When I was a 12 year old kid living in West Los Angeles. My mom and I would hit the beach almost daily during the summer months. She snapped a photo of me sitting on the back steps wearing a white and black swimsuit with open sides held together with crisscross bands. I also had a yellow and black suit in the same style. I thought I was the 'cats meow' in those suits, although they weren't really Speedos.
The was this really well built older teen who hung out at the beach and who wore a tiny black swimsuit. I wanted to look like him when I grew up. No photo, sorry.
Back in those day's it was illegal to wear a swimsuit in public that measured less than 5" at the side. Many folks ignored this law at State Beach in Santa Monica.
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