1) People DRESSED UP to go to the beach!
2) The crowds...EVERYBODY went to the beach!
Must have been nothing on TV that night.
It’d be a few years before FDR would be on the tube talking about the great depression.
I’m citing the great TV historian Joe Biden.
A city with millions of people jammed into close quarters... with no a/c and 90 degrees in the shade. The beach would sound good to me too.