lifeguard

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Life Guards, Los Angeles (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    Los Angeles County Lifeguards, by Arthur C. Verge books.google.com/books?id=ukpkvGQvbY4C suggests (a) that Venice had lifeguards by 1909 and (b) after lifeguard teams across Los Angeles had been combined, LA county's first female lifeguard was hired in 1930. So I wonder whether these are women replacing men during WWI. Or did women have special guard responsibilities related to children?
  • Retired at last said:
    And they get on with their knitting while there's nothing going on.
  • swanq said:
    See Life guards, Los Angeles (LOC)
  • swanq said:
    The reel at right, under the bell, must be to help pull people to safety. The notice on the post reads, "Break Glass, Turn Button, in case of danger."

Women's team, Coffs Harbour Jetty Surf Life Saving Club

from State Library of New South Wales

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Maria Pastore said:
    strong.. this photo is nice
  • elenakaimak said:
    they go somehow strange!
  • Toni said:
    awesome!
  • Kenneth Freeman said:
    Surreal. It took me a moment to realize they were carrying someone.
  • Shunny Banai said:
    I love the black and white, it compleates the picture

Life guards, Los Angeles (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Dr-Chomp said:
    Look at the other women in the back looking at the women upfront in bathing suits... they are most probably saying: "What a disgrace that these youth are going so naked" - thanks goodness times have changed! :)
  • Richard Norton said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles
  • Retired at last said:
    Or they are thinking "Good, they're not wasting their time, they're knitting while they watch out for people drowning."
  • swanq said:
    See Life Guards, Los Angeles (LOC)