Have watched this movie several times and enjoyed each time. I did not believe the crowd scene at the beach until I googled it and discovered it was a true representation of it.
https://www.coaster101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/coney-island-1940.jpg
That’s a lot of people at the beach. No similar scene could be found these days. There’d be a lot more obesity, there’d be fights, and the boardwalk would probabaly collapse.
Precisely what many of us in the southwest imagine the east coast to be like.
