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Montrose Beach: 1946

"Montrose Beach, Chicago, 1946." Another colorful entry from this batch of 35mm Kodachrome slides found on eBay. View full size.

"Montrose Beach, Chicago, 1946." Another colorful entry from this batch of 35mm Kodachrome slides found on eBay. View full size.

 

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No bikinis

Strictly-speaking, this was a "two-piece".
The bikini bottom was cut more briefly and really did not come into general use until after 1946 (although the bikini was "invented" and named that year).

Montrose Beach: 2012

The near tower now sits in the middle of a long berm, so you can no longer see the water from the original vantage point. The far tower sits on a breakwater.

Montrose Beach today

I checked Google Maps and was amazed to see that the two light towers are still there.

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