Pleasant Hill Park and Beach - Linden Avenue at Delaware River - 1920

Bureau of City Property 1920:

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My dad used to use this beach as a kid. He would have been five at time of this photo. The beach was closed when we went there in the sixties for a half picnic of sorts after a Saturday ride to the hinterlands north along State Road. Back then there was an embankment about fifteen feet above the river level with a iron fence above a three foot or so brick wall. Also a closed and padlocked gate to the river where the beach used to be down a double staircase against the embankment wall. The bottom of these concrete stairs where missing and washed away about two thirds of the way down to the river.  In the sixties you could drive up on parkland and the park was under the canopy of old growth oak trees with lots of shade. A say half picnic, sandwiches in the car and sodas from a cooler. No barbequing allowed. My father's primary reason for a journey to this old park over the river was the shade of these big trees. Perfect place to Turtle Wax the old DeSoto.

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