What’s going on at Pleasure Beach? OIB’s man in the sky Morgan Kaolian snapped this shot a few days ago of United Illuminating workers replacing utility poles. Uh, power for visiting peeps?
Pleasure Beach, once a whirlwind amusement park and recreation joy, has been cut off from the Bridgeport mainland since 1996 when a fire struck the wooden bridge. There is land access to the peninsula from Stratford. There was talk about the feds taking it over for light recreational use, then talk about a water taxi service. But that assumes visitors could actually do something there. But if city parks chief Charlie Carroll can get the peninsula cleaned up, ball fields transformed, pavilion opened for beach and sunbathers this could be a nice 2011 election season nugget for Mayor Bill Finch. So who knows, maybe a reopening of Pleasure Beach with water taxi service next spring?
If the Ferry Company were allowed to move across the harbor, this could be a table-setter for water taxis to Pleasure Beach and Downtown!
Seriously? Charlie Carroll??
ay Dios mío
Remember Lily Tomlin? She was the lady jokester who mimicked the telephone operator? She had the standing line “one ringy dingy, two ringy dingies….”
Let’s play …
(One ringy dingy, two ringy dingies)
“Hello, United Illuminating Company, may I help you?”
“Why, yes! This is OIB, prying open the juicy stuff. I have a question!”
“Well, by all means, sir. What is your question?”
“Well my OIB posse wants to know how four UI trucks got over to Pleasure Beach when the bridge is burned out. And then they want to know why new lighting fixtures are being installed. And then, what is the United Illuminating Company planning on illuminating? Can you illuminate us on this dark issue?”
Why, yes, Mr OIB, sir, I can. The United Illuminating Company is on Pleasure beach to illuminate ___ ___ ___.”
And that’s how it’s done.
Does someone need a quarter?
Shouldn’t they be arrested for trespass?