Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-13
CROWDS FLOCK To
SUNDAY RESORTS
BEACHES AND MOUNTAINS, At
TRACT THOUSANDS
Surf and Skating Kinks Divide the
Attention Of Hordes Of Merry
makers With Canyons
and Trails

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| Thousands Of pleasure-loving Ange-
| limos flocked to the various beaches
yesterday to enjoy the cool sea breezes
and the invlgoration of the surf baths
or to enjoy mountain trips.
Although the temperature scarcely
rose above so degrees and a fine sea
breeze kept this place comfortable all
day, many of the working people, who
have only one day of rest and recrea-
tion, took advantage of the Sunday
holiday to enjoy an outing.
Bands of musicians made the diff
ferent piers gay with music, the sharp
smell of salt in the air added zest to
the picnickers' appetites, and fine
surf furnished splendid bathing for
the throngs who crowded the shore.
At Long Beach the long, level strand
was fairly alive with happy bathers.
Here and there a shapely maiden pre-
ferred to promenade rather than to
soil her dainty bathing suit-which
never was meant for the water-by a
too close contact with the sad sea
waves.
At Redondo's Beach
On Redondo's shore the same scenes
were enacted. Happy bathers bobbed
up and down in the surf, while others
shore. One old grandmother of sixty
odd years was leading her little grand
daughter along the edge of the water,
while the little ones eyes sparkled and
she fairly danced with pent up ex-
element as an adventurous wave
threatened to dash UP and wet her
dainty feet above the ankles.
Venice, with her gay midway, at
tracted thousands of others Mirth and
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pervaded the place and made 1t an
ideal spot in which to forget dull care.
The cries of the barkers, the bright
oriental coloring, the Venetian archi-
lecture and the picturesque gondolas
gave a lively touch to an already hilar-
ious scene.
Ocean Park, too, had its full quota
of merrymakers. The magnificent
plunge was crowded to it's fullest ca
pacity yesterday afternoon Hundreds
preferred bathing in still water under
shelter rather than to expose their
compilations to the rays of an impair
tial sun that persists in tanning the
magnates daughter as much as the
laborer's wife. And the waves were
rougher and colder than the placid,
steam warmed waters of the plunge.
Sometimes the bystander wonders
why the young men are so insistent in
having their fair companions come
down the chutes; but If that onlooker
stays till the maiden has done so his
mind is enlightened. The JOY of rescu-
ing her at the foot of the slide is
where the fun comes in.
LoII on Sand
The beach at Santa Monica is ad-
mirably adapted for resting on the
sand. AS several hundred young peo-
pie have found this to he the case be-
fore this may not seem to be an origi-
nal observation but 1t is at least true.
The young folks have their dip in the
surf, and Immediately come out and
begin playing in the sand. They bury
each others legs and arms in the sand.
One young man had completely COW
cred his lady love, leaving only her
head exposed.
Occasionally one sees a group play
ing sand games. A favorite pastime is
for the girls to bury their arms to
the elbow, all arms at the same place.
Fair hands are then worked out of the
sand, the arms still being hidden, and
each young man must guess which
hand belongs to his maid. And woe to
him who guesses wrongly. But long
familiarity with the hand has made
the youth sure of the right one, and he
seldom makes a mistake.
At Playa Del Rey the skating rink
claims a large part of the visitors. For
the time every one is content to be a
roller, and on Sunday, of course, a
"holy roller" Every one knows what
scenes one beholds on skating floor
of the impromptu proposals The young
man makes to his fair partner by
dropping on his knees before her; OF
the vain and foolish attempts of other
individuals to skate on their ears,
arms or on their backs; of the fancy
skaters who "do things" in the center
of the floor; of the innocents who are
for the first time testing the stability
of the elusive wheels; of the-but why
go on further? The scene is COM
mon one.
And at all the beaches one sees the
patient fisherman. With his rod in his
hand he sits out on the edge of the
pier. his legs dangling over the edge
while he strives-alas, too often in
vain!-to lure the finny denizen of the
deep from his life of contentment
meath the briny waves. He heeds not
the unkind rays of the sun that raise
- L. l.