But, more importantly, time for some photographs! How about starting with another visit to the beach?
From various archives-- see source links.
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| State Library and Archives of Florida |
Kids playing on the beach, Sarasota, Florida, 1953.
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| National Library of New Zealand |
People doing their best with a silver of beach, Oriental Bay, Wellington, NZ, c. 1930s.
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| State Library and Archives of Florida |
A woman on Palm Beach, Florida, 1896.
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| State Library and Archives of Florida |
African-American children on the beach with a dog, Apalachicola, Florida, c. 1895.
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| Nantucket Historical Association |
A family at Jetties Beach, Nantucket, Kentucky, 1906.
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| LIFE archives © Time Inc. |
A group of children-- Charles Dickens' grandchildren, incidentally-- on the beach with nets. The date given is 1949 but I'm going with no, that's not the date of the photo (perhaps it's the year the story ran, instead?).
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| Ralph Crane, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A couple cuddling in a hole on the beach, Santa Monica, 1950.
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| Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Actor Russ Tamblyn (Riff in West Side Story) doing a random flip on the beach, California, 1955.
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| Loomis Dean, LIFE © Time Inc. |
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| State Library of Queensland |
A beach tug of war in Southport, Queensland, 1917.
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| Swedish National Heritage Board |
People on the beach in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, c. 1872.
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| University of Washington Libraries |
A car driving past a shipwreck on a beach, Washington (State), 1923.
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| Library of Congress |
A photochrom of the beach in Ostend, Belgium, c. 1890s.
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| Lisa Larsen, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Girls playing on Atlantic Beach, Florida, 1954.
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| Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A good old-fashioned watermelon beach party, San Diego, 1948.
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| Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Publicity man Russell Birdwell in his own publicity shot, California, c. 1938.
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