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To: Ilaine who wrote (36743)	8/31/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We were down in Maine a couple of years ago. I wanted to go down to relive some "childhood memories" of Old Orchard Beach in the 1960s... You know... it's September of 1967... we arrive to find deserted beaches with seagulls crying plaintively over a rough ocean. We have breakfast with some fisherman in the tiny diner down by the local wharf, and stay in a rambling 3-story Victorian "guest home" run by two very elderly women, etc... Fastforward 30 years--------> It's 1997, and we're trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic as we approach Old Orchard Beach. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Driving down the "main drag" I can see a ferris wheel and some kind of rollercoaster looming on the distant beachfront. The streets are lined with side-by-side tacky little shops and kiosks selling everything from lobster traps to candy floss. Our car is engulfed by pedestrian tourists... men with enormous beerbellies, clad only in black spandex bikini bathing suits and rubber flip-flop sandals... making their way through the traffic on their way to the ubiquitous "poutine-wagons" along the strip. UGH......... We head south and finally find refuge at the Wells Estuary Preserve where the Rachel Carson Conservation Area is located. Nobody there but us nature lovers (meaning we were just about ALONE there)... We even found a big secluded beach where the only other people were a couple of locals casting for sea bass and another couple out walking their yellow and black labradors... That's the "Maine" that I remember...but I think it's on the "endangered species short list".... Two years have passed... perhaps it's even extinct by now....