More on the Origins
This first time submission was received via Mutant Mail's high speed Morse telegrapher on August 24, 2006:
Summer 2006
The term Mutant
Beach comes from back in the late 60's early 70's when a bright orange sludge
oozed from the drain holes in the sides of the concrete slabs. Iif you
looked very closely you could see every color of the rainbow in the sludge (I
assume mine runoff). When I was a kid at Hobson Place, the art teacher would
take our class to the spillway and catch fish that we would dip in paint and
press onto paper. I've been a fisherman all my life and still cannot name some
of the species of fish that came out of there. So I assume that the sludge has
something to do with the fish mutations.
Another reason for the mutation is that the city would dump all the snow
(chemicals, garbage, road salt etc.) that they cleaned off the road during the
winter on whatever road that is going by the beach. Back in the day it was not
paved and no one used it in winter. I remember we would look for money and pop
bottles as the snow melted.
AWESOME SITE!!!!!! Brings back tons of memories.
Sam
Indiana, PA
[MBPS NOTE: As evidenced by the photograph above, the Beach still has that ooze].
©2006 MBPS
