From the photo album...
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| Scanned photos in Galveston, 1954 |
Here you can see at least one pier or boardwalk that is enclosed.. (I took the name boardwalkbarb later for my emails, and people always wondered why. I love the song, "Under the Boardwalk" as well as the water. I'm sure this flimsy structure is no longer standing. But I love the interfaces in life and nature, the place where two elements come together and create an edge of each, a blending.
I think my sister (smaller girl) and I are holding coffee cans as our beach toys. My dad was probably the photographer! Notice the ladies in their bathing caps. Lower picture shows my grandmother with the children. Incidentally, neither of us girls could swim yet. I learned years later in a St. Louis indoor swimming pool.
This is my Sepia Saturday contribution this week. Come over and see some other seaside shots!
15 comments:
We get a lot of that "soapy water" in Virginia Beach too. These pictures are so cute. I love "Under the Boardwalk" too. I also like "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." Great songs!
Hi Barbara; loved the album photos and can relate to the time they were taken, if not the place. The costumes they are wearing look very similar to those worn by my wife around the same time when she was a girl.
Being almost 69 as well, those bathing suits look very familiar. Must have been a world wide fashion.
Nice pictures!
I have a picture of myself and sisters lined up on the beach in our bathing suits. It is too ugly to show.
How poetic - 'soapy water'! I really enjoyed your pictures and descriptions.
That describes it! Loved your pictures. I went wading in the Gulf Coast in Biloxi in the late 90's ... that water is a lot warmer than the water on the Oregon Coast.
Kathy M.
I had never seen the ocean until we moved to Texas and I saw some of that "soapy water" along the coast.
Great photos and descriptions. But ho, how I long to see that last picture - what delights are hidden under the album cover?
That's what I like swimming in the sea: the soapy water. Beautiful pictures!
Such bubbly and soapy fun indeed! Just adore the memories!
I guess the fact that you can't swim is why your hands are being clutched so tightly - great photos, thank you.
Great pictures ... but what's happened to the 6th one? It seems to have slipped off the page.
That was fun seeing the photos from Galveston. I visited there once and found the city very interesting, but also depressing because of the hurricanes and floods in their history.
Nancy
Those first visits to the ocean are always a memory for old and young. The smell of the salt air, the sound of the surf, and the cool thrill of what seems an infinite amount of water.
Wonderfully apt photos, Barbara!
Never mind, "Under the Boardwalk", now I'm going to have Glen Campbell singing, "Galveston" in my head all day!
Kat
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