Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like it down here," says Gregg Fawthrop, 18. "There aren't any parents, no one to tell me what to do. You can blow your mind, drink, do anything you like." "Down here" happens to be Ocean City, located on an 8½-mile-long island off the coast of southern New Jersey. But Fawthrop could just as easily have been talking about a dozen other beach communities in the U.S. where high school kids, college students and recent graduates congregate on summer weekends and vacations for sun, sand, suds and sex. It's all there...
Action. The crowd at any particular spot is certain that its place is the place. Thus Wayne Hough of Charlotte, N.C., keeps going back to South Carolina's Ocean Drive-Myrtle Beach area because "the best-looking girls in the U.S. come here-just look around if you don't believe me." Ed Horney, a young Los Angeles accountant, haunts Southern California's Manhattan Beach because he knows "it's the greatest place for meeting girls casually." If that's so, then how come Bob Serafino, a 26-year-old elementary-school teacher from nearby...
Vile Appetites. The place with the wildest reputation is Ocean City, which was founded by Methodist clergymen in the late 19th century as "a moral seaside resort which must be run in the interests of our holy Christianity." Ocean City still bans alcoholic beverages ("We cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing...
Visiting Privileges. Perhaps the ultimate place is Fire Island, that swinging, 33-mile-long sliver off Long Island's southern shore. Denizens of such communities as Ocean Beach, Robin's Rest, Ocean Bay Park and Davis Park have established such a free and easy way of life that they have had to invent a new language to describe it. GROUPERS are not fish, but young people who have pooled their assets to rent a house together for the season. There are BOY HOUSES and GIRL HOUSES but the MIXED HOUSE is fast becoming the most popular arrangement. Seasoned...
SNAFFLING means rounding up a group for a party at which BASH, a devastating blend of fruit juice, rum and Scotch, is the preferred drink. Bars like the Sea Turtle in Ocean Beach and Flynn's in Ocean Bay Park are good for snaffling from 10 p.m. on. So is the SIXISH, a bring-your-own cocktail party that starts at 7 p.m., seems to move of its own accord from one grouper house to another...