Postcards promoting Southern California beachgoing are colorful affairs, except for the people depicted. Many beaches were off-limits to nonwhite people for decades.
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At first, women sat on dry sand in stiflingly layered dresses. Some hitched up their skirts a bit to set their bare feet on wet sand. In time, two- and three-piece black ensembles of top, trousers and overskirt, oddly like feminized sailor suits, let women plunge in but not go too far. The Redondo Beach Pier and Strand are seen in a 1941-postmarked postcard from Patt Morrison’s collection.
The Long Beach sand is packed with beachgoers on this vintage postcard from Patt Morrison’s collection.
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