movers long beach


During a recent trip to Connecticut, I decided to spend some time checking out the isolated peninsula of Pleasure Beach & Long Beach West in Bridgeport & Stratford. The last residents lost their long battle with the town of Stratford and finally left after Memorial Day 2007. Since then, the power and utilities have been cut and the peninsula has been vacant. The town had officially evicted them in 1997; a year after the Pleasure Beach Bridge went up in flames, cutting off all vehicular access. (It’s an almost two mile walk down the beach to get there now). Even before the bridge burned Stratford said they would no longer lease the land to the cottage owners because they could not provide emergency services as it took them such a long time to reach the remote area. Unfortunately, a week before my trip, a fire was set and three cottages were destroyed, and one more was demolished to stop the spread of the fire to the other forty something vacant cottages on Stratford’s section of the peninsula. You can tell from the state of the cottages that some were abandoned in 1996-1997, and others stayed on till the very end hoping for a court ruling in their favor, which was not to be. Moving day 2007 was like an emergency evacuation; there was no vehicle access to the peninsula, so owners took only what they felt they needed and left everything else when the barge came back to collect the moving vans that had been brought over across Lewis Gut earlier in the day. Pictures cannot …