Beach Health Class Size:8" x 10" “Swimming Against the Rising Tide

“Swimming Against the Rising Tide

"Back when Prussia was still a kingdom and Jesse James was robbing banks

pack their grappling hooks and raise a final toast beneath the ba-rump and hum of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive

while all around them

Beach Health Class Size:8" x 10" “Swimming Against the Rising TideSynchronized beach goers as far as the eye could see tone up in the morning summer sun on the sands of Ocean City, New Jersey, in August, 1933. Under the direction of Elmer E. Unger (seen taking a knee at the bottom right) calisthenics groups like these were a popular form of exercise before private health clubs became commonplace. When this published in the Mid Week Pictorial, The Times reported that these vacationers were performing the "daily