the ladies getting tanned on South Bay Beaches

those days of summer fun and South Bay ladies getting tan beside the strand with flirty eyes and alluring smiles cannot be forgotten...
the way the sun peeped out from a cloud
to tan a toe or finger...

WEST COAST BEFORE CONCRETE

BEFORE CONCRETE

COVERED UP THE

NARROW ALLEYS

AND WELL WORN

PATHS WITHIN

THE SOUND

OF PACIFIC WAVES

AND SURF, THREE AND

SOMETIME FOUR OR FIVE STORY BUILDINGS,

EACH UNIQUE AND

QUITE DISTINCTIVE,

MOST DESIGNED BY BEACHFRONT CARPENTERS WHO WERE RELAXED AND GLAD TO BE OFF THE LONG ROAD WEST AND OUT OF THE DUST BOWL WINDS. THE STAIRWELLS WERE OUTSIDE, DESIGNED IN A SIMPLE Z - LINE FASHION FOR REASONS NOBODY HAS MENTIONED, BUT IT HAD TO DO WITH SAND AND SHOES AND THEN, AS TIME PASSED, SANDALS AND BEACH BALLS, BESIDES, THERE WAS NO SNOW JUST SUNSHINE MOST OF THE TIME. THOSE OLD BEACHFRONT HOMES AND APARTMENTS WITH THEIR BACK DOOR PORCH AND BANNISTER PATIOS FOR POTTED PLANTS, THOSE WOODEN STAIRS ...

HOW SILLY, DOWNRIGHT NITWITTY, A SHAME AND A PITY, TO KEEP PLANTS AND GREEN-LEAFED BLOOMING AND BUDDING THINGS INSIDE CLAY POTS, BUT WHO AM I TO JUDGE THE JOYS OF MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS? IF THEY ARE HAPPY AT THE SIGHT OF FLOWERS, FERNS, PLANTS OF ALL KINDS WITH VINES HANGING DOWN UNTIL THEY TOUCH THE CONCRETE WALK, SHOULDN'T I BE SOMEWHAT THRILLED THEY LIKE THESE THINGS ALIVE INSTEAD OF DEAD...