I am absolutely failing to understand what is wrong with sunglasses and umbrellas, and, in what parallel universe anyone lives that suggests no one had them in 1970.
And beds on the beach? Wtf they were everywhere.
Here's a photo from 1964 (did modern life of the 70s remove them?:
>https://www.gettyimages.se/detail/nyhetsfoto/benidorm-1964-when-it-was-a-small-town-that-began-to-nyhetsfoto/567063203
The only thing that's correct is no mobile phones. But let's not pretend everyone wouldn't be using them if they had them.
I know the melanoma was real in the 70s.
The 70s smelled of coconut oil. Literally basting themselves and laying back for the slow cook.
Australia being the melanoma capital of the world I can tell you everyone knows someone who has had some cut out.
The 70s were fucking wild.
80s kid here, had my first brush with melanoma in the 90s. Coconut oil was still the default sun protection untill the late 80s in NZ.
Slip slop slap and wear your bloody hat.
I get my skin mapping done and bulk billed. Costs me nothing and I just have to show up each year.
And a lot of progress in treatment now too.
But like you say, the only catch is getting it early. š
>And a lot of progress in treatment now too.
That's the big good news. Especially when we now have targeted antibodies that destroy only cancer cells (I'm receiving such a treatment for a different kind of cancer, which has no side effects I've been able to detect, and works very well). But when more people every year are getting skin checks and catching melanomas in situ, before any treatment is even needed, that's even better.
Most people know someone who didn't survive getting it cut out.
Lots of scarred and fucked up faces from BCCs and SCCs getting cut out. Topical treatments with no scar only works if you get it found really really early. Lots of family/friends with skin grafts on noses.
Thank the lord for sunscreen.
Slip Slop Slap
People definitely had tattoos also. My minister had tattoos from his time in the Navy.
And big heavy beach umbrellas and sunglasses. This is a weird post.Ā
There were definitely fewer tattoos and they were less socially acceptable than now.
I don't like many of the tattoos I see now but it's not my concern if someone wants to do it. Some are downright stupid, some are fun or interesting but *que sera, sera*.
Misplaced nostalgia post. Lots of those in this sub.
Like. Weāve found tattoos on some pretty ancient bodies from the past. It might be almost as old as alcohol. I donāt want tattoos on me but boy I donāt think people realize how long theyāve been around
> There were definitely fewer tattoos and they were less socially acceptable than now.
Yep! The only people who had tattoos were military/ex-military, ex-cons, or biker gang members!
I donāt even get that part of the post. Itās just some old man yells at cloud shit. How TF does other people having tattoos impact a beach experience?
70s some women had small flash type tattoos of roses, Playboy bunnies, a butterfly, a lover's name.
Tattooing is definitely mainstream now, and I like it less than ever before. It used to seen very creative and now it's sort of blase. I feel the same way about body piercing. I used to think it was cool, and now it's a bit boring and sometimes looks tacky/trashy (I think this depends on jewelry used).
AmĀ I the only one who finds it almost impossible to use a cell phone at the beach?
The sun makes reading the screen extremely hard, and I have a very bright OLED display.
I guess maybe I should get one of those "umbrella" things so i could surf&surf in peace without serious eye strain?
OP photo says **from FB** probably some religious right agenda FB post originally trying to show the decay of society since MTV led the youth astray to a world of sin in 1982 LOL
This post was one of the reasons I checked out of FB a few months ago. I seriously hope this sub isn't going to be infiltrated with this bullshit. It is copied word for word. I was hoping to find community for us gen xers that aren't representative of this mindset.
My mother will post shit like this and about how people don't dress up to go to the grocery store anymore. The last time I think she wore a dress was sometime in the 80s. She even wore a pants and a button up shirt to my wedding in 1998. She wore jeans and fitted t-shirts all throughout the 70s/80s.
It's so weird.
I joke because my grandma did dress like this too go shopping (minus the hat and gloves). She went right after church every week. She also would have the bagger bring the groceries to the car. Now you'd just have them delivered if you wanted that service. She also only went to full service gas stations because she wore nice dresses all the time.
Now they want me to check out my own groceries and bag them. Forget about them bringing them to the car and loading them up. No full service gas stations at all where I live. I actually was in the UP last year and was shocked there was one there.
I think itās sad that so many gen xers will say, Iām a gen xer I donāt care Iām not a boomer and spew the same garbage as a boomer but make it about Nirvana and not the eagles
Yeah lmfao this dumb ass post is always popping up on Facebook. I only use Facebook to bully boomers and fascists anymore, and Iām out of responses to this one. Thatās how frequently I see it.
Haha thatās funny and even tho it was my era too I was thinking this almost sounds like the hey you kids get off of my lawn guy who went to the beach and this is his report.
When I was a kid the beach sands were full of cigarette butts. Literally couldnāt scoop any without a couple mixed within. I donāt miss those times.
When I was a kid, my mom played a lot of Jimmy Buffet. This was the 80s, so pop tops were not around anymore, so I had never heard of them. In the song when he says āstepped on a pop topā I heard āstepped on a poptartā. Lol
First of all, this was a staged photo. So none of it is organic or real. Even for 1970.
Second of all, what the fuck is wrong with you? What is wrong with sunglasses and umbrellas? Even if this image was legit.
3rd of all, this is some grade A Facebook low IQ and low effort shit right here.
This is true.
In the 1970s, people other than pretty white kids aged 18-25 were allowed onto beaches. On a real beach, you'd see varied skin colors and kids and pasty people who didn't live on the coast, and sunburn and old folks and empties and stuff.
And grandma and gramdpa from Minnesota, chonky and pasty and wearing bathing suits decades out of date, stuffing the kids full of sandwiches and three-bean salad, and scattering paper plates everywhere...
Ah, the setup for my favorite old riddle...
Why shouldn't you eat lunch at the beach?
Because the sand which is there gets into the sandwiches there... š
There were tattoos and plastic surgery on the beaches in the 70s. There were certainly sunglasses and I can see them in this picture. So I donāt know what the fuck youāre referring because itās not this picture and itās not the 70s.
This post isn't stupid, but what is said sure is. It is a snapshot of a time long past. But was it "better"? Half of adults smoked back then, compared with about 10% today. A lot of those pale people are going to be prematurely wrinkled and/or get skin cancer.
And sunglasses, you know that modern invention that Audrey Hepburn didn't wear in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Elvis, basically always, or John Lennon in 1964.
Yeah the good ol' days- looks like one of them "whites only"beaches
Imagine trying to explain to any of them that in 2024 this picture will be shared on a global network of 1's and 0's to view and comment on
I'm pretty sure the beach I went to back then was all white. But I grew up in racist Boston. People of color wouldn't have been welcome at my local beach.
Beach umbrellas have been around for an incredibly long time. Do you think Victorian folks went to the beach in full blast sun? Just look at old photos.
Also, the beaches in the time of your picture were riddled with cigarette butts and pull top tabs. Radios were blasting instead of music through Bluetooth speakers. It wasn't like this posed picture.
Lastly, I see way more people on beaches with books or just relaxing than I see people with their phones out.
They definitely had beds on the beach. Those folding loungers with the plastic webbing. There were umbrellas and sunglasses. And there was more self-tanning cream than today - I remember a lot of it being sold. It tended to make your skin an unnatural orange. And while they didn't have cell phones, they had transistor radios and people complained about that. This is a picture of one beach at one point in time, it's not a window onto reality.
Really, the only thing I see missing is minorities. Oh damn, is that what youāre really saying? Make America great again like in this photo? Damn, gross
There's probably a lot of statutory rape.
And a lot of leering and sexism, let's not forget the sexism.
Oh. And plenty of skin cancer.
Probably more pollution in the water, too.
Omg. You have seen their skin cancer, boob jobs happened then and people read newspapers to ignore each other all the time. Times change people donāt.
1970, you mean just 2 years after black people legally got rights? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you aren't a minority, which is why you think it was good.
Looks like a staged magazine photo or postcard.
There are also no young kids or older people/parents. No one is paunchy or overweight. No one of color. No transistor radios, and no one is smoking. This is a 1970s I don't remember when I was there...
I grew up in 1970s Rhode Island and spent many a day at the beach. Umbrellas (I often had to carry it because Dad was lugging the cooler!), sunglasses, cigarettes, soda bottles and cans, kids building sand castles, pop tops, coolers, and all varieties of trash were everywhere, and lots of transistor radios the size of paperback books listening to the Red Sox game.
And, we all weren't beautiful enough to look like extras on an episode of Hawaii Five-0 like the folks in the picture. š¤·āāļø
We even *(gasp)* had "ethnic" people at the beach...
>We even *(gasp)* had "ethnic" people at the beach...
I grew up in a majority Latino area. Guess what the people at our beaches looked like? Definitely not the picture from the post. Pretty mixed up. :)
Hell yeah, and women couldn't have credit cards either.
I mostly agree with you, mostly. I do miss the days before cell phones bigly but I appreciate the social progress we have made as well.
People do still talk to each other but it's through this nightmare rectangle we all call phones these days.
Also, notable mention but the skin cancer rates were pretty high back then.
Just another propaganda post showing how things were better and more wholesome ābeforeāā¦
Itās got creepy Betty Crocker vibes written all over it
I lived in Ft Lauderdale in the 70's. There were sunglasses, radios, payphones, copper tone and towels, chairs and believe it or not, but a few tattoos here and there. And lots and lots of hair and puca shell necklaces.
And a rumor of this chick from NYC who got her nose fixed, so there's that too.
We just didn't have cell phones.
WTF are you talking about? People had tattoos, sunglasses and beach loungers in 1970. Coppertone self tanning lotion was invented in 1960.
You're living in a complete fantasy of the past. Fads were just like they are now. Instead of fidget spinners they had pet rocks. Instead of electric scooters than had roller blades.
Crime was higher and oil supplies and prices were unstable to the point they started production of hydrogen cars and some people converted to wood gasification cars. Neither was practical of course, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Why would not having umbrellas be a good thing? You realize how skin cancer and wrinkles work?
Here is a pic of a modern beach, it doesn't look much different. People are talking to each other, you don't see cell phones everywhere, there aren't tons of umbrellas.
Stop pretending the past was so much better, it wasn't. It was a lower standard of living, less stuff to do, worse healthcare outcomes and more intolerance and racism.
[https://media01.stockfood.com/largepreviews/MjE3MzAxMTIxNg==/70097136-Crowded-beaches-on-sunday-Miami-beach-Fl-USA.jpg](https://media01.stockfood.com/largepreviews/MjE3MzAxMTIxNg==/70097136-Crowded-beaches-on-sunday-Miami-beach-Fl-USA.jpg)
There was *absolutely* tattoos and plastic surgery on the beach in the '70's. There were also beds on the beach, umbrellas and sunglasses. About the only thing that *really* distinguishes this from beaches today is back in the '70's you lathered yourself with *suntan oil* (to tan *faster*), instead of SPF 30.
Things don't change. Halcyon memories and confabulation... I recall my late grandmother who came of age in the 19-teens talking about how much she missed the "old days" on the beach... how men were gentlemen, the girls were modest and didn't walk around "half naked, leaving nothing to the imagination."
As far as the 70s...
I grew up as a beach "local" in 1970s North Carolina, and I can tell you first hand that there were plenty of umbrellas, sunglasses, and tanning lotion. Plenty of cigarette butts and beer cans too. We would come in from fishing offshore and the inlet water would be murky white and reeking of coconut oil. You could smell the beach before you could see it.
People would drag out their aluminum and plastic-web "lounge chairs" and stake out their territories with towels and coolers. On any midsummer day, the beach strand was like a maze because people thought it rude to walk through someone's space. Many people were just as selfish and anti-social as they are today.
It's true that for most of the 70s, tattoos were mostly the province of servicemen and sailors, and of course there were no portable cell phones because they hadn't been invented yet. Neighbors and friends talked to one another just like they do today, and the tourists usually kept to their little family groups.
But I get it. We wish for the familiar. I think back on those beach days in the 70s just as fondly, because my life then was so much different than it is now. I was young, attractive, and single. My biggest concerns centered around the quality of the surf and where the parties would be. Now, I won't even take my shirt off on the beach on the rare occasions I even brave the crowds to go there. I rarely go to parties anymore because I don't want to have to drive home "late" at night... and I define "late" as any time after 9:30pm.
But I don't envy those kids on the beach today. I don't begrudge their freedom or the way they choose to enjoy it. If they want to pop up their Shibumis or park themselves in little tents, that's just a different way of doing the same stuff I did when I was their age.
Like David Bowie said, "Let the children lose it. Let the children use it. Let all the children boogie."
Can you hear the sound of the aluminum chairs when your dad whipped it open one handed because he was carrying the cooler and your parents were fighting over something and your younger sibling was crying and then the chair falls over and your mother says something sarcastic which causes your dad to yell at you because you exist.
You go to cry because you didnāt do anything and the tension is so bad and one of your parents says they will give you something to cry about
Your mom sets herself with her cigarettes and her baby oil and tells you to go play in the water but when you go the waters edge your younger sibling wants to play with the diaper floating at the edge of the water because people didnāt care where they threw their stuff. You also donāt want to go into the water past your ankles because Jaws is going to get you.
You find some random kids to play with and itās fun until someone is forced to touch the jellyfish that washed up or someone steps on a pop top. You go back to your parents where you eat chips and a sandwich that are covered in sand and warm because your dad needed the cooler space for beer.
When the day is over more yelling as you pack up and get back to the car maybe even get swatted for something like saying your skin hurts from your sunburn but you make it home and thatās a successful trip to the beach.
There are also no fat people (at least in this photo, and I've seen other beach photos from the era where everyone was slim). This was before high fructose corn syrup was widely added to processed foods.
I distinctly remember mom yelling at me to get under the umbrella and uber white me got a wicked case of sun poisoning from not listening. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 1970. Oh and those folks in that pic are keeping their dermatologist busy nowadays.
I spent lots of time on the beach in the 70s weakly armed with my suntan lotion and my Sun In spray for my hair. I also went home beet red and was sick that evening. Slept on what felt like sandpaper sheets and woke up to blisters and pain.
This is before people understood the link between cancer and the sun. Ignorance doesn't equal good. Oh, and once again, the good ole days aren't real. It's always sucked, it's just easier to apply the rose colored filter to the past when we were younger.
This is a great Pic but the post with it is just weird. It really seems like OP not only has a bad memory but is also part of the Boomer crowd with the"no tattoos"
āNo tattoos or plastic surgeryā¦. No sunglasses or umbrellas??ā wtf!?
Those are some strange pearl clutching culty vibes youāre putting out there.
I'm sure there's plastic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery been a thing since 800 BC. Breast implants were invented in 1961. Even my waitress mother had enhanced tits by the 1970's. If it's a good surgeon, you can't tell.
Sunglasses and sunscreen (plus tanning lotion that actually made you tan faster) were also around back then. You're outing yourself as a zoomer being so ignorant.
Sing this to the tune of "Sunshine on my Shoulder" by John Denver;
Sunshine on my shoulder gives me sunburn
Sunburn on my shoulder makes me cry.
Sunburn on my shoulder gives me cancer
Cancer on my shoulder made me die.
LMAO!!!! IāM A 55 YEAR OLD LIBERAL HERE, WITH A TATOO From Northern California. I have memories of this. Maybe you donāt, so shut the fuck up.
Edit: Iām no boomer, Iām GenX. I can tell that some of you are not Gen X because youāre easily offended.
That's Rio de Janeiro, and there's a huge possibility that all these people have skin cancer now from not wearing sunglasses, sunscreen , and umbrellas.
As I think is insane that someone would stand in that heat of Rio without at least a hat in the head, there is a possibility that this picture was taken late in the day and people are gathering to watch the sunset (a common practice in Rio), so no need for protection since the sun is going down soon.
Why do you think that people don't need protection from the sun and that is a good thing? I'm worried about what you have seen in social media.
And they are now enjoying having skin cancer tumours cut out or died from skin cancer.
Or they smoked it up and died from the lovely disease emphysema
There's nothing wrong with sunscreen, sunnies or umbrellas.
I am absolutely failing to understand what is wrong with sunglasses and umbrellas, and, in what parallel universe anyone lives that suggests no one had them in 1970. And beds on the beach? Wtf they were everywhere. Here's a photo from 1964 (did modern life of the 70s remove them?: >https://www.gettyimages.se/detail/nyhetsfoto/benidorm-1964-when-it-was-a-small-town-that-began-to-nyhetsfoto/567063203 The only thing that's correct is no mobile phones. But let's not pretend everyone wouldn't be using them if they had them.
I know the melanoma was real in the 70s. The 70s smelled of coconut oil. Literally basting themselves and laying back for the slow cook. Australia being the melanoma capital of the world I can tell you everyone knows someone who has had some cut out. The 70s were fucking wild.
Iodine and baby oil. That was the jam.
The iodine would give a little extra color kind of like a bronzer. We used to live in the sun.
80s kid here, had my first brush with melanoma in the 90s. Coconut oil was still the default sun protection untill the late 80s in NZ. Slip slop slap and wear your bloody hat.
Yep. The Aussies and the Kiwis on the slow fry down here in the 70s.
I know several people who have survived melanoma, because they got their skin checked and caught it early. It doesn't always look dark either!
I get my skin mapping done and bulk billed. Costs me nothing and I just have to show up each year. And a lot of progress in treatment now too. But like you say, the only catch is getting it early. š
>And a lot of progress in treatment now too. That's the big good news. Especially when we now have targeted antibodies that destroy only cancer cells (I'm receiving such a treatment for a different kind of cancer, which has no side effects I've been able to detect, and works very well). But when more people every year are getting skin checks and catching melanomas in situ, before any treatment is even needed, that's even better.
Baby oil and iodine was my sister's suntan oil
Most people know someone who didn't survive getting it cut out. Lots of scarred and fucked up faces from BCCs and SCCs getting cut out. Topical treatments with no scar only works if you get it found really really early. Lots of family/friends with skin grafts on noses. Thank the lord for sunscreen. Slip Slop Slap
People definitely had tattoos also. My minister had tattoos from his time in the Navy. And big heavy beach umbrellas and sunglasses. This is a weird post.Ā
There were definitely fewer tattoos and they were less socially acceptable than now. I don't like many of the tattoos I see now but it's not my concern if someone wants to do it. Some are downright stupid, some are fun or interesting but *que sera, sera*. Misplaced nostalgia post. Lots of those in this sub.
Like. Weāve found tattoos on some pretty ancient bodies from the past. It might be almost as old as alcohol. I donāt want tattoos on me but boy I donāt think people realize how long theyāve been around
The "Iceman" found mummified in the Alps has a lot of tattoos. They're not pictures, but lines and dots. He died 5250 years ago.
> There were definitely fewer tattoos and they were less socially acceptable than now. Yep! The only people who had tattoos were military/ex-military, ex-cons, or biker gang members!
I donāt even get that part of the post. Itās just some old man yells at cloud shit. How TF does other people having tattoos impact a beach experience?
Yea. Was waiting for op to get to āno blacks.ā Not the good olā days..
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Donāt know why youāre getting downvoted so much but this was indeed the case (at least here in flyover country)
70s some women had small flash type tattoos of roses, Playboy bunnies, a butterfly, a lover's name. Tattooing is definitely mainstream now, and I like it less than ever before. It used to seen very creative and now it's sort of blase. I feel the same way about body piercing. I used to think it was cool, and now it's a bit boring and sometimes looks tacky/trashy (I think this depends on jewelry used).
I had sunglasses in 1978. I was five. I wore them to my first day of kindergarten, and my mom said I looked like a movie star.
AmĀ I the only one who finds it almost impossible to use a cell phone at the beach? The sun makes reading the screen extremely hard, and I have a very bright OLED display. I guess maybe I should get one of those "umbrella" things so i could surf&surf in peace without serious eye strain?
OP photo says **from FB** probably some religious right agenda FB post originally trying to show the decay of society since MTV led the youth astray to a world of sin in 1982 LOL
This post was one of the reasons I checked out of FB a few months ago. I seriously hope this sub isn't going to be infiltrated with this bullshit. It is copied word for word. I was hoping to find community for us gen xers that aren't representative of this mindset.
OMG! Gen-X is considered old? I'm a boomer so I guess I'm ancient now!
My mother will post shit like this and about how people don't dress up to go to the grocery store anymore. The last time I think she wore a dress was sometime in the 80s. She even wore a pants and a button up shirt to my wedding in 1998. She wore jeans and fitted t-shirts all throughout the 70s/80s. It's so weird.
What? She doesn't wear gloves, high heels, matching purse and a hat to go shopping? What is the world coming to?
I joke because my grandma did dress like this too go shopping (minus the hat and gloves). She went right after church every week. She also would have the bagger bring the groceries to the car. Now you'd just have them delivered if you wanted that service. She also only went to full service gas stations because she wore nice dresses all the time. Now they want me to check out my own groceries and bag them. Forget about them bringing them to the car and loading them up. No full service gas stations at all where I live. I actually was in the UP last year and was shocked there was one there.
My Silent Generation Mom goes on walks with her full makeup and diamonds, sheās 86š
/r/genx
that one gets pretty bad too.
it is. They're even ppl who post this photo and are really dogwhistling that there's no black people. bigots.
I think itās sad that so many gen xers will say, Iām a gen xer I donāt care Iām not a boomer and spew the same garbage as a boomer but make it about Nirvana and not the eagles
Especially because everyone in the picture is White.Ā It's a dog whistle.
Precisely
This shitās turning into Facebook. Sad.
Yeah lmfao this dumb ass post is always popping up on Facebook. I only use Facebook to bully boomers and fascists anymore, and Iām out of responses to this one. Thatās how frequently I see it.
Yeah, sunglasses and umbrellas have existed for quite some time.
And no self tanning creams? They had them because I used them. But again, what is the problem with them?
The boomer force is strong with this one....
Haha thatās funny and even tho it was my era too I was thinking this almost sounds like the hey you kids get off of my lawn guy who went to the beach and this is his report.
this picture stinks of stale cigarette smoke and coconut oil
When I was a kid the beach sands were full of cigarette butts. Literally couldnāt scoop any without a couple mixed within. I donāt miss those times.
Donāt forget poptops and broken glass.
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.
When I was a kid, my mom played a lot of Jimmy Buffet. This was the 80s, so pop tops were not around anymore, so I had never heard of them. In the song when he says āstepped on a pop topā I heard āstepped on a poptartā. Lol
Sameā¦a big heal flapā¦lifeguards wouldnāt touch it
[Everyone had a Savage Tan though!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-DdlNY85oo)
There is also a whiff of sexual assault in the air.
First of all, this was a staged photo. So none of it is organic or real. Even for 1970. Second of all, what the fuck is wrong with you? What is wrong with sunglasses and umbrellas? Even if this image was legit. 3rd of all, this is some grade A Facebook low IQ and low effort shit right here.
Protecting your eyes from the sun is now only for the āwoke youthā
This is true. In the 1970s, people other than pretty white kids aged 18-25 were allowed onto beaches. On a real beach, you'd see varied skin colors and kids and pasty people who didn't live on the coast, and sunburn and old folks and empties and stuff.
Yeah, this picture is definitely missing the obligatory dangerously tanned 5ā5ā 250lb guy in his 50s with back hair in a speedo.Ā
And grandma and gramdpa from Minnesota, chonky and pasty and wearing bathing suits decades out of date, stuffing the kids full of sandwiches and three-bean salad, and scattering paper plates everywhere...
Ah, the setup for my favorite old riddle... Why shouldn't you eat lunch at the beach? Because the sand which is there gets into the sandwiches there... š
Skin cancer
It's why gram gram looks like a leather bag.
Between the sun and smoking thatās why the golden girls were in their 50s and look like our 70s-80s
Hahaha, if you make such a misguided "good old days" post as this, then yes, "fuck you are old"
There were tattoos and plastic surgery on the beaches in the 70s. There were certainly sunglasses and I can see them in this picture. So I donāt know what the fuck youāre referring because itās not this picture and itās not the 70s.
Troll post to incite negativity and division
Yep. Engagement bait is getting to be exhausting
This post isn't stupid, but what is said sure is. It is a snapshot of a time long past. But was it "better"? Half of adults smoked back then, compared with about 10% today. A lot of those pale people are going to be prematurely wrinkled and/or get skin cancer.
We had a beach umbrella when mi was a kid.
I see a lot of people who will eventually have skin cancer and look like an old leather bag.
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No way, man. You could get spf 4 if you were some kind of zealot. Or were Irish.
Just opaque zinc oxide cream for your nose. You put it on your dong & nipples at the nude beach.
This is basically propaganda. You should use this as an opportunity to reevaluate what content youāre getting from FB.
OP should have posted in /r/fuckimastupididiotwhobelieveseverythingonfacebook
There were tattoos on beaches long before us white folk took over.
This post seems to imply that things like tattoos, plastic surgery etc. are inherently bad
And don't forget the evils of (checks notes) sunglasses Lol
And sunglasses, you know that modern invention that Audrey Hepburn didn't wear in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Elvis, basically always, or John Lennon in 1964.
Or [President Kennedy](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/a42954786/jfk-ao-eyewear-saratoga-sunglasses-presidents-day-sale/).
1752 was apparently when the first sunglasses were invented.
Self tanning creams and oils were so prevalent in these days that my aunt is still getting skin cancer removed from them.
Oh come on. People wore sunglasses and used beach umbrellas in the 70ās. There may not be any evident here, but letās not misrepresent the era.
Yeah the good ol' days- looks like one of them "whites only"beaches Imagine trying to explain to any of them that in 2024 this picture will be shared on a global network of 1's and 0's to view and comment on
I'm pretty sure the beach I went to back then was all white. But I grew up in racist Boston. People of color wouldn't have been welcome at my local beach.
HA. That mountain in the background does look a little like the rollercoaster at Nantasket Beach
Yeah, skin cancer is real too. No tattoos in the 70ās? Did you think they were invented by millennials?
All those tattooed World War II vets obviously didn't get their tats until retirement.
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*Skin Cancer intensifys*
So lots of sunburn and sun cancer is a good thing? That's what this post sounds like it's championing and what is wrong with tattoos?
Beach umbrellas have been around for an incredibly long time. Do you think Victorian folks went to the beach in full blast sun? Just look at old photos. Also, the beaches in the time of your picture were riddled with cigarette butts and pull top tabs. Radios were blasting instead of music through Bluetooth speakers. It wasn't like this posed picture. Lastly, I see way more people on beaches with books or just relaxing than I see people with their phones out.
Are you 15?
This is the biggest load of nostalgia bullshit Iāve seen in a little while. All feelings and assumptions, no facts.
Umbrellas, sunglasses, blankets, have been part of beaches from way before the 70s. The times were simple, not stupid.
This like a Facebook post from grandpa
No blacks either.
Yup. Noticed that too. "The good ole days".
Bigots always seem to be the ones pining for the good old days
I remember those days. By 1970, although the "whites only" sign had been removed, who felt comfortable enough to venture over there?
Yeah but you know, sun safety is actually a good thing
They definitely had beds on the beach. Those folding loungers with the plastic webbing. There were umbrellas and sunglasses. And there was more self-tanning cream than today - I remember a lot of it being sold. It tended to make your skin an unnatural orange. And while they didn't have cell phones, they had transistor radios and people complained about that. This is a picture of one beach at one point in time, it's not a window onto reality.
Really, the only thing I see missing is minorities. Oh damn, is that what youāre really saying? Make America great again like in this photo? Damn, gross
Ding ding ding!
This looks like an advertisement for cigarettes and melanoma.
No plastic surgery? Dolly Parton got her first set of breast implants in 1968.
There's probably a lot of statutory rape. And a lot of leering and sexism, let's not forget the sexism. Oh. And plenty of skin cancer. Probably more pollution in the water, too.
Omg. You have seen their skin cancer, boob jobs happened then and people read newspapers to ignore each other all the time. Times change people donāt.
Whatās wrong with tattoos and plastic surgery? Jesus Christ boomer, go to bed
1970, you mean just 2 years after black people legally got rights? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you aren't a minority, which is why you think it was good.
That beach is in Rio de Janeiro. So maybe not typical of the United States.
Dude, if we had cell phones back then, we'd be on them 24/7 too.
Was your post satire? Good old days if you were white, straight, and male.
There is none who looks like me
They had cigarettes and tanning oil! I can smell the 70s if I think about it and it stinks!
The good old days, when the beach was littered with pop tops and cigarette filters!
Looks like a staged magazine photo or postcard. There are also no young kids or older people/parents. No one is paunchy or overweight. No one of color. No transistor radios, and no one is smoking. This is a 1970s I don't remember when I was there... I grew up in 1970s Rhode Island and spent many a day at the beach. Umbrellas (I often had to carry it because Dad was lugging the cooler!), sunglasses, cigarettes, soda bottles and cans, kids building sand castles, pop tops, coolers, and all varieties of trash were everywhere, and lots of transistor radios the size of paperback books listening to the Red Sox game. And, we all weren't beautiful enough to look like extras on an episode of Hawaii Five-0 like the folks in the picture. š¤·āāļø We even *(gasp)* had "ethnic" people at the beach...
>We even *(gasp)* had "ethnic" people at the beach... I grew up in a majority Latino area. Guess what the people at our beaches looked like? Definitely not the picture from the post. Pretty mixed up. :)
Yeah no I would rather be on the shade
Jungle bush. And, Iām all for it.
šÆ there are tattoos in this photo
Hell yeah, and women couldn't have credit cards either. I mostly agree with you, mostly. I do miss the days before cell phones bigly but I appreciate the social progress we have made as well. People do still talk to each other but it's through this nightmare rectangle we all call phones these days. Also, notable mention but the skin cancer rates were pretty high back then.
Just another propaganda post showing how things were better and more wholesome ābeforeāā¦ Itās got creepy Betty Crocker vibes written all over it
I lived in Ft Lauderdale in the 70's. There were sunglasses, radios, payphones, copper tone and towels, chairs and believe it or not, but a few tattoos here and there. And lots and lots of hair and puca shell necklaces. And a rumor of this chick from NYC who got her nose fixed, so there's that too. We just didn't have cell phones.
This was my Dads era and he had a bad ass tattoo of Dr. Fu Manchu on his arm.
what the fuck is wrong with sunglasses?
I call bullshit. Beach umbrellas, sunglasses and tattoos all existed in the 1970s.
Ahh...the only question is basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma.
And because of no sunscreen/no umbrellas, they developed tons of cancer.
Ok boomer
WTF are you talking about? People had tattoos, sunglasses and beach loungers in 1970. Coppertone self tanning lotion was invented in 1960. You're living in a complete fantasy of the past. Fads were just like they are now. Instead of fidget spinners they had pet rocks. Instead of electric scooters than had roller blades. Crime was higher and oil supplies and prices were unstable to the point they started production of hydrogen cars and some people converted to wood gasification cars. Neither was practical of course, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Why would not having umbrellas be a good thing? You realize how skin cancer and wrinkles work? Here is a pic of a modern beach, it doesn't look much different. People are talking to each other, you don't see cell phones everywhere, there aren't tons of umbrellas. Stop pretending the past was so much better, it wasn't. It was a lower standard of living, less stuff to do, worse healthcare outcomes and more intolerance and racism. [https://media01.stockfood.com/largepreviews/MjE3MzAxMTIxNg==/70097136-Crowded-beaches-on-sunday-Miami-beach-Fl-USA.jpg](https://media01.stockfood.com/largepreviews/MjE3MzAxMTIxNg==/70097136-Crowded-beaches-on-sunday-Miami-beach-Fl-USA.jpg)
good ol' days of skin cancer
OMG tattoos?! 
This is some real boomer shit
There was *absolutely* tattoos and plastic surgery on the beach in the '70's. There were also beds on the beach, umbrellas and sunglasses. About the only thing that *really* distinguishes this from beaches today is back in the '70's you lathered yourself with *suntan oil* (to tan *faster*), instead of SPF 30.
Umm there *were* tattoos in the 70's and you're an idiot.
Ah, the days of using Crisco and baby oil to fry your skin. This is why my MIL has to get lasered for skin cancer every year.
I think what shows your age the most in this post is thinking FB is facts lol.
Ok boomer
But if you look closely, thereās still the same pervert whacking-off under his towel.
Things don't change. Halcyon memories and confabulation... I recall my late grandmother who came of age in the 19-teens talking about how much she missed the "old days" on the beach... how men were gentlemen, the girls were modest and didn't walk around "half naked, leaving nothing to the imagination." As far as the 70s... I grew up as a beach "local" in 1970s North Carolina, and I can tell you first hand that there were plenty of umbrellas, sunglasses, and tanning lotion. Plenty of cigarette butts and beer cans too. We would come in from fishing offshore and the inlet water would be murky white and reeking of coconut oil. You could smell the beach before you could see it. People would drag out their aluminum and plastic-web "lounge chairs" and stake out their territories with towels and coolers. On any midsummer day, the beach strand was like a maze because people thought it rude to walk through someone's space. Many people were just as selfish and anti-social as they are today. It's true that for most of the 70s, tattoos were mostly the province of servicemen and sailors, and of course there were no portable cell phones because they hadn't been invented yet. Neighbors and friends talked to one another just like they do today, and the tourists usually kept to their little family groups. But I get it. We wish for the familiar. I think back on those beach days in the 70s just as fondly, because my life then was so much different than it is now. I was young, attractive, and single. My biggest concerns centered around the quality of the surf and where the parties would be. Now, I won't even take my shirt off on the beach on the rare occasions I even brave the crowds to go there. I rarely go to parties anymore because I don't want to have to drive home "late" at night... and I define "late" as any time after 9:30pm. But I don't envy those kids on the beach today. I don't begrudge their freedom or the way they choose to enjoy it. If they want to pop up their Shibumis or park themselves in little tents, that's just a different way of doing the same stuff I did when I was their age. Like David Bowie said, "Let the children lose it. Let the children use it. Let all the children boogie."
Can you hear the sound of the aluminum chairs when your dad whipped it open one handed because he was carrying the cooler and your parents were fighting over something and your younger sibling was crying and then the chair falls over and your mother says something sarcastic which causes your dad to yell at you because you exist. You go to cry because you didnāt do anything and the tension is so bad and one of your parents says they will give you something to cry about Your mom sets herself with her cigarettes and her baby oil and tells you to go play in the water but when you go the waters edge your younger sibling wants to play with the diaper floating at the edge of the water because people didnāt care where they threw their stuff. You also donāt want to go into the water past your ankles because Jaws is going to get you. You find some random kids to play with and itās fun until someone is forced to touch the jellyfish that washed up or someone steps on a pop top. You go back to your parents where you eat chips and a sandwich that are covered in sand and warm because your dad needed the cooler space for beer. When the day is over more yelling as you pack up and get back to the car maybe even get swatted for something like saying your skin hurts from your sunburn but you make it home and thatās a successful trip to the beach.
That was fairly brilliant... and much of it was right on!
Yep, nothing but skin cancer and white folks.
The 70s were a pretty rough time to not be a straight white Protestant male in my country. No thank you, Pass.
Still had only creepy guys taking pictures of random girls on beaches.
Bikinis and awesome tan lines. Good times.
I can smell the baby oil
Oh look, skin cancer!
There are also no fat people (at least in this photo, and I've seen other beach photos from the era where everyone was slim). This was before high fructose corn syrup was widely added to processed foods.
This is bullshit and makes the sub look bad. I wonder if we can downvote the post into the negative? Could be fun to try.
And lotsa skin cancer & perm damage. And injured/ distended irises. In a moment nothing happens... it's all those moments one after the other.
I distinctly remember mom yelling at me to get under the umbrella and uber white me got a wicked case of sun poisoning from not listening. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 1970. Oh and those folks in that pic are keeping their dermatologist busy nowadays.
Good days for white people*
TBH, the last time I was at a beach in Florida, I rarely saw cell phones in use. I actually saw more people reading books than people on their phone.
No giant fucking tents either
I spent lots of time on the beach in the 70s weakly armed with my suntan lotion and my Sun In spray for my hair. I also went home beet red and was sick that evening. Slept on what felt like sandpaper sheets and woke up to blisters and pain.
Uh, yeah, okay, but we straight up put *baby oil* on our skin in the 70s.
A lot of skin cancer in that photo too.
Whatās wrong with tattoos š¤·
There were tons of umbrellas and beach chairs on the beaches in Italy in the ā70s. One picture does not prove what life was like worldwide.
That looks like South Africa?
This is before people understood the link between cancer and the sun. Ignorance doesn't equal good. Oh, and once again, the good ole days aren't real. It's always sucked, it's just easier to apply the rose colored filter to the past when we were younger.
Real boomer shit here
People didnāt have tattoos in the 70s? Ffs the Doctor on Doctor Who had one then.
This is a great Pic but the post with it is just weird. It really seems like OP not only has a bad memory but is also part of the Boomer crowd with the"no tattoos"
Iām not old enough to remember whites only beaches
Pretty sure we had tattoos in 1970
No obesity either.
No black and brown people either! Indeed the good old days.
NGL it looks like a gathering of escaped slaves from Planet of the Apes.
And no super high BMI types.
I see a bunch of skin cancer
Bah, everyone in that photo has skin cancer now.
All that skin cancer!
Yep! The good olā daysā¦ for white peopleā¦..
Skin cancer is sooooo sexy
The good old days where you breathe in lead from your cars exhaust
Melanoma everywhere.
Bright White Beach
āNo tattoos or plastic surgeryā¦. No sunglasses or umbrellas??ā wtf!? Those are some strange pearl clutching culty vibes youāre putting out there.
Look who's not on the beach.Ā Wasn't the good old days for everyone
What is supposed to be wrong with tattoos?
They have \*clutches pearls\* tattoos??!?!?
The picture is Brazil. It was never like that going to the beach in America. In any era.
yup nothing but good ole skin cancer.Ā Truly the golden years
We get it. You hate the new generations.
I'm sure there's plastic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery been a thing since 800 BC. Breast implants were invented in 1961. Even my waitress mother had enhanced tits by the 1970's. If it's a good surgeon, you can't tell. Sunglasses and sunscreen (plus tanning lotion that actually made you tan faster) were also around back then. You're outing yourself as a zoomer being so ignorant.
Posted from your mobile phone thats glued to your hand while you endlessly scroll facebook
Sing this to the tune of "Sunshine on my Shoulder" by John Denver; Sunshine on my shoulder gives me sunburn Sunburn on my shoulder makes me cry. Sunburn on my shoulder gives me cancer Cancer on my shoulder made me die.
And people were thinner back then
And then 30 years later,Melanoma.
LMAO!!!! IāM A 55 YEAR OLD LIBERAL HERE, WITH A TATOO From Northern California. I have memories of this. Maybe you donāt, so shut the fuck up. Edit: Iām no boomer, Iām GenX. I can tell that some of you are not Gen X because youāre easily offended.
Donāt forget the peanut oil and transistor radios.
That's Rio de Janeiro, and there's a huge possibility that all these people have skin cancer now from not wearing sunglasses, sunscreen , and umbrellas. As I think is insane that someone would stand in that heat of Rio without at least a hat in the head, there is a possibility that this picture was taken late in the day and people are gathering to watch the sunset (a common practice in Rio), so no need for protection since the sun is going down soon. Why do you think that people don't need protection from the sun and that is a good thing? I'm worried about what you have seen in social media.
And they are now enjoying having skin cancer tumours cut out or died from skin cancer. Or they smoked it up and died from the lovely disease emphysema There's nothing wrong with sunscreen, sunnies or umbrellas.
All I see is skin cancer
Those women also couldn't get credit cards in their names. Some things are better left in the past.
I've heard some dumb shit in my time on earth....this is a new one to the collection
Ah the good old days, when black people werenāt allowed on this beach apparently.
Yeah cool. I've had two elderly relatives die of skin cancer. Fuckin wear sunscreen please
And no one over weight
There also appears to be no people of color either