So it goes

Man at the beach fined for not wearing decent clothes. Netherlands, Heemskerk, 1931.

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U.S. troops disembark from an LST on the beach at LeHarve,France just after the harbor was cleared of mines and beach obstacles; Nov. 16,1944.

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April 2, 1954: A couple is photographed moments after learning that their 19-month-old child had been swept out to sea at Hermosa Beach. That morning, Times photographer Jack Gaunt was at his beachfront home when he heard a neighbor shout, “Something’s happening on the beach!” Gaunt grabbed his Rolliflex camera and headed toward the shoreline. His photograph appeared on the front page of The Times the next day. The image won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for press photography; the Pulitzer committee called the photo “poignant and profoundly moving.” But for Gaunt, the image was hard to bear at first, his daughter recalled in Gaunt’s 2007 Times obituary.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

Henry Ford, 22nd Street, Hermosa Beach, 1963

Ricky Hatch for Jacobs Surf Boards, Hermosa Beach, 1961

Jac. de Nijs, near Zandvoort, Holland

“Football team.” Circa 1895-1910, location unknown. “James”

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The Potomac bathing beach with a view of the Washington Monument circa 1922.

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New York circa 1905. “Bulldog on the beach, Coney Island.”

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A life guard. Brighton Beach, New York. ca 1905.

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