Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What could be better than working on a beach movie in the summertime?" asks Suzanne Somers, the lead in NBC's tersely titled special Zuma Beach-the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. The star of ABC's sexcom Three's Company plays a singer whose records don't sell. To learn why not, she hangs out on the sand with the high school crowd and soon becomes one of the gang. Surfs up. Water's right. Beach Blanket Bingo, anyone...
...forget about your stomachs for a while and consider a trip to Nantasket Beach and Paragon Park. This trip involves a little more than the subway--you have to take a bus from the Orange Line to the beach. But it's worth the extra work because the each there is so much better than Revere (on the Blue Line, just before Wonderland). Paragon Park is actually an okay amusement park, but stay away from the antique roller coaster; the wooden frame that supports it tends to shake a lot when the roller coaster goes over it, and the boards...
...short, it's difficult to find a nice beach without a car. The best ones are up on the North Short--Singing Beach in Manchester is about a 45-minute drive from Cambridge, but the parking is a chore there. Perhaps the most accessible and beautiful beach is Crane's Beach in Ipswich. It's very big, so you can feel some privacy, and there's loads of parking--the only hitch is a $4.50 parking...
...although there is access to the mighty Atlantic, Walden Pond in Concord is the perfect place to reconvene with nature. You're better off staying away from the little kiddie beach area, but there's lots of places to park yourself around the pond. And yes, the stone foundations for Thoreau's house are marked off in the woods, on the far side of the pond away from the beach...
...French girls they want Cartier, Italian girls want cars, American girls want everything in the world you can possibly imagine!" Jagger has never said his stance was clear, though, and in the end he seems to recant his harsh irony when he sings, "Let's go back to Zuma Beach, I'll give you half of everything...