Another awesome photo from the same beach…
Check out the kid doing the kung-fu/boxer move for the camera.
Plus, this one shows a woman with gasp bare legs…right side with her backside toward the camera.
Directly above bare-leg-girl’s right shoulder is a woman in a chair with her hands to her mouth in an obvious display of shock over the sudden exposure of unclad female legs in public.
About a third of the way from the left side is a woman in a bonnet looking straight at the camera with a pleasant smile.
I see a zombie lumbering towards the camera! :eek:
That’s the 1906 version of mooning. 
Is that a young Peter Falk front left?
Oh, One More Thing…It might be Tony Shalhoub.
The guy behind and to the right of Columbo has a surprisingly modern looking hair cut—looks shaved on the sides.
Pew! Pew-pew!
Siam Sam - I think it looks like Paul Michael Glaser (Starksy, from Starsky & Hutch.
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Did you see the one guy that’s practically wearing a Speedo? That was sort of shocking, given everyone else’s attire.
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I’m a bit disturbed that it’s the first thing I thought of too. (the second is that zombie kid looks like a teenage Haley Joel Osment) With a likewise sick mind like yours, I think you should join our 2nd horror movie game.
What struck me about the photo linked to in the OP is that if you replaced the turn-of-the-century beach garb with modern garments and set all those people down at the beach right now, the vast majority wouldn’t get a second look. Their appearance/hairstyles aren’t radically different from current ones (excepting stuff like the Harold Lloyd glasses the young guy is wearing).
What I found eerie was a group photo I saw on the wall in a restaurant recently. It was a wide-angle shot of a teachers union banquet in Chicago, circa 1948. I have never seen so many people apparently determined to give the appearance of not having any fun. Grim-faced schoolmarm types predominated. Apart from the air of no-monkey-business, it was also creepily reminiscent of those group shots on the wall of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.
Nowadays they’d be called ‘Harry Potter glasses’.
Notice how the “zombie’s” right arm blends perfectly into the leg of the guy walking behind him- it’s almost like an Escher drawing. Speaking of the guy behind him, it looks like he’s wearing a rug, plus I expect he’s already been advised two or three times that “You’ll feel more comfortable at Chicken Bone Beach… now!”
I wonder if you had to own swimwear or if you could rent it. It had to be relatively expensive for the time and something you’d rarely use in a time before closets were standard and one helluva pain to wash (all the sand) that I’m guessing there were rental shops.
I wonder how much a woman could show before the cops got involved. Or a man for that matter- could a guy go shirtless?
What’s up with the scowling mustachioed dude wearing a girly sunbonnet (arms crossed, near the center of the pic)?
In that photo, not only are there no fat people, but many people also seem really toned. Still a sausage-fest, though, and what’s the deal with the men strolling along the sand wearing full-blown suits?
Hmmm, has anyone ever seen all three of those people together at the same time, or any combination thereof?
That’s the Steel Pier, built in 1898. Most of it is gone now, hurricanes and series of fires. It’s biggest claim to fame for much of it’s life was the diving horse (literally, a horse and rider than dove into water).
My mom’s family brought their personal camera to the shore (they had a house on Ocean City, one island south of AC), and there are hilarious pictures of my great-grandparents, grandmother, great aunts and uncles, etc, all horsing around on the beach in their 1920’s-40’s bathing wear. You can be assured that burying your little brother up to his neck in sand was as hilarious 80 years ago as it is today.
Is it just me, or are the two guys towards the left of that picture, seated in the sand/water - friends of Dorothy?
I like "Rasputin"on the far, last right. He had to have taken orders.
A bit left of center, in a striped tunic, I see Lucius Vorenus glowering at this infernal image taking device as if it were an offense against the gods of the State.