Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-10 Thread P. J. Alling
The lease holders didn't want more help from Bridgeport, they had solutions for fire, police, and medical emergencies. The issue was more I think that they made Bridgeport's services look bad.  They paid their taxes and took almost nothing from the City. None of the people there were really r

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
On 8/8/2018 14:37, Rick Womer wrote: Odd. Got to them using my iPhone. Well done gallery; it makes me wonder what the Bridgeport government was thinking. Rick My guess is they didn't have the $20 plus million a replacement bridge was going to cost and couldn't justify spending taxpayer's mon

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-09 Thread P. J. Alling
Well, the swing bridge that served as the only land vehicle access to the area was one of the last wooden bridges in Connecticut, was 'accidentally' set on fire sometime in the 80's and was no longer in use.  Bridgeport refused to repair it, because it would cost more than the revenue from the

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-08 Thread Rick Womer
Odd. Got to them using my iPhone. Well done gallery; it makes me wonder what the Bridgeport government was thinking. Rick On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:34 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > I don't know how to fix that, I'm misusing dropbox, at least according to > them, and updog is an app that lets you use

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-07 Thread P. J. Alling
I don't know how to fix that, I'm misusing dropbox, at least according to them, and updog is an app that lets you use dropbox through them as a server.  It's free so I expect no support beyond faqs and howtos, neither of which seem to cover this.  Sorry about that. On 8/7/2018 4:33 PM, Rick W

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-07 Thread ann sanfedele
Well that worked for me -- very moving documentary - I looked at it before reading your history of it - Pictures worth a thousand words- thought maybe it was storm damage before abandonment... Good stuff, P.J. ann On 8/7/2018 1:24 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: The URL probably broke when it went t

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-07 Thread Rick Womer
PJ, Safari can't open the tinyurl either. Firefox gives me the message "Secure Connection Failed The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Pleas

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-07 Thread P. J. Alling
I'd also like to apologize that all the back links in that gallery seem to be broken. On 8/6/2018 4:20 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Another old GESO, now with a working url. Bridgeport's pleasure Beach abandoned by the residents after the city decided to not renew the leases on the land upon whic

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-07 Thread P. J. Alling
The URL probably broke when it went to two lines try this: https://tinyurl.com/yc4bphhl On 8/7/2018 9:31 AM, Rick Womer wrote: Neither page will open with either Safari or Firefox. Rick On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:52 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: To get it off the city books the it was transferred

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-07 Thread Rick Womer
Neither page will open with either Safari or Firefox. Rick On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:52 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > To get it off the city books the it was transferred to the Federal > Government as a wild life refuge. Not much in the way of endangered > species, in that area, but if anything goes

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-06 Thread P. J. Alling
To get it off the city books the it was transferred to the Federal Government as a wild life refuge.  Not much in the way of endangered species, in that area, but if anything goes wrong the city, isn't responsible, so I guess they consider it a win. On 8/6/2018 5:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-06 Thread Paul Stenquist
Fascinating. Well done. Who owns the property now? Paul > On Aug 6, 2018, at 4:28 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > Sorry about that, the index page is here: > https://pdml.updog.co/Connecticut%27s%20Ghost%20Town/GESO%20--%20afterthefall.html > > >> On 8/6/2018 4:20 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> Anot

Re: GESO -- Connecticut's Ghost Town

2018-08-06 Thread P. J. Alling
Sorry about that, the index page is here: https://pdml.updog.co/Connecticut%27s%20Ghost%20Town/GESO%20--%20afterthefall.html On 8/6/2018 4:20 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Another old GESO, now with a working url. Bridgeport's pleasure Beach abandoned by the residents after the city decided to not