Bathing Parades c. 1920s

Balboa Beach, 1920

Galveston, Texas 1922

Galveston, Texas, 1923

Atlantic City, 1925

Balboa Beach, 1925

Crystal Pier, California, 1925

Huffington Beach, California, 1925

Venice, California, 1925

Venice, California, 1926

Long Beach, California, 1927

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Images drawn from the Library of Congress

July 24th, 2011

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3 comments to Bathing Parades c. 1920s

• Kris

  July 24, 2011 at 5:41 pm · Reply

  Wow! This must be a bathing parade!?!?!?
  http://www.twitpic.com/5ldf8o

  This is Old Hickory, Tennessee – July 4th in the early 1920s. I always wondered what they were doing!

• Clint

  July 25, 2011 at 12:29 am · Reply

  Just a small correction, that one should be “Huntington Beach, California” – my home town.

• Morton

  December 27, 2011 at 3:52 pm · Reply

  ad. ‘Atlantic City, 1925′
  -the inscription on the photograph clearly states:
  “Inter-City Beauties, Atlantic City Pageant, 1927″

  also: great photos! :p