The Ghost Town at Pleasure Beach
NOTE:It’s been brought to our attention by our readers that the remaining buildings of the amusement park were mysteriously demolished sometime in late August or the first week of September, 2009. The public is being urged to avoid visiting the area.
What: Connecticut’s largest ghost town
Where: Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport & Stratford, CT (map)
Admission: Private Property, “No Trespassing” Posted. Violators risk arrest.
Best Time of Year: Spring through Fall
Abandoned Since: 1996
Pleasure Beach is the Bridgeport portion of a Connecticut barrier beach that extends 2-1/2 miles westerly from Point No Point (the portion in the adjoining town of Stratford is known as Long Beach). The area is Connecticut’s largest and most recent ghost town and abandoned recently in the late 90′s after arsonists torched the bridge connecting it to main land.
From 1892 until 1958, it was home to a popular amusement park of the same name. From 1904 to 1919, it was called “Steeplechase Island.” The amusement park was accessible primarily by ferry service and a wooden swing bridge built in 1919 to carry automobiles and pedestrians. Remaining structures from the amusement park are the carousel, dodge-’em car enclosure, and beer garden (the latter was substantially altered for use as a summer theater in the 1960s).
After a portion of the bridge burned in 1996, Pleasure Beach was cut off and became accessible only by a lengthy trek along the shoreline, or by small private boats from the mainland. This has severely limited access and allowed nature to be undisturbed.
The transmitter towers for radio station WICC (AM) are located on Pleasure Beach. The station has to use amphibious landing craft when it needs to deliver cargo.
The area is a protected refuge for endangered birds (piping plover, osprey) and plants (prickly pear cactus, southern sea lavender). Sections of the beach are roped off seasonally to protect the plover nesting areas. There is also an abundance of white-tailed rabbits, deer, foxes, raccoons, and other mammals. The sand spit is estimated to contain more than 25% of the remaining undeveloped beachfront in the state.
The Town of Stratford owns 45 cottages on the Long Beach portion of the peninsula. For a decade, the town considered ending the leases of the seasonal homes, in part because of difficulties in protecting them. The town ended renewal of leases, and in May 2007, the remaining occupants agreed to give up their claims and moved their possessions away by barge. The cottages are now open to the weather and vandals, which has led to The Town Closing access and making it illegal to trespass and violators risk arrest.
As of July 2008, three of the 45 cottages have suffered arson attacks and burned completely, and every building located on Pleasure Beach has suffered vandalism. Four vehicles have been removed, and the area is littered with trash from squatters and party-goers. The mayor of Stratford is working to clean the land and possible transactions exist to sell the Long Beach land to the Department of Environmental Conservation or to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
On July 25, 2008 the governor of Connecticut M. Jodi Rell endorsed spending $150,000.00 to study the feasibility of restoring access to Pleasure Beach, possibly by rebuilding the bridge.
The Carousel: One of the few remaining structures from the old amusement park.
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prickly pear grows in CT? amazing.
wonderful post!
of course, just knowing the place is closed off makes me want to visit. there’s something about abandoned amusement parks that brings back the haunting writings of ray bradbury, no?
Yes it does. It was one of the first things I noticed there. Seems very out of place.
These ghost towns are a sad reminder of what is happening all across America, and it is
not just in older towns. There are new developments that are modern day ghost towns.
We have them very close to us here. New, and no owners. Where did the 5,000 people go
that lost their homes in our area? They lost their spirit perhaps. Typical of a Ghost I
imagine. And the living, where is their spirit?
Uh… why didn’t they just rebuild the bridge?
Anyway, very cool pictures.
One reason was that the cottages were owned by the town, and they had already been considering ending the leases for about a decade prior to the fire, in part because of difficulties in protecting them.
Thanks for the compliment about the pictures.
wow, this is kindof creepy/weird. I think i have been there…like these pictures gave me a deja vu feeling. It’s kindof freaking me out. i think i was really little or something, thats what it feels like
i wouldnt call it a ghost town at all. i was there today. its just an abandoned island, with old cottages and a ton of cool stuff.
Kyle, That is what a ghost town is.
I love these pictures! Why hasn’t anything been done about this plae? You would think that it would be prime location. I wish I could go visit,
I’m from Bpt. I remember as a kid going fishing on the peer with my father. Thanks for the pics. Brought back memories.
reminds me of chernobyl pics. eeeeerrrriiiieeeee….
i went to pleasure beach ghost town just yesterday and it was great. rather creepy at first though. everything was left in the houses completely trashed. looks like the people that lived there left everything they owned. i found some papers from a trial in a home that belonged to the Mcdonold family. there were all kinds of family history papers and many of the homes were religous.. there were really really old phones and bikes in some of the homes.. since they left in the 90′s i find it strange they had things so old.. at the abandoned resturaunt birds were tearing up the roof we could hear.. everything was trashed but like i said we did see lots of papers on the families that lived there.. very cool
WENT TO PLEASURE BEACH AS A KID IN THE FIFTIES.
MY FATHER AND UNCLE WRE MUSICIANS THAT HAD GIGS THERE.
IT`S SAD TO SEE IT THE WAY IT IS NOW.
I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF THAT GREAT PLACE.
I used to live 2 blocks from this beach on Deforest Avenue. I live in Atlanta now. I remember jumping off the pier as a kid and swimming at the beach. I also remember walking on the rocks all the way to the end. It’s just makes me sad that the State of Connecticut, will all the money it gains from highest in the country tax revenue, doesn’t do anything to fix this park to provide more things to do in the city.
I was at pleasure beach today with some friends. Its creepy but really really cool. You would never think all that was just sitting there at the end of a beach. Def goin back soon!
Man i walked their a few days ago imma go again but the animals scared me lol no joke
I just went there recently and the carousel actually collapsed; the only bulinding from the amusement park that is still standing is where the bumper cars were.
It appears all of the buildings in the pleasure beach section have been demolished. The cottages will follow soon.
I was contracted to go out there and had no previous info on the area. I was surprised to see how it appears the owners just stopped coming. All the appliances are there, many personal items (mail, books, documents etc..). Access was easy, although I went the first time alone, quickly turned around and went back to Strafford to get reinforcements. It was apparent that someone has or was living there. Cool Place quite a shame. I was told the reason they didn’t fix the bridge, which didn’t look that bad. was because the land is in Strafford and the bridge is in Bridgeport. So the city of Bridgeport would need to fix the bridge and yet not receive any taxes or be able to recoup any cost from anyone.
I used to go fishing with my Dad there in the 60′s. We would go almost every day after my Dad got home from work at Bridgeport Metal goods. Of course being a kid I played more than I fished. I remember the snack bar that was close to the Bridgeport side bridge entrance. Sometimes my Dad would let me get some snack to eat there. Back in the 60′s you could still look in the Carousel and see the carousel horses still in there.
From what I was told there was a small train that would pick up people by the bridge that is near the burned up one. In the 60′s you could find the train tracks under the sand on that side of the island.
I also remember that the Police used to have a place to train their dogs at one time back then on the island.
Lots of good memories hanging out on Pleasure beach.
That’s a perfect photography.Great art and Craft. you shows the real scar of this place!You done a very good work Carry on~!bye.
I was there last week with a friend…. got a real taste of history…. in its day it must have been the place to live and just be… so sad that it is what it is today…. I am so glad i got to walk it. I really hope to get out there before they tear the cottages down… rumer has it that this will start in the spring.
went there last week. very depressing, its sad to see what happened there. as a kid in the late 60s and all through the 70s me, my sister and father would walk pleasure beach, fish off the pier and the rocks. i remember the hotdog stand at the begining pf the pier. the old lady there used to serve you food and bait. hahaha. the good times those people must of had….
I grew up in the south end of bpt by seaside park,but we use to ride our bikes and go fishing at pleasure beach,even after i was older i would always take a drive there.I was sad when the brdge burnt down(rumors has it someone thru a lit cigarette on the brdge)dont’t know if that’s true. I also went to camp there.As a kid in the 70′s I always wondered how fun it would have been to come to the amusement park.they said it was too expensive to biuld a bridge or repair the old one.good pictures!
They say the reason to throw the residents out was , because the bridge burned, the town could not provide fire and police protection. They said there was no vehicular access. Now that the town voted to sell the land to the feds, lo and behold, by moving one rock in the parking lot, the town now regularly drives pickup trucks into the area. For one small rock, those people were thrown out of their homes. Something stinks about this deal, and the townspeople will find out what too late.
Growing up there I spent much time fishing with my father and grandfather around the area. My Grandfather owned 197 Hollister Ave where we all lived and we spent much time at the amusement park on Pleasure Beach. I remember when the amusement park closed and was very sad. I still remember the snack shack near the turret bridge, fishing on the Lewis Gut side and off the pier. I once caught a nurse shark off the pier but when my grandfather saw it he cut the line and that was that! I remember fishing on the north side just east of the bridge early in the morning there was a short Italian gentleman who would set his row boat and load four eel traps in it with a burlap bag of horseshoe crabs. He would then row out into the weeds pull out the crabs and split them with a hatchet, put them into the traps and over the side they went. Later around noon he came back and pulled out the traps and leave. There were quite a few eels in these traps so I can only imagine he took them to sell at market. I don’t know if the fishing is any good anymore but back then we always came home with more than enough fish or eels to eat. My Grandmother would pickle the excess fish and eels we caught and they were very good. It’s very sad to see what has happened to this area as I have many fond memories growing up there. I hope I can visit again before the place is totally gone. By the way my family moved to central New York in 1963 and I’m still here but miss the ocean very much.
Where was the access from Stratford to take the bridge to Pleasure Beach? If you were to go there via walking along the shore in Stratford where would you start from? Lordship? Thanks for the info. Great Pictures!!!
I think the town burned down the bridge. The reason they never fixed it was because they were leasing the land, and it was getting entirely too costly to maintain it.
Recently, two historic buildings were knocked down by a company out there working on the radio towers. At first both the mayors of Bridgeport and Stratford denied knowing anything about it, but then later the Bridgeport Mayor Finch said he found out the fire department had asked them to do it. I think both him and the fire chief should have been tried.
The state recieved over $900k to remove the cottages on the Stratford side, which they will then sell to the US fish and wildlife services for over 10 million, to make a reserve.
I went to Pleasure Beach tonight with my boyfriend and his friend. This was my first time going–I had actaully never heard of it and I have lived in Connecticut my entire life.
The question–rumors claim Pleasure Beach is haunted. Is this true? I mean, we went in the evening, It’s nearly 10:00 PM and I just got home so obviously it was creepy… But really, someone give me an answer! (amanda_sardi@yahoo.com)
I have a photo of my mother, sisters and brother on the beach in the early 50″s. My brother and I used to fish off the rocks and my dad took us out on the pier to fish as well. The first Roller Coaster I ever rode was on Pleasure Beach. The place always had a wonderful feeling about it. I don’t think its haunted, its just haunted by many memories of the people who lived there and the residents who really enjoyed it for what is was.
We didn’t have a car so we would take the bus out to the island, I remember the snack bar and the great hot dogs and all the horseshoe crabs.
It is truly sad to see what has happened to Bridgeport and Pleasure Beach. I moved away in 1979 and after looking at these photos I would never consider moving back.
A Friend of mine had a cottage there in the early 60′s. We went there in the fall to winterize the plumbing in His Cottage. He showed Me the amusement park, and of particular interest to Me was the Merry Go Round, since I operated the one at Lake Quassapaug(Quassy)park in Middlebury for about 30 years. The one at Pleasure Beach was still complete and operable, as I was told it was used in the summer for the Police athletic league for kids to use when the league had their outings there. I see now that there is barely anything left of the old building the Merry Go Round was in. Does anyone know where the old Ride went? Was it sold? Auctioned off? Or Stolen? Feel free to contact Me anytime at: NiteOwlDJ2@aol.com Chuck “Carousel” Charlie
The people left everything behind them because they knew what was really going on there……Is Haunted….and is true because my aunt lived there…she used to be very mysterious or i should say a creepy life maybe because it was extreme…She disapeared out of the face of the earth at the end…and her house was found intact…Truth is that if u know about heavy bad spiritual energy and u go there…Ull feel it….is a sense of emptiness nonsense that will multiply the longer u stay
Truly sad what has happened to Pleasure Beach. I used to go there almost every day in the mid 80′s with my son who was at the time just a toddler. Spent many wonderful summers there. When I moved away I really missed having the beach so close. I come back to CT after many years and the beach is long gone. That place holds many wonderful memories for many, many people including myself. I sure hope someone with money will turn it back into what is used to be…I beautiful island that is once was.
I lived there every summer from 1995 til 2004. We were out there when the bridge burnt down and we were stuck out there an extra day. It is my knowledge that bpt just didnt want to rebuild the bridge due to not having any $ to do it. My dad then bought a small boat so we could get back and forth. In the first picture you can kind of see my cottage all the way to the right, next to the red cottage, you can only see the porch, and boarded up windows. I lived there for 8 years and never saw, or felt any presence of any ghosts, so the island, which is really a pennusula is not haunted at all, i dont know where people get these ideas. Believe me i have been all over every inch of that place, and inside most building and houses on the stfd and bpt sides, and the only thing that creeped me out was the fact that it was eerily quiet. It was a very family oriented place and im so thankful for all my summers out there, riding jet skis, playing on the beach..etc. Yes stfd didnt want us out there because as they said you couldnt get emergency vehicles out there, because there was no road, but all the family’s wanted to sign a release so stfd wouldnt be held responsible for any damage. All the years i was out there, there was no vandalism, and i always felt completely safe. As soon as stfd made people move out houses start burning down and all houses are ransacked, its a real shame, and now they have a make shift road, so ironic. There are about 40 cottages i think out there and after the bridge burnt only a hand full of people came back, people left things because it probably wasnt worth them paying to get a barge out there to take it off, and didnt come back because they didnt want to buy a boat i guess. I have been back since its been vandalized and it made me extremly emotional when i went into my cottage, it was so strange, because just like everyone else we left stuff there, everything in my cottage and most other looks like it has been turned upside down, its very sad, but im happy to have all my memories out there.
Judas….that’s just too funny.
There is one house still standing as of today, November 21, 2010. The complete clean-up and restoring the Stratford property “back to nature” will be a long process, if it ever happens. There are hundreds of tons of asphalt and concrete in the area. Even from the Long Beach parking lot to the cottage area there is asphalt buried under the sand, under the temporary gravel access road. That was the access to the cottages many years ago.
I love the beach in this area. It’s so serene, walking the full length in the colder months, no one around, just the seagulls to talk to. Deer tracks in the sand……….shoes, party ballons, lobster trap markers, ugly plastic, pretty sea glass……..
Pleasure Beach was a big treat for us as kids.
I lived in Stratford until my 20′s.
When I was 15 I was employed for just one weekend in the Skiball concession, and it was so utterly boring I simply did not show up the next weekend. I was accused of all sorts of crimes. My mother shamed me about it, but I never went back. It was my first job and I didn’t like boring work.Instead, I’m now a philosophy professor. Never bored.
Chuck, the carousel is now on display at Beardsley zoo in Bridgeport at the carousel there. (The horses have been restored by donations and put out on display)there is an excellent documentary about the building and the horses and the park in general at http://www.savepleasurebeach.org which I would recommend to anyone who has an interest in the park.
Personally I have an interest because I used to hear stories when I was little, my parents met at pleasure Beach in 1958, I believe. They used to go to the dances at the Ballroom there and spent a lot of time at the beach and the amusement park. My aunt told me that on dime day they were in heaven because they could ride 10 rides for a buck!
Sorry, that link is savepleasurebeach.com not org!
Its actually kind of sad because it looks like all the happiness has been taken out of that island.. i think hey should start fresh on the island. they should rebuild the bridge and rebuild the Small, fun town that was there. Agree?
Next to the carousel house was the Polka Dot Playhouse and in the late 80′s I had a chance to work on a show there; the place was a fascinating little theater, in the round with a main stage and two smaller stages on either side. Driving out on that bridge at night was an adventure…but I loved working there and it’s so sad to think that it’s gone.
Maybe all the over paid, over benefitted state workers can donate some money and restore it.
Unbelieveable!!Had my first roller coaster ride there. Then as I got older the “Tunnel of Love” was the great thing to take your date on. I can still hear the sound of the big bands. Walked right by Rosemary Clooney and her sister. Nobody paid much attention to them then. They were singing with the the Tony Pastor Band. They had a dance marathon there. Everyone danced until they dropped. The last couple standing were the winners. Guess who one of the contestants was? None other than Tony Bennett….Tony Benedetto in those days. Ah yes, Pleasure Beach gave me so many moments of pleasure.
I am amazed that of all the comments regarding the present status of
Pleasure Beach, there was only one that mentioned the hugely successful and well-known entertainment venue known as the Polka-Dot Playhouse, a community theatre that was built next to the carousel. The Playhouse, a really beautifully designed, circular building with a ‘wrap-around’,lobby, a well-equipped stage and auditorium seating 260,opened in 1967 and operated with local talent serving audiences drawn from a wide regional area for nearly 40 years (until the bridge burned in 1996) The Polka-Dot Playhouse still exists (only now known as ‘The Playhouse on the Green’) until recently in a stunning new theatre in downtown Bridgeport. Ironically, this latest ‘home’ of the Playhouse, built to replace the Pleasure Beach Theatre (no longer accessible due to the bridge fire), under the provision of a $3,000,000 grant given by the State of Connecticut and the city of Bridgeport from CONNECTICUT TAXPAYER DOLLARS!) may lose its newest quarters. The building in which the theatre had been newly constructed under a lease arrangement with People’s United Bank, the building’s owner,has been recently sold to a real estate investment firm. The new owners, Forstone Capital,who purchased the building housing the new theatre from Peoples United Bank for the unheard of ‘rock-bottem’ price of just $175,000, immediately set a new,very high leasehold (rental)fee that was impossible for the Playhouse to pay – hence the Playhouse organization has been evicted from its home and Forstone Capital has aquired a property in downtown Bridgeport in a prime location for only $175,000! which includes a beautiful theatre built with $3,000,000 of Connecticut taxpayer money! It’s all true and for those who may doubt that such a rotten deal could have been pulled off, just check the deed of sale at the Town Clerk’s office in Bridgeport City Hall! or better yet, call Peoples United Bank and ask the President (good luck if you can get to him!) if, indeed,the sale went through and while you are asking him, ask him why he didn’t give the Playhouse a chance to buy back their own theatre, if he was so anxious to sell the building at such a ridiculously low price.
I truly hope this blog will spark some conversation, but I can’t help wondering if any body gives a hoot about what ever happened to the Polka-Dot Playhouse after Pleasure Beach lost its bridge and the Playhouse lost its ‘home’ since only one visitor in the 40 or so people who recently commented on their visit to Pleasure Beach ‘Ghost Town ever mentioned that beautiful little theatre that was the Polka-Dot Playhouse, a sad and, yes ‘haunting’,lonely remnant of what it once was – a bustling,lively, happy vortex of laughter, music, creative energy and talented people enjoying the wonderful make-believe world of the stage. The building still stands but it is now just a shell slowly and inevitably disintigrating. Without an access to the island, it will fade away and will exist only as a memory. But, the Playhouse can and will go on, in Bridgeport in a new life and with new energy if the wrong done by the unjust sale of the Playhouse(now known as The Playhouse on the Green) is undone and the Playhouse is restored to its rightful home across from McLevy Square on State Street in dowtown Bridgeport. If you have read this thus far, join the cause – call on the Mayor to correct this injustice of the eviction of the Playhouse from its well-deserved theatre bought and paid for by your taxpayer dollars! Write the Connecticut Post! Help us to take back the theatre that belongs to the citizens of Bridgeport not to a real estate investment firm who has no right to what taxpayer dollars provided for Bridgeport citizens!
I grew up in the fifties in the East Side. Spent a lot of time at Pleasure Beach. My friend’s family had a cottage there. Great snapper blue fishing in August and September. Bridgeport has always been the home of incompetent politicians and corruption. Mayor McLevy once said that God put it there and he will take it away when asked by a reporter from the Bridgeport Post why the roads were not being plowed. Made spending money collecting “numbers” and paying the local cops every Friday at the Savoy Hotel. Millions of federal “urban renewal” dollars have disappeared in Bridgeport. Enough to build a bride of gold to Pleasure Beach. There is a great novel there, fact and fiction. How about we stage a demonstration one weekend. Bet we could round up thousands of folks that grew up there and enjoyed the beach, cottages, fishing pier and amusement park. The old rickety wooden roller coaster was a hoot. The operator would just let you keep riding as long as there were extra seats. The local bureaucrat are the ones creating the haunted nonsense. They stand to get very rich when the state or feds buys the property. Do not go there after dark. Some very unsavory folks are paid to scare folks away, vandalize, and make it an unpleasant place to visit.
Wow : I have to try and dig up some old pics of pleasure beach. It was beautiful. I loved the carousel It was so much fun. I went there in the 50′s,60′ I remember when the old wooden bridge was there. I use to be so afraid to go over it in the car. Also remember as it started to go down hill. The dance hall, carousel all of it. The little cottages. My older sisters use to tell me that they use to go there all the time when they were young too. Plus my grandmother who passed in 1978 at the age of 84 use to tell me about all the dances and different bands that would come in there. Talk about being haunted I bet their are a few ghost out that way. I do not know when it was build but it has been around for a very long time. I would be curious to know when the 1st cottage and who built it and when the amusment park 1 st open.
It is just so sad to see what was once such a beautiful park go into shambles. I remember walking with my parents and siblings to pleasure beach when I was younger and being able to enjoy the rest of the day at the park without any worries what-so-ever. I was always nervous when going over the bridge, but it was exciting at the same time. I do miss those days and wish that the park was still open for my new family to visit sometime. It will definately bring back lots of good memories!! Hopefully, someday it will be rebuilt back to what it used to be!
This is addressed to David and his welcome comments regarding the Polka-Dot Playhouse. You got it all right, David regarding the shameful transaction of United Peoples Bank in selling the building housing the new Playhouse (now known as ‘The Playhouse on the Green’) to Forstone Capital. My name is also David, David D. Reed and I am the founder of the Polka-Dot Playhouse way back in 1954 in Stratford,Ct.I am still alive at 83 and I would hope to welcome you to join an already organized effort to ‘Take back the Playhouse’! If anyone thinks that I, as the founder of the Playhouse, intend to allow this irresponsible action of Peoples Bank to ignore the issue of the millions of Connecticut taxpayer dollars being passed on to the interest of a real estate investment group in such a disgraceful acquisition as the sale of the building housing the new Playhouse on the Green,(which was intended to be a permanent home for the Playhouse,) without my leading a campaign to oppose it, they had better be prepared to get up a lot earlier in the morning than I do, if you take my meaning! Please, everyone who reads this and cares about the survival of the Playhouse and the Arts in Bridgeport, contact me by my email, especially you, David, and help us ‘Take Back The Playhouse’! We can and we will do it, but we need everybody’s help! Join the cause! DON’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!
I am 54 years old and remember going on a ride that was like a “whip” with my mother. It must have been the early 60′s and I was probably about 5 or 6 years old.
I never got to go to Pleasure Beach, because I grew up in Brooklyn NY, but I saw the same kind of decay and neglect happen to Coney Island, which now, thankfully, is being retored to some of it’s former glory. In these hard financial times, the state of Connecticut could benefit from tourism dollars that could potentially be spent at a place like Pleasure Beach. It would take a lot of money but it has the potential to could become a smaller “Coney Island”.Instead of letting the Department of Environmental Conservation or to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have this island, the people of Connecticut should be able to enjoy this treasure! Stratford and Bridgeport should consider a “partnership” towards the development of this “forgotten, abandoned treasure”! Selling the idea to perhaps a company who could build a casino, seaside hotel and amusement park, could bring millions of tourism dollars to Connecticut, that would otherwise be spent somewhere else. Ideas to rebuild could include a “lottery ticket” designated to rebuild Pleasure Island. Long-term leases on the land to pontential companies that would build concessions, rides, etc, could help off-set the costs of rebuilding. Connecticut attraches many out-of-state tourists to our shoreline towns and casinos. Wouldn’t this make financial sense to invest in an attraction that would appeal to the family-oriented tourism sector? Connecticut needs to compete with other sourrounding states to draw the tourism dollar here! And just like what is happening at Coney Island now, a whole new generation could come and build new memories here! Contact your state representatives and let them know that Connecticut’s residents should decide the fate of Pleasure Island…not the state!
Wow I stumbled on this site and it solved a family mystery. My wonderful grandmother who bless her was 102yrs when she passed, loved to talk about Pleasure beach. Now I have a glimpse of what she loved. Why did we let such a wonderful venue for families slip through the cracks. Bring back the old days!
I went there last year with my friend. There are a few buildings left standing, and there’s things everywhere. I found the greater part of a wedding plate. It’s eerily quite, so when the wind blew open a door, we got spooked and ran. Also, someone had trashed the demolishing vehicles (though I don’t blame them).
I remember driving home from a family members house with my parents when i was younger and riding on I-95 and remember seeing the amusement park lit up!!! i would always sit on the side in which we were driving so i could see it as we would drive by.
How a small memory can come back from such a site!!!