BY THE SEA. SEEING ATLANTIC CITY

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Panoramic views of city, beach and bathers from high point. “Atlantic City is the home of the Boardwalk. Each day during the season railroad trains deliver sweltering thousands.” Train pulling into station, passengers alighting. “Elephant Hotel, at one end of the Boardwalk, where you get rooms and the entire Atlantic Ocean for your baths.” Views of hotel, people entering. “The owners believe in an eye for a window and a tooth for a hat rack.” View of hotel. “The only crab in the party.” Crab on sand. “Not being able to bring the ocean to their back doors some people are forced to move to the ocean. But living in homes like these is not exactly a hardship.” Large houses. “This game is all right except when played with Bricks and Bottles.” Men and boys in bathing suits playing catch with large ball on beach, people on board walk and beach in background. “A prominent hotel, built strictly according to the well-known Turkish cigarette advertisement style.” Pedestrian traffic, hotel in background - views of hotel with towers with minaret tops. “It hardly need be said this is the Boardwalk. If young Mr. Emanuel had a nickel for every man, woman and child, who had walked over its boards he could buy up Portugal, enlarge it and make his summer home at Newport.” Views of crowded board walk, pedestrians, chair cars - beach and bathers from Boardwalk. “Life-size baby buggies help the picture -- and the gout.” Pedestrian and chair car traffic. “What romantic girl could fake a feint and be rescued by her sweetheart with a life saver around?” Two men in rowboat. “‘What makes the ocean so restless?’ asked the little girl. ‘The sad sea waves are angry,’ her fond mother said. Probably because they can’t go any further than the shore.” Surf against pilings of Boardwalk. “The End.” [1919]