PTL / Heritage USA: 22 Years Later- 6/26/09- Vid #3

[mstmimosa]

WOW!!!! I am fond of all things abandoned or left... there is a word for this I am sure, I guess you could say it is just.... ME! The geek! But this video seals what I have been watching for the past couple weeks about Heritage. after watching all your earlier videos to have this one open here just put 20 years into prospective... I can't say thanks enough!!! I love this!

[CincinnatiGifts]

@mstmimosa- Thanks a bunch. I tried to document what what there in the 80's, as well as what remains standing today. Oddly, I think the tram station in this video HAS been revitalized and restored. I haven't been back since this vid was recorded. Perhaps someone else can verify this.

[johncassity123]

@Nash1a your thinking of the outdoor theater the entrance looked like a castle

[Bizkits531]

I was there from years of 83 to 88, every summer, I do not remember that building that looked like the Disney castle!!

[CincinnatiGifts]

@Bizkits531- It was one of those structures that was never fully completed, and therefore never really opened. It was intended to be a Wendy's restaurant prior to H USA's collapse. Later, it was turned in to some type of go-kart track. Ironically, this castle is still one of the few, few PTL structures still standing today, unless it's been demolished recently. It really looks so out-of-place now, with all these new homes springing up all over the place.

[Nash1a]

I remember that Castle looking thingy. It must have been modified after the fall of the ministry because that was supposed to me the 'upper room' prayer center. I'm not absolutely sure but I would suppose the castle spires were added during one of the many failed attempts to refurbish and repurpose the property. But I do remember seeing that building without the spires.

[CincinnatiGifts]

@Nash1a Actually, you are getting two completely different buildings confused. There actually was (and continues to exist, at least as of 2009) an Upper Room building, which was located very close to the outdoor ampitheatre. The castle is a completely different structure, located away from the Upper Room. The castle is actually located very close to the former PTL Partner Center and close to the former Heritage Island water park- about a 1/2 from the Upper Room building.

[Nash1a]

@CincinnatiGifts Yep, your right. I did a search on google images "PTL Upper room" and a different but similar looking building appeared. But I still maintain that I recognize this structure without the spires. I just can't remember what it was for. Was it supposed to be a mock up of solomon's temple?

[CincinnatiGifts]

@Nash1a Could be. Or possibly you happened to have seen the castle in a different stage of construction, in a state where it hadn't had its spires installed yet.

[Nash1a]

@CincinnatiGifts Ok, let me ask you this. You visited Heritage Village when it was open, right? I've only seen what they showed on TV. Pre 1987, do you remember seeing this structure WITH the Disney-esque castle spires? If you do, then, I'm just wrong.

What does look very familiar to me is the bottom and middle sections. The top part (the towers and points) looks to me like it was added on.

[StacyatLife]

Just think of how many happy people and families crossed over the water park bridge in the 1980s....and now....it is a desolate ruin....

I want to cry inside......

This has not been used or painted since 1988 obviously. I hope Jim does not see this...it would break his heart.

22 years had not been kind to H USA

[CincinnatiGifts]

No doubt millions of people had set foot inside the waterpark in the few short years it was open.

I am almost certain Jim (and possibly Tammy as well) has seen the remains of HUSA. In fact, I believe Jim actually spoke at the very same pulpit that was seen in an other 2009 video where the HGH lobby was converted to a church. I saw a video of him speaking to the congregation as it sat in the former lobby, and I think that video was recorded in the past couple months.

[ThoughtTraveler]

0:04 You can see where the old train ride tracks used to be...now filled in with gravel. Think of all the families that once rode the train all those years ago. Now gone.

[gregzintx]

ok i heard a hammer- lolololol

Greg

[gregzintx]

Dear God, this is terribly, they have from what I see broke alot of codes that my area would have been slapping fines right/left. I question these poeple as they have spent alot on advertising on their web design, but even if this is a bittersweet joy to watch, I say Jim Bakker wouldhave never allowed this ,it looks dangerous, NOT FOR ME AS I LOVE THE EDGE-LOL, But any child or elderly person is in danger on every corner. WOW-

Greg

[CincinnatiGifts]

Maybe they are paying off the building codes office!

Jim Bakker got upset when he saw light bulbs burned out around H USA! He never would have allowed buildings to have fallen into the condition as the ones I have shown in my videos.

[mas11068]

Quite baffling indeed that they wouldn't have fixed this up first thing given that it sits directly across from the hotel entrance and is VERY visable and VERY unsightly. They've owned this property for five years now. I would have thought that this would have been a priority. In most cities in the USA, the town or municipality would have condemned a structure like this and forced the owner to fix it up or knock it down.