Comments | shanns_ljidol: Exhibit B: Ha-Ha (not to be confused with laughter)

shanns_ljidol

Exhibit B: Ha-Ha (not to be confused with laughter)

Jun 17, 2013 11:36

"Here I will spend my leisure, secure from the worries of business and the excitement of city life. I will fish and loaf and explore the caves of these hills, with no fear of intrusion."
-- Robert McClure Snyder about the property he bought to build the Ha Ha Tonka Castle

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ha ha, exhibit b

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shanns_ljidol June 17 2013, 22:46:01 UTC

It does doesn't it. It's like it was just a doomed project from the start.

jem0000000 June 18 2013, 03:52:20 UTC

Some buildings just seem to be super unlucky. It makes for a lovely ruin, though!

adoptedwriter June 18 2013, 14:56:19 UTC

Wow! What a cool place! I learned something new! AW

lrig_rorrim June 19 2013, 23:03:03 UTC

I love learning something new, and this was a neat look at a place I never would have heard about otherwise. Thank you for sharing with us!

halfshellvenus June 20 2013, 00:23:16 UTC

I loved some of the ironic factoids in this-- a castle built but never finished by one of the first people in the state to perish in an automobile accident.

It seems almost rude that there are pictures of the castle in flames in the middle there, because the ghost's POV is so convincing that you can tell how utterly horrifying that would be to him. "You burned my castle!"

And in the end, his castle is finally revered as he would have liked, but only to the point where form of reverance turns it into a place now crawling with strangers again.

This was one unlucky guy!