Memento - A Picture Tells A Thousand Words

Tales of the Old and New

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Manhattan Beach Pier Circa 1920s

The same pier in year 2005

80 Years After
(Manhattan Beach, June 2005)

"No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end."
- Dan Zadra

Just imagine how many lovers walked along the pier or the beachfront with hands entwined? How many kids ran around, thre rocks or counted seagulls and have become famous personalities? How many have taken the same pictures and have marvelled at its magnificence to have withstood time?

I chanced upon seeing the old pic from a branch of Burger King and had to take the same view from the same pier.

It's the sentimental in me.

If the pier could speak, what tales would it tell all of us?

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Viajero was there too to take this sweet bench image.

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