Comments on: Wonder Spot to Close https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/ Award-winning & New York Times-bestselling author and game designer Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:18:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Patty https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-44052 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:18:30 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-44052 Losing the Wonder Spot is just one more tragedy for Wisconsin Dells. The charm and beauty is being replaced with mega waterparks for the sake of money. It’s so heartbreaking. Why are the people of the Wisconsin Dells allowing this to happen?

]]> By: Patty https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-49180 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:18:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-49180 Losing the Wonder Spot is just one more tragedy for Wisconsin Dells. The charm and beauty is being replaced with mega waterparks for the sake of money. It’s so heartbreaking. Why are the people of the Wisconsin Dells allowing this to happen?

]]> By: P. Powers https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-9033 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:54:01 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-9033 To all that have been there, tell and retell your experience to everyone. Why, you ask? Because ‘Real America’ is becoming a folk tale one day, just like the stories your grandma and grandpa tell. My kids now, look at me like, “yeah right”. I’m only 36 years old. My question (one of), a road? Where and who has to get to point A to point B, that is soooo important that they can’t make a turn here or there. Is nothing sacride anymore? I truely fear the future of America. Man made ‘wonders of the world’ are nice to look at, but a natural ‘wonder of the world’…………Is the almighty dollar more important? (By the way, what can you buy for a dollar now days?)

]]> By: P. Powers https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-49179 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:54:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-49179 To all that have been there, tell and retell your experience to everyone. Why, you ask? Because ‘Real America’ is becoming a folk tale one day, just like the stories your grandma and grandpa tell. My kids now, look at me like, “yeah right”. I’m only 36 years old. My question (one of), a road? Where and who has to get to point A to point B, that is soooo important that they can’t make a turn here or there. Is nothing sacride anymore? I truely fear the future of America. Man made ‘wonders of the world’ are nice to look at, but a natural ‘wonder of the world’…………Is the almighty dollar more important? (By the way, what can you buy for a dollar now days?)

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-8988 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:41:44 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-8988 Real or not, SteezJuice, it’s all meant in fun. I always enjoyed seeing the billboard for these tourists traps all over the place: Wall Drug, the House on the Rock, the Cave of the Mounds, etc. I remember them as much as the actual attractions.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-49178 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:41:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-49178 Real or not, SteezJuice, it’s all meant in fun. I always enjoyed seeing the billboard for these tourists traps all over the place: Wall Drug, the House on the Rock, the Cave of the Mounds, etc. I remember them as much as the actual attractions.

]]> By: Christian Johnson https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-8985 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:44:32 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-8985 As the Roadside America site says, “when was the last time you enjoyed a vacation accompanied by a skeptic?”

It’s one thing to be a skeptic, it’s quite another to be a curmudgeony skeptic.

I am a big lover of Roadside weirdness. One of my favorite places to visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-mGPHyB3c is a mall now.

]]> By: Christian Johnson https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-49177 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:44:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-49177 As the Roadside America site says, “when was the last time you enjoyed a vacation accompanied by a skeptic?”

It’s one thing to be a skeptic, it’s quite another to be a curmudgeony skeptic.

I am a big lover of Roadside weirdness. One of my favorite places to visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-mGPHyB3c is a mall now.

]]> By: Lester https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-8980 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:46:43 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-8980 I remeber going there as a child and teenager (I’m now 50) and how in awe it left me? Also it left me thinking about how or what made things behave differently there. I took my children there when they were too young to really think about it (nor remember it), but they certainlly enjoyed it while we were there. Many years later, after our annual fall hike in nearby Devil’s Head park, we made a short detour through the Dells. When I noticed that we had just driven past the “Wonder Spot” I made him turn around so my now teenage kids could go see it. They appeared to be closed for the season. Both of my kids were disappointed that we couldn’t go in, my son even wanted to make a special trip there during “On Season,” so he could see it. I wish we had now.

Even if it is a “hoax,” it has stuck in my mind all of these years. It is one of those places that you bring your kids to see. It was an odd little family attraction that somehow seemed to find it’s way into many peoples memories. I will miss it.

]]> By: Lester https://www.forbeck.com/2007/02/05/wonder-spot-to-close/#comment-49176 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/?p=833#comment-49176 I remeber going there as a child and teenager (I’m now 50) and how in awe it left me? Also it left me thinking about how or what made things behave differently there. I took my children there when they were too young to really think about it (nor remember it), but they certainlly enjoyed it while we were there. Many years later, after our annual fall hike in nearby Devil’s Head park, we made a short detour through the Dells. When I noticed that we had just driven past the “Wonder Spot” I made him turn around so my now teenage kids could go see it. They appeared to be closed for the season. Both of my kids were disappointed that we couldn’t go in, my son even wanted to make a special trip there during “On Season,” so he could see it. I wish we had now.

Even if it is a “hoax,” it has stuck in my mind all of these years. It is one of those places that you bring your kids to see. It was an odd little family attraction that somehow seemed to find it’s way into many peoples memories. I will miss it.

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