#ocean city

[lascitasdelashoras]

Arthur Tress - Boy in flood-dream, Ocean City, Maryland. 1971

#arthur tress #ocean city #maryland

[federer7]

Boy in Flood Dream. Ocean City, Maryland. 1971

Photo: Arthur Tress

#Arthur Tress #1971 #boy #Flood Dream #ocean city #maryland

[gracie-bird]

Princess Grace of Monaco shows off her new hair-do, called the "fall", as she relaxes at her mother's vacation home in Ocean City, NJ, in September 1966.

#grace kelly #princess grace #long hair #hairdo #hair-do #the fall hair #the fall hairstyle #hairstyle #1960s #1966 #headband #ocean city #new jersey

[gravesends]

Ocean City, NJ

#new jersey #nj #35mm #ocean city

[nickjames12]

my momentary ocean boi era 🌊 😎

#t4t #trans man #transgender #ocean #ocean city

[princesstokerxo]

Haven't posted myself in a while -

#girls who smoke #somegirlsgethigh #bikefest #ocean city

[slavandthings]

#naturecore #slavandthings #art #photography #ocean #beach #nature #sea #nature blog #shore #stone harbor #ocean city

[mugnamwerdna]

Ocean City, MD

#andrew mangum #photography #medium format #fujifilm gfx #fujifilm usa #ocean city

[518td]

ocean city baby 🖤📍

#photography #captured #image #inked girls #babe #tattoos #tattoed girls #inked babes #adventure #travel #ocean view #ocean aesthetic #ocean life #ocean city #maryland #inked #inkedlife #inked beauty #inked goddess #inked hottie #ink #inkedwomen #boardwalk

[radio-free-beth-sarim]

I'm currently sitting on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD. My family has always taken vacations here, and coming here as an adult is basically just me doing all the things I used to do as a kid, but also the things I wanted to because I couldn't... I was a kid. For a long time I just couldn't afford a vacation. I was bound to my job at the cost of my health. And that led to me getting sick when I just wasn't taking care of myself. Being as sick as I was, I wasn't sure I would ever come back here. There was no guarantee I'd recover, and a good possibility I would be dead by now. So I see being here as a triumph on several fronts. I can now afford to take a vacation, and I am now healthy enough to make it here.

Often I would entertain the idea that I was actually dead, watching the world from the afterlife as it just moved on past me. I came back to a world just similar enough to be familiar but different enough to feel like I'm out of place. I felt like a space alien when I tried to swipe my debit card at the supermarket the first time and they told me to tap. And I was just like "that works?"

I told the cashier I was "gone for a while" and they gave me a strange look. I can only imagine they thought I was just out of prison. I tell people now that "I spent five years dead for tax purposes" and that usually gets either a laugh, or a stranger look than the implication I was in prison. A win for me either way.

But returning to places after the passage of such time is bittersweet no matter the circumstances, and being on the Ocean City boardwalk is a good feeling but one that carries a twinge of sadness.

Arcades have always been my happy place. From the Dundalk skateland that had a Darkstalkers machine and an MVS cabinet to Aladdin's Castle where I spent so much money playing DDR, I always felt so at home and comfortable in those spaces. So being back at the boardwalk for the first time in so long, I had to go to the arcades here. I walked along the boardwalk, and man, it's different but in all of the important ways nothing changed. The weird t-shirts. The Thrashers fries. They're selling deep fried oreos now which I am sure is delicious, but the things that would do to my intestinal tract make me cringe in horror.

I stopped at just about every arcade on the way. All of them left me disappointed that they weren't like what I remember. It's all ticket games, coin pushers, or claw machine variants. If they're actual video games they're reworked versions of old school games like frogger or space invaders, or mobile games. I don't mean to sound all boomer about this, like these kids just don't know, that's not what I am complaining about. I saw a lot of kids having a ton of fun, and it was so good to see. The laughter and joy was a delight, and being in such a place is a wonderful experience. Somewhere among those kids is someone building those core happy memories that will make them love the place like I did. Arcades are an important space where, as the great Charles Entertainment Cheese once said, a kid can be a kid. And going to an arcade makes me feel like a kid again.

But being there was also a stark reminder that I am no longer young. The arcades I remember are out of fashion. Those games are niche now. They don't make it to America often, let alone the Ocean City boardwalk. I made it to Sportland, one of the arcades I went to most frequently. I saw more of the same coin pushers and ticket machines. The place changed. Of course it had. Everything changes. But I mourned those days. In a way I was mourning my youth. I found a single neglected Tekken 3 machine and made my Person play me in a first to five. They 5-0'd me. That's how bad I am at Tekken, I got 5-0'd by someone that doesn't play fighting games. But it was fun, and they were a good sport. I also let a kid beat me in Mario Kart, so that was cool. The kid had to be like 10-12. He was happy, and that made me feel good. I won my Person a weird sonic plush, too. I had a good time! A great time! But as I walked out of Sportland with that bittersweet feeling in my chest, I looked over at Marty's Playland, THE arcade I used to spend most of my time at, and I couldn't bring myself to go in. I need it to be just the same as I remember, even though I know it isn't. I need there to be a place unchanged by time, exactly as I remember it, even if it exists only in my mind. And I know that's not reality anymore.

Maybe this is what W.B. Yeats meant when he wrote "There is no country for old men."

But I saw a kid in an Electric Wizard shirt so there is definitely hope for the future somewhere.

#arcade nostalgia #getting old #i am old as fuck now #ocean city #sadboy rambling

[smontgomerybryan]

#mine #photography #photo #nikon #ocean city #OCNJ #sunset

[head-vampire]

Ocean Playland’s Ghost Ship dark ride (1981)

Photography by Granville Trimper

Designed by Bill Tracy

Source

#ocean playland #amusement park #80s #horror #dark ride #vintage #vintage dark ride #vintage amusement park #ghost ship #ghost ship dark ride #bill tracy #granville trimper #maryland #ocean city

[gracie-bird]

1955 photograph from the Ocean City High School yearbook, Grace Kelly was shown speaking to high school students on the football team.

#grace kelly #princess grace #1955 #ocean city high school #ocean city #football team

[gravesends]

Ocean City, NJ

#ocean city #nj #new jersey #35mm

[l1ttlepup]

Day 24 of 25 days of moodboards

Ocean City Boardwalk

I went here a lot as a kid and it's such a corr memory of mine. I wanna go again but I have no way of that happening :<

Sorry for being so off of tumblr. As I said in another post I've been really sick but I feel better and I'm posting both today's and yesterday's moodboards :3

My requests are open so feel free to ask for one. I'll make stimboards and moodboards just clarify which one you want!!

#petre blog #agere #cute #sfw interaction only #sfw agere #kawaii #sfw furry #sfw littlespace #sfw regression #sfw pet space #ideal vacation #vacation #ocean city #boardwalk #childhood memories #core memory #childhood #i miss being a kid #💗 #🩵 #💙 #🤍 #🩷 #🩶 #❤️ #💋 #🎀 #🌸 #🪷 #🌷

[ellaintrigue]

Spent the day in Ocean City.

#OCMD #Maryland #Travel #Ocean City #Nature #Beach #Aesthetic #Coast #Water #Chinese #Day out #Self care #Eastern Shore