Lifeguard summer beach party, 1947

Photo by Peter Stackpole for LIFE

Joanne Woodward

Cool beach towels, 1956

Photo by Toni Frissell

adelphe:

Holiday 

Lilliput Magazine September 1941

luzfosca:

Allan Grant

Swingers, 1955 

Acrobat and actor, Russ Tamblyn (Top) on the beach with movie actress Venetia Stevenson

Beach date, 1950s

Barbara Browning

Starlet Jean Clark, Charm Photography magazine, 1955

Model/actress Georgia Lange (left), one of the ‘Goldwyn Girls,’ wears a one-piece black satin latex bathing suit, while another model wearing a two-piece suit poses behind her, c. 1947.