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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)

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."