I remember 1973. I was 11 y.o. Had my first job working 40 hr.s 6am to 12:30pm for Arty Krause at the Brotherhood of Thieves on Nantucket. After work I’d head to Jetties beach with my friends. I bought a real nice Panasonic portable FM radio at Congdon’s pharmacy. One of my fondest memories is laying at Jetties beach, listening to Seals and Crofts’ Diamond Girl and noticing how some of the girls were =really= attractive in their bikinis. Something I hadn’t noticed so much in previous years.
Something about entering those preteen years when us boys begin noticing the girls.
I remember when I was 10, my older sister had a few good looking girlfriends. They would let me tag along to the beach sometimes in the Summer. The next Summer when I was 12, all of a sudden I realized how beautifully sexy they were.