Word: nantasket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nahant, Nantasket, and Revere Beaches. These beaches hang on the city limits of Boston, in Nahant. Hull and Revere, respectively. They are MDC maintained, and they look it. On a busy weekend, most people don't bother to police their bad instincts, so what you have is a lot of trash. Revere and Nantasket have always been adjacent to amusement parks, and the hush of the waves is complimented by traffic noise and the sound of nearby mechanical thrills. Revere Beach, however, is beginning to clean up its act--the amusements are going elsewhere, and the beach is expected...
...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...
...cheap thrills, there is only one place to go--Paragon Park at Nantasket Beach on the South Shore. It has a not very bad roller coaster, although those who fondly remember vomiting at Palisades Amusement Park in Fort Lee, N.J., will not be impressed. This place is surrounded by penny arcades, bad food, and denizens of all varieties. Enjoy...
...best amusement park around is Paragon Park in Nantasket, and the best time to go there is Tuesday nights, when there's a $2.95 fiat rate for as much amusement as you can handle. The deal doesn't include rides on the new Indy 500 out the Indy--a new-fangled car-racing machine--should be avoided anyway in favor of Bumper Cars, the best thing at the Park...
...RABBI) IRA A. KORFF Nantasket, Mass...