Sunday, January 12, 2025

For The Most Part, What Do You Notice?

  

 From the description that accompanied this picture:


Old Orchard Beach, Maine.  National Geographic 1977





73 comments:

  1. There are no fat or morbidly obese people

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    1. So the fatties are causing the ocean to rise?

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    2. Back then, most people cooked their own meals. Today most people eat in fast food places or get takeout. It is highly processed foods, and they are obese and unhealthy.

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    3. Well, they all look young which helps tremendously with staying slim and trim 😂

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  2. Barely any pudge to be seen! Slender folks, there.

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  3. No criminal ethnic types, as it should still be.

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  4. Where the fat people at?

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  5. No orchard, no phat broads and no sharks

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  6. Demographics matter.

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  7. No dogs. No cell phones is a given.

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  8. White people and no trash

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  9. Some surf but no boarders; more modest swim wear for most people. can't really tell much about skin color; lot of people., don't see any large piers. This is far south Maine. maybe water is warm from Gulf Current I don't .

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    1. if the water temp gets in the 60's we consider it warm up here

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  10. Can't see anyone overweight.

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  11. I don’t know a bunch of Canadians?

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  12. Everyone is so slender.

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  13. It's amazing! The fat gene didn't even exist in 1977, apparently.

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  14. The rack on the chick in the yellow swimsuit.

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  15. The babe with the jugs in the yellow bikini was a Friday night entry?

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  16. Growing up in New England, my mom had a number of very obese friends. Some had medical stuff, some were jyst lazy. One thing that none of those people _ever_ did was go to the beach or pool. No swimsuits were made in those sizes and back then the ridicule and shame for being so big was strong.

    So I don’t think that it’s so much universally better fitness. The fatties are hiding out if public view.

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  17. Surprisingly tan people for Mainerds.

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  18. NatGeo has problems with color correction?

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  19. No tattoos, piercings, unnaturally-colored hair, or litter on the ground.

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  20. As others have mentioned, everyone is much more slender than an equivalent scene today. Plus, demographically homogenous. And I'd bet dollars to donuts that any tattoos present are restricted to the males.

    A better time in so many ways.

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  21. No one is moving... They are all frozen in time

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  22. Waldo is not there

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  23. Most are waiting for the ice cream man to show up

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  24. It's obviously a racist and fat phobic beach......

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  25. One can actually swim in that part of the North Atlantic??!

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  26. It's been mentioned quite a few times but the first thing I noticed was NO fatties.

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  27. No beach defecators.

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  28. Is that Ethiopia- look at all those skeletal physiques...................................

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  29. no garbage on the ground everywhere

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  30. I grew up in NH and we used to vacation at Oldchard beach in the mid to late 60's. Parents pretty much let us roam the beach and the boardwalk freely as kids with only check in times requited to make sure we were still alive.

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  31. In 1973 some of my crewmates rented/leased a 3 story beach house. It was to be a monthly contract at off season rates, however the realtor mistakenly made it a yearly contract. That turned out to be the party house all summer long. That was when the USS Will Rogers was in Portsmouth for overhaul. Good times, fast ladies and wine.

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  32. I noticed the chick in the white bikini, and then zoomed in and noticed her friend to the right is even hotter. Alas, no results for either in image search. At which point I noticed my serious case of FFF withdrawals…

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  33. A few years later and virtually every nice spot in Cali is trashed by that portion of the demographic that is claimed to be very, very family oriented. Trash, literally. As in loaded Pampers, picnic leftovers, you name it. But hey, they'll do the work Whitey won''t do-or so goes the narrative.

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  34. It seems from current pics the sea level is the same today...I thought those buildings would be under water by now. I'll check with Al Gore...

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  35. The same thing you will notice in crowd photos at Woodstock - no obesity.

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  36. Americana in its hey day.

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  37. black people don't swim!

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  38. No fatties or dindus. Wish I could warp back to that time.

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  39. No lard asses, tattoos, purple hair or "POCs". Sure looks nice.

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  40. Also, glyphosate which has been connected to obesity was not widely used until late 1970s and corn syrup added to so many foods since then. Poisoned and fake foods make folks fat.

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  41. Actually, they look pretty scrawny.

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  42. First thing?
    Hot babe in the Yellow Bikini...

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  43. I was about ten pounds overweight in 1975. It meant I got awarded with the nickname "Super Chunk" (after the kid in The Goonies). It was very unusual to be even slightly overweight back in the 70s and 80s, and that peer pressure got me to shed the weight by 7th grade.

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  44. 99% French Canadians in that era, guaranteed.
    And good lookin' ones, too.

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  45. All chain smokers?

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  46. no nigars, cartels, shitskins or chinks in our white counties

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