Pleasure Beach
 

I stumbled upon the Preservation Photo site from a link here on the Cellar. I love it, I find the pics of deserted places really, really poignant. So where, folks, is Pleasure Beach? and why was it deserted in the (?) eighties??

This seems to explain it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Beach

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Dude, I think you meant to post that somewhere else.

Shit! that was a link attached to the story about, I think, Boy George and his arrest. Oh well.... talk about thread drift!

Some of those pictures were creepy, as if the occupants had to leave in a hurry. Maybe they couldn't fit everything on the barge, but the open drawers with clothes yanked out just seemed to suggest a hasty exit.

It looks like the location of the movie "Carnival of Lost Souls."

Argh, why are some people so destructive?!
Why, seeing something that poignant would you want to get out a spray can and write your silly little tag on the walls?

I hope in years to come, when those teens have their first house, their first decent car, some little toerag comes along and damages it just because it's there. Hmpf.

Great find Limey.

Very cool site, Limey! It reminds me of a show I've seen on The History Channel...Life After People.

Toerag? Where in hell does that come from? :lol2:

Ummmm... no idea.
Toe rag or toe-rag is more understandable and may even be more correct, but I've seen it written as toerag before.

I can only assume it refers to a rag used to clear detritus from between toes (toe jam as we call it). Which would make it nasty and scummy and low.

It's most used alongside words like dirty or nasty, and almost always with little. A person of no value, of criminal bent.

Practice it in your best English accent, "You dirty little toe-rag!"

I love those pictures. I get a feeling of melancholy about abandoned places, or buildings, or other structures. There is something beautiful about them.

Some may look at those pics and see desertion. I see a hidden history; I wonder about the people who once enjoyed those buildings. Somebody fell in love there, another lost their heart, someone enjoyed an ice cream cone, some child cried because their cone did not hold up to the summer heat. Some time in the spring, the place would come out of hibernation, and the locals would say "Hey, it must be spring, Pleasure Island is open again!"

These places speak to me.

Thanks for the link, limey.

http://www.preservationphoto.com/loc...h/beach163.jpg
IS THAT A PETRIFIED WHALE PENIS!>!>!??!?!>!!11/!?

My God, I think you're right Jim.

But it's dead, Jim.

That reminds me of this site, where a woman writes about her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl. It includes lots of pictures.

(There is some controversy over the authenticity of her story.)

Here are a few images from that site:

Images removed. Don't be hotlinking! It broke the Cellar page, there, for a while.

This is what she wrote:

This is what I believe she meant to write:

Seriously, who funds these people? I could be a real maverick go-getter wanderlust cool person too...if I had the support of whoever supports all these maverick cool people. :eyebrow:

Sorry, I didn't know that was a problem. I've done that several times in the past, including this post.

I've always wondered what hotlinking was.

Is that different from linking to pictures on a photo-sharing site?

Me? or HLJ?

HLJ, if you link from picture sharing sites it goes by their terms of service. If you link directly from other sites, that's hotlinking; it's considered poor form, or in worse cases stealing, because you wind up using their bandwidth to display the images.

What about post #14, above? Is that done in a different manner?

if hotlinking is a problem, why do we have the capability?

is it hotlinking to:

• right click a picture,
• click 'copy image location' and
• then hit the little yellow square insert picture icon^up there on the border of this text box,
• and paste the picture url in there?

Thanks for asking that question LJ. I've never know what hotlinking is but didn't like to ask for fear of appearing a mook!

Yes that would in fact be hotlinking.

Why *can* you do it? Because it's hard for CNN, for example, to determine whether you fetched that image because you were looking at a page on CNN, or because you were looking at a page on the Cellar. Your browser requests the image in nearly the same way.

There are techniques for limiting access, but they are tricky, and depend on the participation of the browser.

Hotlinking of Cellar images has been a big headache for me. Often I see traffic jump, only to find some remote blog in Russian has hotlinked the iotd.

Now I feel stupid. I probably hotlink a thousand times a day.

so what is your official stance on this, Ute?

the saving/resizing/uploading process is more time consuming, and you lose all control over where the image will wind up in your post.

but if you'd prefer we didn't do it......

I'm against it;

But with a few lines of code I might be able to put together something to replace it. xoB and Clod know... I gave them access to my quickie image uploader, so they could do IotDs without attachments. The Cellar can be its own image host. The only problem is, it's a fairly large security risk. But it's long time that it should be done.

Linked images have a habit of going away, sometimes quickly.

I was worried I was hotlinking. I don't think I even know how...now that I read this.

I save image to desktop. Compress for webpage...then manage attachments. I guess that's OK to do?

yes