photo #1167342

Beachgoers at Daytona, Florida back in 1904. Hitting the beach in the early 20th century was a lot like hitting the beach today. You and your friends dressed in your finest apparell and brought your carts out to the sand to watch the waves, of and if you showed even a little skin you were thought of as completely immoral.At the time that this photo was taken anyone who stripped down to a swimsuit that would be considered conservative by today's standards would either be ticketed or just sneered at like a bedraggled hussy. Within a few decades this overly clothed and buttoned up idea of beach going had gone the way of the Dodo, but throughout the 1900s the beach was basically an Amish paradise.