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<p>[QUOTE="midas1, post: 1226655, member: 21309"]I'm confused. Are you writing the bay bridge is the rte 50 bridge you are referring to or are you referring to another bridge? I have not heard the bay bridge referred as the rte 50 bridge. Wasn't there another bridge on rte 50 before entering OC?</p><p>Maybe I'm thinking of a bridge on the way to my grandfather's house on Cobb Island on the river between Virginia and Maryland. When I was 7 - 12 years old I would spend most of the summer there. I remember after it got dark I would look across the river at a lighted amusement park on the Virginia side and wonder what is was like to ride that big ferris wheel.</p><p>It was cool the entire park was lighted. I think it was called Colonial beach, Va.</p><p><br /></p><p>" . . . We used to build "dummies" out of sand and cover them with beach blankets just to make the cops walk a few hundred yards through the soft sand. . . "</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny stunt. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did something similar in the city and it almost caused a serious car wreck. the car driver and my mother were not amused. Thinking about it some that was in the fifties not the sixties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="midas1, post: 1226655, member: 21309"]I'm confused. Are you writing the bay bridge is the rte 50 bridge you are referring to or are you referring to another bridge? I have not heard the bay bridge referred as the rte 50 bridge. Wasn't there another bridge on rte 50 before entering OC? Maybe I'm thinking of a bridge on the way to my grandfather's house on Cobb Island on the river between Virginia and Maryland. When I was 7 - 12 years old I would spend most of the summer there. I remember after it got dark I would look across the river at a lighted amusement park on the Virginia side and wonder what is was like to ride that big ferris wheel. It was cool the entire park was lighted. I think it was called Colonial beach, Va. " . . . We used to build "dummies" out of sand and cover them with beach blankets just to make the cops walk a few hundred yards through the soft sand. . . " Funny stunt. I did something similar in the city and it almost caused a serious car wreck. the car driver and my mother were not amused. Thinking about it some that was in the fifties not the sixties.[/QUOTE]
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