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Circa 1905. "Boardwalk, Atlantic City." Strollers on parade, at least one beach baby, and a number of ponies. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
The rolling chairs are still part of Atlantic City. You pay someone with a chair and they push you on the boardwalk.
Hawk777-I'd slap a newborn for some of those beehive insulators off to the right.
Anyone expecting?
Dave: best detail yet in all your pics of, er, powerlines.
The lady in the foreground has quite the figure. Considering the glances within the photo in her general direction, I'm not the only one me thinks.
"But each day when she walks to the sea, She looks straight ahead not at me."
Both men and women are stealing glances of the slender young ladies in the center foreground. We'll never see what they saw.
I see several examples of rolling chairs in this photo. Can someone enlighten me as to how they worked? Were they like bicycles or were they pushed? I've looked in Boardwalk Empire but he gives no details about their mechanics.
[They're something of a Shorpy tradition: for example.]
It's "Hot and Cold Seawater Baths"!. Charging for hot seawater baths I could see, but cold? Go swim with the fishies!
I wonder about the baby in the pram. Was it a boy or a girl? How much of the 20th century was he/she around to see? My grandfather, born just three years later, said that he thought he'd been born at about the best time possible.
Careful with the baby!! My eye went straight to the ladies taking the stroller down to the beach. I just love how that moment was captured.
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