is actually one of
3:52 the baskets that used to take you over
3:54 by the
3:57 beach it's pretty cool
4:01 all sort of debris hanging down can't be
4:03 safe look at this thing just dangling
4:05 there so just imagine back in the day
4:08 people would have rode off straight that
4:10 way towards the
4:17 sunset some fencing there left over no
4:17 telling how many years that's been
4:18 sitting there
4:27 rotting there you go a little history
4:27 here in Panama City Beach not not sure
4:29 if you knew this was still here but now
4:31 you do thanks for watching everyone
4:33 short and sweet this one's short and
4:37 sweet City Beach Sky Ride it's the
4:40 Panama City Beach Sky Ride I don't know
4:45 what's down here look at this a shopping
4:48 cart hopefully there's no homeless guy
4:50 down there it's a homeless guy shopping
4:54 cart hopefully he's not underneath there
4:58 I know trolls hide underneath these
4:59 things but I don't know about homeless
5:00 dudes homeless trolls maybe subscribe