If the picture looks like some tourist snapped it at some old ghost town in the American Southwest, it is probably supposed to, but it would be hard to be more wrong. It was actually taken by Australian photographer Shane Thoms at an abandoned amusement park in Japan.
The place was called Western Village and closed in 2007 after failing to compete with the Japanese Disneyland. Built in 1979, seventy miles north of Toyko, Western Village included a cowboy saloon, jail, post office, shooting gallery, a fake Rio Grande. There is even a 1/3 scale replica of Mount Rushmore that was added in 1995 and allegedly cost the park $27 million to build.
Thoms is a guy who thinks abandoned theme parks are more fun than the ones in operation. You can see more of his photos from Western Village HERE. and even more photos Posted Here by a group called Haikyo.org.
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