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York has driven them off. There were three price bathing houses. You could go to a certain end of the bath house and pay more - fifty cents maybe for one, a quarter for one and ten cents for another. I remember Bob saying, “We'll give them the necessities in the cheapest ones. We'll have a place for them to wash their feet because that's necessary to prevent the spread of athlete's foot or something. But they'll bring their own towels. They won't get towels free. They won't get anything free. They'll just get a sheltered place to change their clothes.”

To show how curiously correct Bob is, when Jones Beach opened he was adamant against people dressing on the beach. There was going to be none of that. There was going to be no changing of clothes on the beach. That was not to be allowed under any circumstances. There were bath houses and you were to use the bath houses. There was to be no funny business. Then people began to change their children's clothes. They'd put up a big umbrella to keep the sun out so that the beach police couldn't see what they were doing. They'd change the children's clothes, saving ten cents for a bath house. Then they would come to the beach with their bathing suit underneath a dress. Then under the umbrella they would take off their dress, shoes and stockings and nobody was the wiser as to how they were dressed. Gradually,