An amusement park was there, a big attraction in its day called Steeplechase Island or Pleasure Beach & ran at least 60 years. I vaguely remember it as a very young child. It closed in the early 60's, a victim of neighboring urban decay & an influx of city dwellers that the locals looked upon as undesirables. No longer accessible by car as the only bridge to the "island" burned in the 90's. It's a peninsula & can be walked from Long Beach in Stratford. Only WICC's xmitting facilities remain.
im happy to see so many positive comments, i wanted to become a bpt historian but its kind of hard when people treat us second rate. This city is an old work horse and i cantwstand watching her die around me...
This is so sad but so true .. I live in Bridgeport, CT right now.. Born and raised. This is exactly what I think of it now.. It was different even when I was growing up.. Now it's a real mess.
I have lived in Norwalk, Ct all my life and to look back at the way Bridgeport and Norwalk and Stamford were and to look at them now is just disgusting. Norwalk alone had like 5 factories to build stuff from train parts to locks and tires and now there are no jobs they are shipping them all out to other countries. It is sad to see the beauty that was Connecticut and to look at it now.
Thanks for the memories....Seaside Park has not changed all that much going east of the main bathhouse. The rest of Seaside Park and the city have changed. Two of my videos here show Seaside Park while riding in a car.
It is so sad that the Great towns and cities in the USA that were once great have all declined. It all started when we closed Ellis Island and opened our borders for anyone to enter and then supported them so they didn't have to work but took free handouts. I do not mind helping but living on welfare and in section 8 housing for life and not working for anything is what ruined this country. They brought their same filthy habits here that they had in their own countries. Sad..
One side of my family immigrated from Germany to NYC starting in 1883. They then moved from there to Bridgeport in the mid-1890's, had a few children (one died as an infant and is buried in Park Street Cemetery), and then moved on to other places. Thank you for this - what a great little piece of film...
great video, but...brigeport is a hell hole. Last night, even Family Guy ripped on the city. The mafia and corruption ended this city, you have them to blame.
I know what's ghetto... The blacks of Bridgeport, destroyed everything it looks like an African dump now. They look like fools sagging their pants and talking ebonics. Bridgeport was beautiful now it's baby momma 2 cent welfare mooching ape polluted.
Thanks for the memories; I grew up there, born in 1952. Left in 1970 and haven't been back. I was looking at Google world map, what happened to Colorado Ave. between State St. and the railroad tracks? I lived in a multi story/building and went to school at St Anthony’s and now there gone!
thank you sockhop921, for those beautiful photos of bridgeport,I was born and raised in bpt, I have memories that will be w/ me forever, thank you for the awesome photos.
I was born and raised in Bridgeport, St V's Hospital, North Av. I moved to San Jose in 79. I enjoyed this video effort very much. I visit on average twice a year. It is said to see this constant decline. I only hope that Bpt will slowly return. Until the welfare state ends that we have become, and people actually work or starve, not until then will Bpt return.
very good job but its kind of sad watching this because it makes you think what would it be like to live in the old time when Bridgeport was kind of newer and better.
Amazing Bro......Just amazing. I appreciate each photo past and present. And I appreciate your time and effort on making this short video...Bravo man.
Amazing Bro......Just amazing. I appreciate each photo past and present. And I appreciate your time and effort on making this short video...Bravo man.
Born and raised in Bpt, till the age of 35, then moved to Ft. Lauderdale, and 15 years later, yes, I still miss my Bpt, my family and my friends. But I love the sun more!
bridgeport is honestly not bad, I have lived in the state since the day I was born and have made friends in bridgeport while i've been here. everyone is raving about how the east side is the worst part of bridgeport, this happens to be where I usually hang out with my friends, after visiting there appartment countless times the only fight i've ever seen was a small fight between two girls in front of subway, and the city is a little bit dirty but hey, its a fucking city
@TouchMulaGANG were they getting involved in shit they shouldnt have been involved with? not sayin they were, but thats what i believe is the lead cause of murder, and a kid was murdered in greenfield hill fairfield because he got caught up with the wrong shit, just gotta be smart
Thanks for posting this great video. It's too bad all of these ignorant Tea Party Wall Street Westport Trust fund racists have to post these horrible comments about Bridgeport's current status. That's OK. That's Joe Lieberman's people! We understand.
Great video! I've got some 16mm film that belonged to my great grandfather Edwin Moss who was a builder in Bridgeport for many years. One film is some of the projects he worked on in Bport and the other is of the 1955 Barnum Festival parade. I contacted folks and the museum and the festival but no one has responded. I'm going to post the 1955 parade to my page.
LMAO im srry this is rlly nice work but like seriously these pictures make someone that doesnt live here think its all nice n wonderful if u sit in washington park now just know u getting yourself in some trouble o_0
sockhop921--.Thank you, I am now in California, and seeing this made me feel back home in Connecticut. Thanks .First of all, I must say the rich history of Bridgeport -- amazing. Just amazing. Now, Bridgeport needs corporate America, to create amazing opportunities so close to NY.. As for gangs, violence, don't come to California , you will cry. The best about Bridgeport, the core, is both the Catholic and Jewish communities. It is New England. And I for one, miss that , Bridgeport can be better
When you fill up a city with people who live off the state and section 8,the city becomes a dumping ground for high crime,gangs,drug dealers and corrupt politicians.Bridgeport will never rise from the ashes.People living in Bridgeport vote in the same people who is destroying it.Also the people living in the city have no respect for people who are trying to make it.But the white parts of Bridgeport do look cleaner and nicer.
Great job! You've proven that we haven't irrevocably lost our city after all. Some of the comments above probably relate to the 1980s when things were at their grimmest. If you're really a Bridgeporter, you have to maintain hope. What a great town we grew up in!
that place is still there @ 1:09. downtown bridgeport SUCKSSSSS. i grew up in bridgeport n icant wait to leave cuz there is NOTHING HEREEEEEEEEE.excpet 4 tha arena.
Great contrast! Bridgeport has such a rich history. It is too bad that things have gone downhill. I lived there since the 70s, and my grandparents since the 50s. I've watched the nicer neighborhoods deteriorate over the years, and it is sad.
as i can see Bridgeport use to look very beautiful
now its too disgusting, garbage every wear in the streets peoples steal cars a corner stores drugs every where. i see Bridgeport as a hood, the ghetto. I'm glad i moved to westport its better.
all of Bridgeport isn't like that. so please do not go there stereotyping all of Bridgeport as the "ghetto" Wesport has its parts that can be classified as the ghetto its self. Maybe if Bridgeport had some type of good schooling maybe all these teens would stop stealing your damn cars. but right now as it is over crowded no body wants to go to school or there getting kicked out because it is over crowded. Bridgeport is not the ghetto!.It just happens that our mayor doesn't give a SHIT TO FIX IT!
For ILLRELLIK, the video was made to simply show how things have changed over the yrs, not to make things look bad. If thats how it affected you then things must really be bad. Having lived in Bridgeport for nearly all my life and worked at WICC for nearly 15 yrs in downtown Bridgeport I have to strongly disagree about your "it's getting better". Even in broad daylight on workdays you took your life in your hands just walking from Main & Fairfield to Robertos. My opinon, not the video's message.
i agree on the reason for making the video but your opinion on putting your life in your in own hands by walking from main & fairfield to roberto's is really ridiculous.sorry thats just my opinion, try walking toward the east side of bpt or the west end, better yet take a drive into bpt. if you do that i'm sure your opinion will change.
are city used to be great now you cant walk down connecticut ave,,i missed the way it used to be the people destroyed are city and made it a shit hole
yes, this video made me home sick too!!! Proudly from Bridgeport now living in Laguna Beach, CA. I've never fogotten where I came from... GREAT WORK!!
Class of 1958, now living in Florida since 1970. I spent a lot of time in Bridgeport, you brought back some great memories to me, and great choice of your music, I might add.
Thanks again, good job. By the way Milford High School no longer a school, I loved playing baseball vs. Harding @ Beardsley and Bassic @ Seaside, those were some good days.
Very, very nicely done. Loved the musical selection too! Only one minor error--the bank building shown at the 1:05 mark is actually the old Mechanics & Farmers building at 930 Main Street, not the present Roberto's Restaurant diagonally opposite.
An amusement park was there, a big attraction in its day called Steeplechase Island or Pleasure Beach & ran at least 60 years. I vaguely remember it as a very young child. It closed in the early 60's, a victim of neighboring urban decay & an influx of city dwellers that the locals looked upon as undesirables. No longer accessible by car as the only bridge to the "island" burned in the 90's. It's a peninsula & can be walked from Long Beach in Stratford. Only WICC's xmitting facilities remain.
sockhop921 1 week ago
Wait so did Bridgeport used to have an amusement park or was that just a small boardwalk with a ferris wheel?
PineapplesRcrunchy 1 week ago
@wrrn411 its dead stratford bulldozed all of the remaining buildings off of it, buildings that were not on their property
dreadfulcreation 1 month ago
im happy to see so many positive comments, i wanted to become a bpt historian but its kind of hard when people treat us second rate. This city is an old work horse and i cantwstand watching her die around me...
dreadfulcreation 1 month ago
This is so sad but so true .. I live in Bridgeport, CT right now.. Born and raised. This is exactly what I think of it now.. It was different even when I was growing up.. Now it's a real mess.
LegendaryBerry 2 months ago
I have lived in Norwalk, Ct all my life and to look back at the way Bridgeport and Norwalk and Stamford were and to look at them now is just disgusting. Norwalk alone had like 5 factories to build stuff from train parts to locks and tires and now there are no jobs they are shipping them all out to other countries. It is sad to see the beauty that was Connecticut and to look at it now.
Chevymonster203 3 months ago
Thank you for sharing this video. Would like to know more about Pleasure Island do you have any videos or information?
wrrn411 7 months ago
Bridgeport looks like it once a nice place to live but not anymore. Depressing video.
TudorRose85 7 months ago
Thanks for the memories....Seaside Park has not changed all that much going east of the main bathhouse. The rest of Seaside Park and the city have changed. Two of my videos here show Seaside Park while riding in a car.
DrinkingStar 7 months ago
Family Guy brought me here
cleanhomer 8 months ago
very nice
freshwoner 10 months ago
THE CITY WAS SO NICE ITS SUCH A SHAME
bxfinestladiie 1 year ago
It is so sad that the Great towns and cities in the USA that were once great have all declined. It all started when we closed Ellis Island and opened our borders for anyone to enter and then supported them so they didn't have to work but took free handouts. I do not mind helping but living on welfare and in section 8 housing for life and not working for anything is what ruined this country. They brought their same filthy habits here that they had in their own countries. Sad..
fillipper 1 year ago
One side of my family immigrated from Germany to NYC starting in 1883. They then moved from there to Bridgeport in the mid-1890's, had a few children (one died as an infant and is buried in Park Street Cemetery), and then moved on to other places. Thank you for this - what a great little piece of film...
beeroosterm 1 year ago 2
I honestly dont know what family guy is talking about...I've never been to Bridgeport but it looks upscale compared to Vancouvers DTES
VillianyCricket 1 year ago
great video, but...brigeport is a hell hole. Last night, even Family Guy ripped on the city. The mafia and corruption ended this city, you have them to blame.
McLovin2169 1 year ago
You did a great job making that - I appreciate it, thanks for taking the time and effort to make it
domainjester 1 year ago
I know what's ghetto... The blacks of Bridgeport, destroyed everything it looks like an African dump now. They look like fools sagging their pants and talking ebonics. Bridgeport was beautiful now it's baby momma 2 cent welfare mooching ape polluted.
renee154109 1 year ago
@renee154109 HOW COULD YOU BLAME THE DOWN FALL ON ONE GROUP?? BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELECTED IN TO POWER LIKE THE POLITICANS!
bxfinestladiie 1 year ago
man fuck all these old ass white folk on here BPT gets shit poppin fuck what you heard go down to east main street and say shit aint ghetto
TouchMulaGANG 1 year ago
@TouchMulaGANG fucc dese niggas cuh actn like ay run da place
snoop2528 1 year ago
Thanks for the memories; I grew up there, born in 1952. Left in 1970 and haven't been back. I was looking at Google world map, what happened to Colorado Ave. between State St. and the railroad tracks? I lived in a multi story/building and went to school at St Anthony’s and now there gone!
wjwncproii 1 year ago
alguem ai pode me dizer qual a diferença do horario dai para o daqui do Brasil por favor vou ficar muito agradecida obrigado !!!!!!!
MegaDreka 1 year ago
Well done!
leonardodalongisland 1 year ago
Ahh! This makes me want to cry. Very beautiful video. Thank you. :-)
Upritebass 1 year ago
@Upritebass too bad itss not like that...
12blahbaby 1 year ago
thank you sockhop921, for those beautiful photos of bridgeport,I was born and raised in bpt, I have memories that will be w/ me forever, thank you for the awesome photos.
MrTheone44 1 year ago
Thanks for your hard work. Truly enjoyed looking at the park city.
gcole06614 1 year ago
I was born and raised in Bridgeport, St V's Hospital, North Av. I moved to San Jose in 79. I enjoyed this video effort very much. I visit on average twice a year. It is said to see this constant decline. I only hope that Bpt will slowly return. Until the welfare state ends that we have become, and people actually work or starve, not until then will Bpt return.
paulsalerno 1 year ago
Those were the days...
EsotericMotion 1 year ago
very good job but its kind of sad watching this because it makes you think what would it be like to live in the old time when Bridgeport was kind of newer and better.
thefatskateboarder 2 years ago
Excellent job!
GiftsByTheGreen 2 years ago
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Amazing Bro......Just amazing. I appreciate each photo past and present. And I appreciate your time and effort on making this short video...Bravo man.
giftedpro1 2 years ago
Amazing Bro......Just amazing. I appreciate each photo past and present. And I appreciate your time and effort on making this short video...Bravo man.
giftedpro1 2 years ago
I worked in Bridgeport and have found memories of the people there.. Im from Oz
guslingus 2 years ago
bpt was soooo pretty back in the day.... now jst ghetto n full of trash.... n crack heads n bumz and DRAMA.....
StRaWBeRrYBiiTcH 2 years ago
@StRaWBeRrYBiiTcH iknw right i cant stand it !
napman267 1 year ago
Born and raised in Bpt, till the age of 35, then moved to Ft. Lauderdale, and 15 years later, yes, I still miss my Bpt, my family and my friends. But I love the sun more!
santa4unme 2 years ago 2
bridgeport is honestly not bad, I have lived in the state since the day I was born and have made friends in bridgeport while i've been here. everyone is raving about how the east side is the worst part of bridgeport, this happens to be where I usually hang out with my friends, after visiting there appartment countless times the only fight i've ever seen was a small fight between two girls in front of subway, and the city is a little bit dirty but hey, its a fucking city
RLhockey203 2 years ago 6
@RLhockey203 wtfff you not here all the timee shessh and i live on the eastsideee! its not where you wanna be all the timee.
12blahbaby 1 year ago
@12blahbaby please, i lived in south side chicago for a few monthes, it makes the hollow look like manhattan
RLhockey203 1 year ago
@RLhockey203 heyyyyyy ! wtf does that mean? good / bad?>>>native nyc girl
saintmj57 9 months ago
@RLhockey203 then why have i had multiple friends murdered in the city? smhh
TouchMulaGANG 1 year ago
@TouchMulaGANG were they getting involved in shit they shouldnt have been involved with? not sayin they were, but thats what i believe is the lead cause of murder, and a kid was murdered in greenfield hill fairfield because he got caught up with the wrong shit, just gotta be smart
RLhockey203 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this great video. It's too bad all of these ignorant Tea Party Wall Street Westport Trust fund racists have to post these horrible comments about Bridgeport's current status. That's OK. That's Joe Lieberman's people! We understand.
billybillyband 2 years ago 2
@billybillyband LMAO NICE ONE!
bxfinestladiie 1 year ago
Great video! I've got some 16mm film that belonged to my great grandfather Edwin Moss who was a builder in Bridgeport for many years. One film is some of the projects he worked on in Bport and the other is of the 1955 Barnum Festival parade. I contacted folks and the museum and the festival but no one has responded. I'm going to post the 1955 parade to my page.
chrisclarkvideos 2 years ago
wow bet this vid took some work . very good job . loved it
wheelhorsec85 2 years ago
Luv Bridgeport
jlover97 2 years ago
Connecticut need to investgate on ebt
cjphoto23 2 years ago
Electronic Bank Transfers???
sockhop921 2 years ago
@cjphoto23 everyone i know has ebt cards..if its food stamp cards your talking ct is abundent trust me
SYRUPnSPRITE 4 months ago
LMAO im srry this is rlly nice work but like seriously these pictures make someone that doesnt live here think its all nice n wonderful if u sit in washington park now just know u getting yourself in some trouble o_0
jayr44life 2 years ago
its not bad compared 2 how it was in the early 80's!!!!!
elisabeth851 2 years ago
thats a lie... you have to be a major punk ass...
elisabeth851 2 years ago
sockhop921--.Thank you, I am now in California, and seeing this made me feel back home in Connecticut. Thanks .First of all, I must say the rich history of Bridgeport -- amazing. Just amazing. Now, Bridgeport needs corporate America, to create amazing opportunities so close to NY.. As for gangs, violence, don't come to California , you will cry. The best about Bridgeport, the core, is both the Catholic and Jewish communities. It is New England. And I for one, miss that , Bridgeport can be better
Interview1998 2 years ago 3
Thanks for the compliments and thanks again for one of the more intelligent replies.
sockhop921 2 years ago
When you fill up a city with people who live off the state and section 8,the city becomes a dumping ground for high crime,gangs,drug dealers and corrupt politicians.Bridgeport will never rise from the ashes.People living in Bridgeport vote in the same people who is destroying it.Also the people living in the city have no respect for people who are trying to make it.But the white parts of Bridgeport do look cleaner and nicer.
ebony3921 2 years ago 2
If someone could translate this I'd appreciate it.
sockhop921 2 years ago
Great job! You've proven that we haven't irrevocably lost our city after all. Some of the comments above probably relate to the 1980s when things were at their grimmest. If you're really a Bridgeporter, you have to maintain hope. What a great town we grew up in!
newscorner 2 years ago 2
yeah and now with the new project in east main st and stratford ave coming soon
carlosjavierPR 2 years ago
the term is bridgepuertorican
Pepperoninipples69 2 years ago
Great one Mark !!!
Johnnyboy792 2 years ago
Is there anything about Barnum in that
building? I have many ancestors from
Bridgeport, we just didn't have time to go into
the city the last time I was on the east coast.
JettRink50 2 years ago
that place is still there @ 1:09. downtown bridgeport SUCKSSSSS. i grew up in bridgeport n icant wait to leave cuz there is NOTHING HEREEEEEEEEE.excpet 4 tha arena.
silvadolla07 2 years ago
Great contrast! Bridgeport has such a rich history. It is too bad that things have gone downhill. I lived there since the 70s, and my grandparents since the 50s. I've watched the nicer neighborhoods deteriorate over the years, and it is sad.
PeaceChannel711 3 years ago
as i can see Bridgeport use to look very beautiful
now its too disgusting, garbage every wear in the streets peoples steal cars a corner stores drugs every where. i see Bridgeport as a hood, the ghetto. I'm glad i moved to westport its better.
Preciosa787 3 years ago
all of Bridgeport isn't like that. so please do not go there stereotyping all of Bridgeport as the "ghetto" Wesport has its parts that can be classified as the ghetto its self. Maybe if Bridgeport had some type of good schooling maybe all these teens would stop stealing your damn cars. but right now as it is over crowded no body wants to go to school or there getting kicked out because it is over crowded. Bridgeport is not the ghetto!.It just happens that our mayor doesn't give a SHIT TO FIX IT!
silvadolla07 2 years ago 4
McLevy Hall is the only place that still looks good. fitting for a place named after a great mayor.
JunebugBpt08 3 years ago
Very nice, very interesting. Hope you like my two responses from my everchanging hometown.
rippleway123 3 years ago
For ILLRELLIK, the video was made to simply show how things have changed over the yrs, not to make things look bad. If thats how it affected you then things must really be bad. Having lived in Bridgeport for nearly all my life and worked at WICC for nearly 15 yrs in downtown Bridgeport I have to strongly disagree about your "it's getting better". Even in broad daylight on workdays you took your life in your hands just walking from Main & Fairfield to Robertos. My opinon, not the video's message.
sockhop921 3 years ago
i agree on the reason for making the video but your opinion on putting your life in your in own hands by walking from main & fairfield to roberto's is really ridiculous.sorry thats just my opinion, try walking toward the east side of bpt or the west end, better yet take a drive into bpt. if you do that i'm sure your opinion will change.
PUCHIANO 2 years ago
are city used to be great now you cant walk down connecticut ave,,i missed the way it used to be the people destroyed are city and made it a shit hole
yogie1976 3 years ago
this is the reason why people think bridgeport is so bad. i lived in bridgeport my entire life and it getting better now then in the 90's
ILLRELLIK 3 years ago
I enjoyed it very much. As with so much about
Bport, there is a touch of sadness in it. Your
music choice is quite good.
locke1958 3 years ago
Wow! I absolutely loved this video. I appreciate this work.
aeroboi8907 3 years ago
Loved it!! 5 Stars
BridgeportTV 3 years ago
yes, this video made me home sick too!!! Proudly from Bridgeport now living in Laguna Beach, CA. I've never fogotten where I came from... GREAT WORK!!
CarlosMendez003 3 years ago
Congratulation for this video.... just amazing
marcelo385 3 years ago
Great video, sockhop921. I was from Milford
Class of 1958, now living in Florida since 1970. I spent a lot of time in Bridgeport, you brought back some great memories to me, and great choice of your music, I might add.
Thanks again, good job. By the way Milford High School no longer a school, I loved playing baseball vs. Harding @ Beardsley and Bassic @ Seaside, those were some good days.
Elfweir 3 years ago
Some things still look beautiful
while other things not so much
good job:)
skyshany 3 years ago
I love this video. Made me homesick for a brief second.
luvinmynaps 3 years ago
I'm from Bridgeport born and raised, and I loved this video. So nice to see pictures of home! Wonderfully done.
WarriorInTheSpirit 3 years ago
Very, very nicely done. Loved the musical selection too! Only one minor error--the bank building shown at the 1:05 mark is actually the old Mechanics & Farmers building at 930 Main Street, not the present Roberto's Restaurant diagonally opposite.
popeyestomper 3 years ago