In 1934, eight men were fined $1 each ….
… for bathing topless at Coney Island.
A year later, there was a protest of 42 men
who paraded down the beach … topless.
They were each fined $2.
The reason: It was declared,
“We’ll have no gorillas on the beaches.”
Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi
