Ferry Slip Road – South Side

Ferry Slip Road – South Side

 

This is the Ferry Slip Road (circa 1944), the South Side approach to the ferry slip. In the early forties this road was put in especially for the ferry. There’s a story that, when they were working on this very marshy area, a bulldozer disappeared when it was sucked down into the quicksand. I don’t know if the story is true or not . . . but I hope it is! If you dig in the area and find it, let me know. You can see the small shack (at left) where folks could wait for the ferry in bad weather. On weekends in the summer months there was sometimes a long line of cars waiting for the ferry. The line would extend as far south as Randalia Road. Many resourceful kids (me included) would sell cold sodas and vegetables to people waiting in line for the ferry.