#pontchartrain beach

[ootibilleaud]

A Decrepit Pier from what was formerly Pontchartrain Beach, New Orleans 2024

www.ootibilleaud.com

[stone-cold-groove]

Scenes from home, past and present.

[thatbanditqueen]

The Terror at Pontchartrain Beach

Summary: It's Halloween Weekend, 1955, and two seniors from New Orleans, Hortense and Joan, are dressed up in their costumes and heading to Ponchartrain Beach Amusement Park to for a night of fun. Turns out up and coming performer Elvis Presley is going to be on the main stage tonight, and he is making quite a splash with the locals.

WC: 3K

Warning: Minor blood and gore.

The first chapter of my three-part offering for Elvis-o-Ween 2024.

Happy reading...... if you dare!

No proofreading, no betas, honestly its the third attempt at something scary. But I just needed to get it out there before I lost my noirve, as the cowardly lion might say.

For @whositmcwhatsit some vitamin E for you

Tagging some friends, please share, comment and reblog.

Let me know if you want to be tagged (or untagged) in the coming chapters....

xoxox that bandit queen

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@ellie-24

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@ab4eva

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@presleygarden

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@dkayfixates

@elvispresleyslut

@eapep

[sanguisxferox]

~ Lake Pontchartrain beach, Lakeview beach

The emergency that night had been a curse that still hasn't been lifted, 'cause he hasn't crossed path with the vampire since that night. Six long fucking month. That night feels like a dream, 'cause really, who could be that perfect? Not just that, but also interested in him. To have someone like that in his life; some he'd just clicked with. Levi. He sighs. Maybe it'd all been in his head after all, cause there's nothing for him to hold on to—his scent, the taste of his tongue, of his lips, the cold touch of his hands, a smile to die for.

Maybe it's better that way. It's the kind of addiction that'd been dangerous for him. There's a part of him that is still freaked out about that meeting being a set up to kill him.

He sighs again, looking at the moon's reflection in the water, before he walks toward his favorite pier. He needs to forget the vampire; it's better that way. He keeps telling himself that—it's better that way.

Then he thinks his mind is playing tricks on his mind, 'cause he swears he can smell the vampire's scent in the warm breeze. Leto's head moves to the side, inhaling again.

"Levi." He murmurs; hope reignited just when he'd been about to snuff it out.

@frgdsecrts

[kadebronson]

01. monster mash - bobby pickett and the crypt-kickers

02. this is halloween - from the nightmare before christmas

03. halloween theme song - harley poe

04. monsters - mad marge and the stonecutters

05. monster smash - windy crankage

06. time warp - from the rocky horror picture show

07. life at last - from phantom of the paradise

08. scare me - ludo

09. mystery man - rotten reputation

10. thriller -michael jackson

11. walk like a zombie - horrorpops

12. early sunsets over monroeville - my chemical romance

13. zombie crush - groovie ghoulies

14. i am the living dead - harley poe

15. zombie dance - the cramps

16. where they wander - horrorpops

17. aim for the head - creature feature

18. zombie hop - zombina and the skeletones

19. go zombie - zombie girl

20. dial z for zombie - mad marge and the stonecutters

21. zombies ate my neighbors - single file

22. the walking dead - bella's bartok

23. zombies ate her brain - the creepshow

24. zombae - rotten reputation

25. teenage universal creature - bloodsucking zombies from outer space

26. here there be witches - creature feature

27. you're a witch - harley poe

28. big black witchcraft rock - the cramps

29. witch hunt - misfits

30. witches' wratch - the bridge city sinners

31. i know how to hex you - twin temple

32. teenagers from mars - misfits

33. look to the skies - creature feature

34. little green men - mad marge and the stonecutters

35. 50,000 spaceships (watching over me) - groovie ghoulies

36. bela lugosi's dead - bauhaus

37. vampira - misfits

38. vincent price - zombina and the skeletones

39. janet leigh - blood sucking zombies from outer space

40. hitchcock starlet - horrorpops

41. linda blair - blood sucking zombies from outer space

42. i wish bruce campbell was my boyfriend - the mary lous

43. late nite creature feature - harley poe

44. spook-o-rama - the circus contraption band

45. monster mutant boogie - bloodsucking zombies from outer space

46. i ain't nuthin' but a gorehound - the cramps

47. gorehound - harley poe

48. whore for horror - burly girlies

49. lake pontchartrain - ludo

50. the bog - nekrogoblikon

51. horrorbeach - horrorpops

52. blood beach - groovie ghoules

53. the horror of party beach - sloppy seconds

54. blood surf - blood sucking zombies from outer space

55. ghouls - horrorpops

56. demon lover - the creepshow

57. ode to the devil - mad marge and the stonecutters

58. the devil (didn't make me do it) - twin temple

59. demons - harley poe

60. satan's song - bella's bartok

61. skatanic - rotten reputation

62. at the devils ball - billy cobb

63. pumpkinhead - misfits

64. werewolfe - scary bitches

65. i was a teenage werewolf - the cramps

66. werewolves of london - warren zevon

67. that time of the month - harley poe

68. werewolf in a girl's dormitory - blood sucking zombies from outer space

69. wolf girl - groovie ghoulies

70. howl for me - rotten reputation

71. an italian werewolf in st. louis - ludo

72. werewolf - southern culture on the skids

73. werewolf, baby! - rob zombie

74 there's a licanthrope on the bus - scary bitches

75. skeletons on parade - ludo

76. grave diggers - the creepshow

77. gallows & graves - nekrogoblikon

78. creepy crawler - zombie girl

79. human fly - the cramps

80. crawlers - blood sucking zombies from outer space

81. a feast for the worms - creature feature

82. scarecrow man - misfits

83. dragons - nekrogoblikon

84. vampire reference in a minor key - will wood

85. dracula has risen from the grave - the coffinshakers

86. dracula blood - zombina and the skeletones

87. vampires will never hurt you - my chemical romance

88. VLEGH! - rotten reputation

89. vampire's night out - harley poe

90. lesbian vampyres from outer space - scary bitches

91. baby you're a haunted house - gerard way

92. haunted - creature feature

93. what's under my bed - horrorpops

94. ouija - harley poe

95. crimson ghost - misfits

96. becoming a ghost - groovie ghoules

97. ghost - rotten reputation

98. the ghost of you - my chemical romance

99. i can make you a man - from the rocky horror picture show

100. somebody super like you - from phantom of the paradise

101. how to make a monster - zombina and the skeletones

102. i'm only the frankenstein monster - billy cobb

103. bride of frankenstein - blood sucking zombies from outer space

104. skankenstein - rotten reputation

105. the lizard king - groovie ghoulies

106. cyborgs vs robots - ludo

107. eyeball in my martini - the cramps

108. the crawling eye - misfits

109. ape man - zombina and the skeletones

110. the king kong stomp - groovie ghoules

111. kong at the gates - misfits

112. it was a dark and stormy night - creature feature

113. nobody likes you (when you're dead) - zombina and the skeletones

114. a gorey demise - creature feature

115. the horror of our love - ludo

116. creatures of the night - the creepshow

117. trick or treat - fastway

118. trick or treat - nekromantix

119. trick or treat - groovie ghoules

120. no costume, no candy - the swingin' neckbreakers

121. spirit halloween theme song - nick lutsko

122. halloween - misfits

123. halloween (she's so mean) - rob zombie

124. halloween '09 - zombie girl

125. this night on halloween - bloodsucking zombies from outer space

126. every day is halloween - creature feature

127. halloween II - billy cobb

128. halloween theme song - john carpenter

129. monster mash - misfits

you can listen to the playlist here!

[aquilathefighter]

URL song tag game

thanks for the tag @historyandqueershenanigans!!!

time to expose you all to my... eclectic tastes once again :D

Adeline - Fever Dolls

Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums - The Mountain Goats

Undercut SZN - Blue Foster

I Can Hear Music - The Beach Boys

Lake Pontchartrain - Ludo

Alone in Paradise - The Zombies

Take it From Me, Michael Jordan - Sledding With Tigers

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Edmund Welles

Edith From the Third Floor - Austin Weber

FDR - Cheap Haircuts

I Miss You - Blink-182 (legally obligated to use this one XD)

(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash

Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers

Take Care of All of My Children - Tom Waits

Ebb and Flow - Larry and His Flask

Restless Brain Syndrome - Dana Skully and the Tiger Sharks

tagging @mathomhouse-e @the-cloudy-dreamer @ghostboyjules and anyone else who wants to play!

[whitepolaris]

Pontchartrain Beach

If you take Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans all the way north from Marigny up to the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, you end up at an unexplained site: an abandoned mid-nineteenth century lighthouse that seems too far inland to be doing anyone in a boat any good at all. Beyond it is a wide expanse of grass, and then a seawall with a forbiddingly high gate. If someone can give you a boost to take a peek over the seawall, you'll see another expanse of a grass, a few palm trees, and then finally, the lake itself. It's hard to believe it now, but not so long ago this emptiness contained the "Coney Island of Louisiana," Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park.

Pontchartrain Beach opened in 1928 at Zephyr Park, next to the Old Spanish Fort amusement area on the west side of Bayou St. John, but moved to the end of Elysian Fields Avenue in the early 1930s. Before that, the abandoned lighthouse had marked the entrance to a small harbor in a fishing community called Milneburg, which had been built out into the lake on stilts. Milneburg had the distinction of being the terminus of the nation's second-oldest railroad line and the home of the world's first real train station. Smoky Mary, the black-cloud-belching locomotive that first serviced it, was a weak that the departure schedules were determined by the wind direction and sails were often raised to help move it along. Even so, the trains along Elysian Fields until 1935.

By then, the Huey Long administration had ordered the Milneburg harbor filled in and the stilt houses removed-hence the wide expanse of grass. In the era of segregation, Pontchartrain Beach was for "Whites Only," while a few miles along the lake to the east, Lincoln Beach was built some years later for "Colored" residents of the city. When both amusement parks were integrated in the early 1960s, Lincoln Beach closed. Pontchartrain Beach closed in 1983, when the amusement-seeking public was drawn toward the newer, flashier attractions being built for the New Orleans World's Fair in 1984.

Four more than a half a century Pontchartrain Beach had been one of the most popular sources of entertainment in the state. Its signature ride, the Zephyr, was among the largest wooden coasters in the South, while other rides included the Zephyr Junior, Smoky Mary, the Bug, the Ragin' Cajun, the Calypso, a haunted house, Ghost Train, Laff in the Dark, and The Monster. Bumper Cars, Ferris wheels, concession stands-it's hard to look at the emptiness of the site now and visualize all it once was. "The Beach" held live concerts with national acts like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as special areas for dolphin, magic, and high-diving shows and a petting zoo.

If the site where all this took place seems too empty and depressing, you can see a few bits and pieces of the rides at, strangely enough, the Veterans Memorial Park in Kenner, next to Louis Armstrong Airport on William Boulevard between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets. Here are you can find the top of the wooden-trussed "lift hill" from the Zephyr (the first big climb that really gets a roller coaster rolling), a handful of tiki gods recused from the former Bali Hai restaurant (one of the famous eateries at the old amusement park), part of the petting zoo, and some of the abandoned signs-they've all been saved and re-erected as a homage to a time before video and air-conditioning made popular entertainment a solitary, indoor endeavor.

Pontchartrain Beach Memories

Pontchartrain Beach always had a slightly frightening air about it that made it exciting. The Rotor was a centrifuge ride in which people would stick to the walls when the floor dropped out. There were scary clown faces everywhere and creepy-looking "painted children" you had to stand next to, to see if you were tall enough to ride. And there were talking garbage cans with lion and clown faces that would suck trash into their dark round mouths with amazing vacuum force while demanding, "Feed me trash!"

But the most exciting and terrifying part of Pontchartrain Beach was the Zephyr, a wooden roller coaster that got noticeably ricketier with each passing year. An archway over the top of the tall hill had a blinking red light and a sign that said, "DANGER: 20,000 VOLTS. This left a big impression on us as we clanked up the hill to that first drop. Despite that and other warnings, legend had it that someone riding in a front car had once stood up and grabbed the arch, then tried to drop back down into the rear cars but fell to his doom. Past the peak, as gravity took hold of the cars, the ride was incredibly rough and noisy and dark. Totally out of control. The park eventually added tunnels that seemed about to decapitate you as you whipped into them. It was the best roller coaster ever.

One day in the late 1980s, after the park was torn down, I was riding through Kenner with a friend when I noticed something interesting a short distance from the road. We stopped to investigate and discovered a park filled with pieces from the demolished Pontchartrain Beach park. There was one of the hideous YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE children, a car from the Zephyr, and, most wondrously, the top of the tallest peak of the Zephyr! There it was on the ground within touching distance-the wooden trusses, the Zephyr, the arch with the red lights, and the DANGER sign-all things that still live in my mind in the dark and the sky. -Karen

[nolahistoryguy]

Pontchartrain Beach 1974

“At the Beach, at the beach, at the Pontchartrain Beach…” Pontchartrain Beach in 1974 “Fresh family fun… New ride sensation! Shoot the rapids… LOG RIDE” Ad for Pontchartrain Beach in the Times-Picayune, 4-June-1974. Da Beach, Lakeshore Drive and Elysian Fields, in the old Milneburg neighborhood. By June, schools were closed across the metro area. So, Da Beach was open daily, 12 Noon on weekends,…

[mxtomituck]

Lake Pontchartrain, featuring one of the longest bridges over water in the world, used to have a public beach where you could go an swim and sunbathe.

:)

Guess why Lake Pontchartrain doesn’t have a public beach anymore

:)

[oskarlevant]

1963. King Kong vs Godzilla at the Saenger Theatre ,and a Pontchartrain Beach billboard on the roof

[stone-cold-groove]

Something that means something, but only to me.

[thatbanditqueen]

Terror at Pontchartrain Beach

Chapter 2: The Last Virgin in New Orleans

Summary:

Hortense has had a hard night, and now Joan and her new friend Elvis make it harder. So she decides to get away from them, the police, her family, and find anything she can to distract herself from the horrors of the night and her memory finding the body of Martha Gayle, stabbed to death, in one of the back alleys of Pontchartrain Beach.

The trouble is, this Elvis guy won't leave her alone.

WC: 6,477

Warnings: More minor gore

This one got away from me. Now its 2 am and I have to work tomorrow... oy. No proofreading, sloppy writing, blah blah blah.

Happy Elvis-o-Ween my friends......

let me know if you want to be tagged or untagged for ch 3....

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@ab4eva

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@sillybookmarks

@presleygarden

@everythingelvispresley

@artlover8992

@lialocklear

@moonchild-daniella

@dkayfixates

@elvispresleyslut

@eapep

[sanguisxferox]

~ A Lake Pontchartrain's beach somewhere in Lakeview

The night had been long―too long for his body. He’d spent the last 48 hours working without taking much of a break. He knows it’s bad for his health, but sometimes, he needs to stop thinking about what he lost and focus on what he has and work is the only way for him to do so. He knows Lake Pontchartrain is unofficially Lotus Eaters territory, but his presence has never bothered anyone. He’s just more careful, but it doesn’t stop him. The only territories he avoids belong to the Deathrunners and the Nameless.

He shakes his head to clear his mind before he removes his shoes and socks; rolling up his pants under his knees. Then he removes his blazer, revealing short sleeves buttoned up shirt that expose his tattooed arms―they go from his shoulders to about half of his forearms on both side. He puts his tailored jacket over his arm and holds his shoes carefully as he moves to that the water hits his ankles as he walks. What he doesn’t realize is that his fountain pen drops on the sand soundlessly.

@lieslauroraschneider

[mudwerks]

Pontchartrain Beach, New Orleans — 1962

KEEP OFF MY FACE!

[ablackchicnolalife]

Lincoln Beach On this day in New Orleans May 25, 1939 and May 25, 2021

Lincoln Beach On this day in New Orleans May 25, 1939 and May 25, 2021

As a little girl, I would hear all the fantastic stories about “Lincoln Beach and Jazzland to the point I made them my own. If you had asked me some years if I remember Lincoln Beach, I would have said yes and told a story so convincing that I believe it myself. My family celebrated just about anything at the lakefront when I was younger, and it was during those times, I heard the stories of…

[flashlighttostreetlight]

Lincoln Beach, New Orleans, LA was located along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain near Little Woods, a portion of land that was little developed in the 1930s. The land where Lincoln Beach was located was deeded to the city by Sam Zemurray in 1938 and purchased within a year by the Orleans Levee Board. The Levee Board first designated this section as a swimming area in the lake for "colored" New Orleanians, then built out additional land in the lake for the amusement park to be built on. The park was similar to the then "whites only" Pontchartrain Beach amusement park, only on a smaller scale. It featured various rides, games, restaurants, a swimming pool in addition to lake swimming, and frequent live music performances.