Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! - -----Original Message----- 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html