subject: Memorial Day Opening For Pleasure Pier [print this page] The Galveston Pleasure Pier is a $60 million dollar venture by Landry's Inc. owner Tilman Fertita. With designs to open up the pier on Memorial Day, May 28th, Fertita hopes the pier may take on Coney Island's Luna Park, Chicago's Navy Pier, and the Santa Monica Pier. The 1,200 foot pier is proudly located on 25th and Seawall at the previous site of Flagship Hotel that was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008. The pier will have 16 rides and is going to include the tallest ride in Texas. Of the 16 rides offered several of the noteworthy highlights consist of a 200 foot tall swing structure (the tallest in Texas), a 100 foot high Ferris wheel with programmable LED lights, a 100 foot vertical lift steel coaster, and an array of rides which will head out over the Gulf of Mexico.
The Galveston Pleasure Pier is being revived for the 3 rd occasion during the gulf region city's history. The earliest version was initially at the base connected with the present-day pier and had been branded the Electric Park. The Electric Park was advertised as "The Coney Island of the South" and was opened in 1906. The park was available for 9 years prior to getting ruined from the 1915 Galveston hurricane.
The next version of the park began as a leisure pier for armed service families throughout World War II. At the finish of World War II it had been turned over to the city whom then established the pleasure pier. The pier was filled up with midway games, an aquarium tank, amusement rides, and an arcade. This second adaptation of the Galveston Pleasure Pier held up nearly 20 years just before being weakened significantly by Hurricane Carla in 1961. In relation to the real danger of a hurricane eliminating the third release of the park Fertita expresses, "That's why you pay high insurance premiums"
The Galveston Pleasure Pier should be open 270 days a year identical to the Kemah Boardwalk routine. Landry's Inc. estimates that the entertainment pier will have 3 million visitors regularly. The pier will place a retail center called Shops at Pleasure Pier along with the state's first Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant. A auto parking lot is going to be located towards the west of Fish Tales, a Landry's managed restaurant. The Historic Galveston Pleasure Pier will charm various age types and joy searchers equally.
