Vanessa Labrie
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647 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Vanessa Labrie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was when local entrepreneurs constructed public bathhouses along the bay here to serve visitors to the beach.
Swimming in the sea had become particularly popular at the time, and it was viewed as a kind of natural medicine.
The practice was known as taking the waters, and it was widely believed to promote good health.
The bathhouses offered places for visitors to change into their bathing costumes.
These bathing suits bore little resemblance to the swimsuits sported by people on the beach today, judging by the old photos.
Americans in the Victorian period, like Europeans, were famous for their extreme modesty.
And it certainly looks like they used to put on nearly as many clothes as they took off when preparing to swim.
Despite these undoubtedly encumbering outfits, though, visitors apparently flocked to the beach here during the high season, much like they still do.
Old photographs from the end of the 1800s show happy crowds on the beach and in the shallow water.
It's odd, looking at these grainy, black and white photos from so long ago.
In one way, they seem a world apart from the present.
The clothing and less developed waterfront have changed so much.
Yet in other ways, those old scenes feel relatable and familiar again.
you recognize the same enjoyment and energy on the long-ago faces as you see around you today.
You recognize the happiness of the children in the photos, splashing in the black and white waves, the young lovers reclining on blankets on the black and white sand,
The people swimming or boating in the black and white bay.
And then you're pulled back to the present for a moment.
As you notice a pair of young adults walk by you, heading for the beach.
Watching them, you think that you are right.
even though so much has changed outwardly in the intervening years.
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