Pleasure Island, Ct- Although locally referred to as an island, the site was actually a peninsula connected to the town of Stratford by beach and connected by a wooden bridge to the city of Bridgeport, then left abandoned after the bridge burned in 1996. When Nikul purchased the land from the State of Connecticut and the remaining land owners, it was mostly-abandoned vacation cottages in various states of disrepair, and the ruins of the older amusement park. The park was in operation from 1892 up until sometime in the early 1950s. Much of the attractions were gone, but the ferris wheel, an old