ARCHIVE ANCIENT CAMOGLI


011.                 The  LIDO              

Year:  1924 (?)

Photographer: Ferrari's

NOTES:

The Lido Bathing Establishment some years later. 

It's made always on wood and canvas, but widened with another pavilion. 

Even though there's still wide space on the beach in order to spread the fishing nets to dry, we note that the practice of the sea baths isn't more a prerogative of an élite of "well-to-do people with time to lose", but it's becoming an activity more and more popular.

Slowly disappears the use of the "take-the-sun cabine", more and more used like dressing room only and some deckchair begins to be used.

Evident also the new wide Walk to Sea: the photo shows the freshness of the "recent" realization. 

Also for this it can be presumed that this picture is in reality some years older than the indicated date: the electrical pole insulator, (moreover with the insulators of the old "Stirrup" model) can have given the dating error.

Camogli effectively was early provided with the electricity formerly in the first years of the century: an English portulan of 1909 for the use of the mercantile ships, cites as Camogli was easily recognizable from the sea because she was the single city of the Ligurian Levant Coast showing the expensive electrical public lighting system.