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Pleasure land, Oakland NJ
So out in Oakland is this long abandoned place called Pleasure land.
Yeah, sweet name.
Its a relic from the sixties and seventies, and used to be a big swimming park
kinda place.
Rumor has it that it was originally abandoned after a pair of Rastafarian gangs
had an beef with each other resulting in... well Bon Scott puts it best with
"bullets started flyin everywhere, people started to screeeeem! Big man lying on
the ground, with a hole in his body where his life had been"
So, there it sits. At the end of a short, wooded road that was recently paved
and had a bunch of barricades and boulders dragged across the path.
The place is literally COVERED in graffiti, some interesting, some... dumb.
It was also one of the easiest finds we ever had. Right off a pretty busy road
in Oakland NJ, we must have driven past it a... dozen times going around there
before the 'oh yeah something's back there' reaction occurred.
Its nice, and most certainly worth the trip.
Personally Visited: Yes
Trespassing Signs: Yes
Patrolled: No
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