The return of a heat wave has me writing about the beach. (Not going to the beach, which sounds unbearably hot right now, but thinking and writing about it.) So, here’s the Brighton Beach Bathing Pavilion in 1879, one year after it opened:
The three big hotels nearby, including the Brighton beach Hotel immediately adjacent, were not for the wealthy, but they also weren’t inexpensive in the way we’ve come to think of Coney Island as inexpensive. The pavilion, on the other hand, had rentable bathing suits and changing rooms on the second floor and cheap amusements on the first floor. That weird elephant trunk was a ramp to take bathers straight from the changing room to the beach and back again. For a more accurate view of the pavilion: here.
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