Pleasure Beach

limey · 01-19-2009, 03:53 PM

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??

HungLikeJesus · 01-19-2009, 04:00 PM

This seems to explain it:

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

TheMercenary · 01-19-2009, 04:09 PM

{answered above}

classicman · 01-19-2009, 06:47 PM

Quote:

COLFAX, Washington - A man is facing a sentence of one-and-a-half months after admitting he stole 93 pounds of women's undergarments.

Garth Flaherty, 24, was charged with first-degree theft and burglary in the stealing of 1,613 pairs of panties, bras and other women's underwear from laundry rooms.

Under an agreement with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday in Whitman County Superior Court to 45 days in jail. He may serve 30 days of his term in community service, court officials said.

Too bizarre to be fake!

TheMercenary · 01-19-2009, 06:51 PM

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

classicman · 01-19-2009, 07:02 PM

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

richlevy · 01-19-2009, 09:10 PM

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.

spudcon · 01-19-2009, 09:59 PM

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

Sundae · 01-20-2009, 05:20 AM

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.

dmg1969 · 01-20-2009, 06:46 AM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 01-20-2009, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

...some little toerag comes along and damages it just because it's there. Hmpf.

Toerag? Where in hell does that come from?

Sundae · 01-20-2009, 11:45 AM

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!"

Shawnee123 · 01-20-2009, 12:04 PM

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.

lumberjim · 01-20-2009, 01:36 PM

IS THAT A PETRIFIED WHALE PENIS!>!>!??!?!>!!11/!?

TheMercenary · 01-20-2009, 01:51 PM

My God, I think you're right Jim.

01-19-2009, 03:53 PM	#1
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	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?? __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

01-19-2009, 04:00 PM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	This seems to explain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Beach __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-19-2009, 04:09 PM	#3
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	{answered above} __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-19-2009, 06:51 PM	#5
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Dude, I think you meant to post that somewhere else. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-19-2009, 07:02 PM	#6
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Shit! that was a link attached to the story about, I think, Boy George and his arrest. Oh well.... talk about thread drift! __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-19-2009, 09:10 PM	#7
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	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. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

01-19-2009, 09:59 PM	#8
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	It looks like the location of the movie "Carnival of Lost Souls." __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

01-20-2009, 05:20 AM	#9
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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.

01-20-2009, 06:46 AM	#10
dmg1969 I got nothing Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 486	Very cool site, Limey! It reminds me of a show I've seen on The History Channel...Life After People.

01-20-2009, 11:45 AM	#12
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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!"

01-20-2009, 12:04 PM	#13
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	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. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-20-2009, 01:36 PM	#14
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	IS THAT A PETRIFIED WHALE PENIS!>!>!??!?!>!!11/!? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-20-2009, 01:51 PM	#15
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	My God, I think you're right Jim. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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