ON THE BEACH, Part II

This is another shot of the bathing beach on City Island.

This shows the concrete beach with concrete steps in the background. Concrete, I assume now, so it would not wash away in the Susquehanna's frequent floodings and ice breakups.

To the right of the trees would have been the large, two-story bath house. As i recall it had a half-timbered, sort of Tudor look to it.

There was also a refreshment stand and an outdoor juke box on the back of the first floor and open to the beach.

For some reason I remember going there once when I was back from college and hearing Donnie Brooks' "Mission Bell" (1960) blasted across the beach over and over. Now I never hear that song without thinking of City Island and my Harrisburg and college days.

"My love is higher than a MISSION BELL,
Deeper than a wishing WELL!"

                                                      Photo from an Ektachrome transparency by Ross J. Care. All Rights Reserved.

This was an Ektachrome slide which had seriously redded out. It was also extremely grainy.
I did the best I could with it in Photoshop, but there's no comparison to the previous Kodachrome slide of me at the same location with the canoe.