Orchard Beach Amusements

For my GOLD STAR:

These are photos I took in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.  The pier arcade is one of their staple tourist features.  While there I read varying accounts of fires and storms that destroyed the pier and how it was built back to different lengths.  The current pier is about 500 ft shorter than the longest pier built.  Below is a photo of an on-the-beach amusement park.  We visited here between their two main tourist seasons (summer and full-on fall...for the fall foliage tourists.)  The town was pretty empty and the pier and amusement park were not open.  Nothing is eerier than a space where one would expect crowds of people but is devoid in that respect.  Noir in its own right I suppose.  These were taken with a black and white disposable camera, and perhaps is in keeping with the whole noir theme.