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- Drinks for everyone, just don't lose your head
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- What The?
- Hellgamite
- Signs
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hotel Weirs
- Mr. Bean
- Edison
- Moxie
- I'm absolutely in love with Kat Mullin!
- A Not So Uncommon Fate
- Water Tower
- Fender Roads
- And in 1943 --
- Re: Favorite year
- Santa Lucia Plantation
- Nice "Trike"
- Designed to impress
- Wasp waist
- Emphatically a Rock Island Town
- Nice Bike
- Shhh
- Two things --
- SIX SECONDS OF HISTORY
- A slot rail in the middle?
- Quaint
- Re: My Favorite Year
- A perfect scene!
- John McGiver comes to mind
- The Bank Block is still half there (right side).
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Rye Beach: 1905
The New Hampshire coast circa 1905. "Rye Beach bathers." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Fashonista
Seen here, a scowling 1905 fashion model, walking the runway, wearing the latest one piece swimsuit from the collection of top designer Davy Jones. She is also a top contender in the quest to be the featured cover girl in this year's Sporting News' swimsuit issue.
Dress code
Sometimes I wonder why the gentlemen of that age didn't wear ties with he swimsuits. They seem to have worn them with almost everything else, anytime, anywhere. Witness the kid to the center right. C'mon mom, it's Sunday!
My Great Grandfather +11
Homesteaded on this beach in the 1640's, Captain John Locke.
Early Beach Blankets
...center and left.
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