Cocoa Beach approves rides for pier

I'm sorry, but this article made me laugh and laugh.
"There were kids screaming!"

I guess the reason I can laugh is I'm nowhere near this nightmare. I don't know what the scene in Cocoa is these days, but I picture oldsters in condos. And the shame is that seaside piers are at their best as evening/nighttime attractions. It sounds like they're trying to do their best to improve the pier, so good luck having to close at 8.

I've never really spent any time there. There's definitely a "boat people" party scene along the east side of Port Canaveral, but getting up to Cocoa Beach, toward the pier... I can't say I've ever thought, "Let's go there!" Seems like this would help with that.

In my 9 years living in Orlando I have been to Cocoa Beach twice. Once the first summer I was here to see what it was about and the other to meet relatives for lunch when they were on a cruise from Baltimore that had a day at Canaveral. Not that I am much of a beach person to begin with, but the Gulf Coast beaches (St. Pete, Treasure Island, Clearwater, etc) are leaps and bounds nicer. And on the Atlantic side, I am partial to New Smyrna.

I drove through the area on the way to a restaurant in Melbourne on a work trip a few years ago. The town of Cocoa Beach has kind of a gritty, dated feel to it. Lots of mid-century modern architecture and it looked like it was ready to star in a vacation episode of Mad Men. It reminded me a lot of Galveston, TX before it started to clean up and became a big cruise port. I think a pier park would fit in nicely.

bigboy said:

I drove through the area on the way to a restaurant in Melbourne on a work trip a few years ago. The town of Cocoa Beach has kind of a gritty, dated feel to it.

Probably just like the people who reside there.

Literally had to google where this place was and why I should care about it. My answers came up as "irrelevant" and "I shouldn't." My real question is how this made the news forum here. I've got a couple local news articles I can share about the carnivals that happen in my area, and they've got anywhere between 10 and fifteen rides each. And they don't close at 8 with no music, either.

Well when you build your own site and run it for 17 years, you're welcome to have your own standard for newsworthiness.

17 YEARS? Jeff's old. ;~)

Well that means we're old too since we've been hanging around here that long.

Whatever, Bill didn't even join until 2001!