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Coney Island was a seasonal amusement park and water park destination on the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio, located approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of the downtown area adjacent to Riverbend Music Center. One of its signature attractions, the Sunlite Pool, was the largest recirculating pool in North America and one of the ...
In July 1944, Viola Schryer took over management of the park after the death of her uncle William Kuhlman. [9] In 1952, a fire destroyed the park's bowling alley, theater, dance hall and roller rink, with damages estimated at $500,000. [10] Due to this, the park became strictly a seasonal amusement park, beach, and swimming area.
June 28, 1985 (): Stelarc performance piece "City Suspension", with a body suspended over the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1986 (): First year of the clothing-optional Burning Man festival at Baker Beach. Larry Harvey and Jerry James construct a wooden figure and burn it in celebration of the summer solstice.
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In 1909, the New York Times reported that at an elementary school swimming competition, the boys in the 80 pound division (age 8 to 10) competed nude after finding that suits slowed them down. a Boys had been skinny-dipping in open water for generations, which only became a problem when urbanization brought this activity more often into public ...
Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.
The City Council is mulling a law that would require license plates and registration for electric bikes and scooters — after 47 people... NYC e-bikes, scooters may soon need license plates ...
The widespread acceptance of naturism in many European countries has led to legal recognition of clothing-optional swimming in locations open to the public. After a brief period of popularity in the 1960s–1970s of public " nude beaches " in the United States , acceptance is declining, confining American nude swimming generally to private ...