
Abandoned Appalachia If you grew up in Perry County in the 1980s or 1990s, it is hard to imagine Highway 15 without Fugate’s Entertainment Center. For a generation of mountain kids, the castle-front cinema, the boat-shaped water park, the roller rink, and the Bowl-A-Rama were where you spent birthday parties, youth-group trips, first dates, and long summer afternoons. By 2016 that world was already gone.






