Lately, I have been getting a good dose of behavioral do’s and don’ts. I am becoming quite an expert at it, ever since I rattled the authorities tail. So let’s see where you fall. Are you a Type A or Type B. After you take the quiz, see if you can guess where I fit in.

You know all of us are like cans in a supermarket, we just have to be labeled. I just want to remind the folks in the middle of town that class is not dismissed. You soon will be having your “history” lesson.

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I liked the question that asked do you look at your watch when you have nothing to do or are bored. That reminds me of someone that has a pre occupation with time.

Ok, time to go. I have to run down the Hall to answer my phone.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND AGAIN!!!

New photos of Pleasure Beach. Taken in March 2008. It is quite different now. I actually went down there with someone and you can see the difference.

As I have stated before, many of the cottages shown in the Michael Raleigh photos from 2006 were destroyed by vandals.

I am including a narrative of events as well so you can understand the tragedy of this. It is weird to go there. I and my friend saw our lives come and go when we were there. Sometimes I feel like Pleasure Beach, once vibrant and new, and now old and fading.

Here is a perfect example of beach front property that is worth NOTHING!!!

Pleasure Beach March 2008

Narrative from LYNOLSOFFICE

The last residents lost their long battle with the town of Stratford and finally left after Memorial Day 2007. Since then, the power and utilities have been cut and the peninsula has been vacant. The town had officially evicted them in 1997; a year after the Pleasure Beach Bridge went up in flames, cutting off all vehicular access. (It’s an almost two mile walk down the beach to get there now). Even before the bridge burned Stratford said they would no longer lease the land to the cottage owners because they could not provide emergency services as it took them such a long time to reach the remote area. Unfortunately, a week before my trip, a fire was set and three cottages were destroyed, and one more was demolished to stop the spread of the fire to the other forty something vacant cottages on Stratford’s section of the peninsula. You can tell from the state of the cottages that some were abandoned in 1996-1997, and others stayed on till the very end hoping for a court ruling in their favor, which was not to be. Moving day 2007 was like an emergency evacuation; there was no vehicle access to the peninsula, so owners took only what they felt they needed and left everything else when the barge came back to collect the moving vans that had been brought over across Lewis Gut earlier in the day. Pictures cannot capture the weirdness of actually being out there; in what were once a cozy summer beach community, and a beautiful city park and beach, now a deteriorating piece of land in total silence and isolation surrounded by a busy city and its crowded suburbs.