spatch

Two new sets are up on Flickr, everybody's favorite "I'd like to buy a vowel" photo site.

	MARBLEHEAD BEACH BY DAY Random trip to a random beach in Marblehead. Thrill to cameraphone-quality sunset shots, wise signs, and I don't know what that other thing is.
	NECCO GARAGE BY NIGHT Here we are playing with light and brightness and I don't know what that other thing is.

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Ah ha! That thing's supposed to be a sundial?! Holy cats. I thought it was hooked up to the barge/raft thing next to it. It looks like castoff salvage is what it looks like.

Was that bath house ever in use when you were around? It looks like such a nifty little building. Probably totally trashed inside, but hey.

From: (Anonymous)

Hard to remember, 'cause when I went to that beach regularly, I was probably in my *cough* pee-in-the-ocean phase *cough*, but yes, I do believe there were working terlets and possibly even showers in that thar little house-y thingamajigger. And there was a fine little snack bar a few steps away that used to really just be a snack bar but is now almost an actual *gasp!* restaurant. (It's so wrong, if you ask me. An ice cream truck and a Thermos™ should be sufficient for a full day at the beach!)

Once I got a bit more growed up, it was way cooler to go to Preston Beach, on the line between Marblehead and Swampscott. (No, I don't actually remember why it seemed cooler.) There were no public toilets there, but my friend Nina's house was across the street and, after college, my parents moved near there (traitors! on the wrong side of the Swampscott line and everything!) and THEIR restrooms and showers, not to mention parking spaces, were mighty convenient. Also, free, which is more than can be said for parking at any of those beaches otherwise.