Revere Beach
As always, preparation was key to survival during Irene
By adamg - 8/28/11 - 7:19 pm
Cat took a trip to Revere Beach, where she reports she was most impressed by the guy packing a coffee for his storm surging:
Wherever you go, make sure you hold a cup with a beverage of some sort in your hand. without that, you are not a true American!!
Copyright Cat. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
There's always that one guy
By adamg - 8/14/11 - 10:13 am
Mike Ogden reports he was by one of the shelters along Revere Beach yesterday evening when about 10 teens started fighting. State Police quickly arrived, but just as they were breaking up the brawl, this middle-aged guy decided to take on the staties. He lost.
Formal beachwear
By adamg - 8/10/11 - 5:49 pm
Leslis Jones photographed a day at Revere Beach in 1920 or thereabouts. Posted in the Boston Public Library's collection of beach photos, which includes scenes of bathing beauties, scamps and crowds at Revere, Nantasket and other local beaches between 1917 and 1934.
Posted under this Creative Commons license.
State: Stay out of the water at Revere Beach
By adamg - 7/22/11 - 10:54 pmThat darned bacteria showed up at three times the safe limit at Revere Beach, King's Beach and Nahant Beach north of Ward Bathhouse, the state says.
Sand is their medium
By adamg - 7/17/11 - 9:25 am
Lorianne DiSabato took plenty of photos at the Revere Beach sandsculpting festival. Historygradguy watched the sculptors at work as well:
Busy evening for one photographer
By adamg - 6/10/11 - 7:23 amHerald photog Mark Garfinkel chronicles his day yesterday: High-school kids at Revere Beach, lightning (specifically, high-school kids at Revere Beach watching lightning), the search for a missing jet skier off Lynn and a shootout between police and a barricaded suspect.
Revere braces for trouble, well, Boston high-school kids
By adamg - 6/9/11 - 10:42 amLocal and State Police are on high alert: They've gotten word that many Boston high-school students brought bathing suits with them to school and are planning to head for the beach. Revere hates Boston kids with the blinding passion of 10,000 suns, so of course they're already closing roads and bringing in extra officers and prisoner transport vans.
Ironing bored?
By adamg - 3/12/11 - 11:54 pmCheck another one off your bucket list: Watch woman iron the sand at Revere Beach.
State Police investigate body found in the snow at Revere Beach
By adamg - 1/19/11 - 11:32 amThe Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the body of an Asian male believed to be in his early 20s was found around 8:30 a.m. today, "partially buried in the snow," by the South Bath House. "There were no signs of blood or obvious foul play at the scene," the DA's office says, adding an autopsy will be performed tomorrow after the body has sufficiently warmed up.
Investigators have tentatively identified the man but are withholding his name until after notifying next of kin, the DA's office says.
