As Westporters look forward to another beach season, now is a good time to look back.
Alert reader/amateur historian/avid pack rat Fred Cantor unearthed a 1963-era aerial view of Compo.
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Among the differences 60 years later:
There were no docks in the marina (not yet named for Board of Finance chair Ned Dimes). A great summer job was piloting the tender boats that ferried sailors and guests to their crafts.
Wooden bathhouses sprawled from the brick pavilion to the wooden one. Only a few “lockers” still stand; part of the structure is now Hook’d. In 1963 beachgoers got their burgers from a concession stand, visible at the corner of the main parking lot exit and the start of Soundview Drive (where the volleyball courts are today).
Look at all that empty land around Compo Hill and Minute Man Hill. If only you had been around then, and bought some of it …
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