Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: PAW 2002 - week 8 - Allan's Abandoned Pool
From: "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith@dcc.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:39:50 -0600

Allan,

Both Drayton Cooper and I have a fondness for old, deserted, decaying
(or rusting) things, and I think that it would make a good topic for a
gallery. I think that your entry this week is a great example of
something that was once clean and fun but now looks like death warmed
over.

I like it!

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of allan
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:16 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: PAW 2002 - week 8


Please visit my week 8 PAW here:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=134579


I've included an alternate.


Pleasureland was a public swimming pool in Oakland, NJ. Fifteen years
ago, a large group of out-of-towners descended on it for a day of fun.
Two rival groups of Rastafarians (this is what the news accounts of the
day called
them?) argued and the end result was a small arms battle that left two
dead and 8 to 12 (depending on source) wounded. Pleasureland never
reopened, and only recently has there been a move to reclaim the land
for use.

I know of Pleasureland because I dated a girl there as a teen. The trip
to Oakland seemed like an excursion to the country to a NYC boy--and in
a way it was. I never swam at Pleasureland, but a number of times I met
my girlfriend there to avoid her parents. In doing research about the
place, I came upon an interesting fact for you old-fart rockers. Where
did the Vanilla Fudge play the day before their first album was released
in 1967.

That's right! Pleasureland. Apparently it was a music venue from the
1940s untill the 1960s. I was unable to determine if there was a pool
during these years. 


Allan

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