“We used to make mats, drinks and food to the bar beach, and there we had the best fun of our lives, building sandcastles and playing catch-me-if-you-can there.” Nigeria LagosBarBeach
It was also a place for picnickers to throng during public holidays, while birthdays celebrations for some were incomplete without a visit to the bar beach.
For the non-resident, especially every first-time visitor, a trip to Lagos without a visit to the bar beach was incomplete. There were no fun seekers and picnickers, no entertainers, food and drink vendors, neither were there assorted cars parked, or waiting to pick up picnickers. Indeed, the atmosphere was completely devoid of the razzmatazz of the bar beach, including the cocktail of white garment church members carrying out prayers in gymnastic fashion.
A security man at one of the gates informed The Guardian that the seawater has only been punched back, adding that sighting the Atlantic Ocean would only be possible if one makes it into the facility proper in the guise of seeing facilities available within the city under construction. “We used to make mats, drinks and food to the bar beach, and there we had the best fun of our lives, building sandcastles and playing catch-me-if-you-can there. Thanks to photographs, the memories would always linger. It is all gone now and a deep part of me feels hurt and sad because all we would ever have are just memories. It is now a city, it is now a long-gone history,” said Lagos State indigene.
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