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If you surf social media enough, you may have seen a post about Pleasure Pier in Galveston being bought by Six Flags, with expansion plans to triple in size. Pleasure Pier has quashed that rumor ...
The Pleasure Pier sat at the end of Peoples Street in downtown Corpus Christi from 1922 until 1939, when it was removed to make way for the seawall.
The construction of the Boardwalk’s Pleasure Pier coincided with construction of the first beach Casino in 1904. The 150-foot structure was illuminated by electric lights and initially called ...
The Pier won, I had lost, but I was ready to embrace the loss with gusto. Some might call it the rapture of the depths, but I prefer to think of it as the Pleasure (Pier) Principle.
You can’t go wrong with Pleasure Pier’s one rollercoaster. It look far more intimidating than it actually is, especially with the first drop that is completely vertical after a small ...
Construction is under way. After its scheduled late-May opening, the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier will jut out 1,000 feet over the surf at 25th Street, where the original Pleasure Pier ...
Originally built in the late 1940s, Galveston’s Pleasure Pier was one of the largest of its kind in the country. Hurricane Carla changed the look of the old Pier in 1961.
The $60-million Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier plans to open in May with 16 rides, including a vertical-lift steel coaster, a 100-foot-tall Ferris wheel with programmable LED lights and a ...