Village Squire, 1977-07, Page 11Grand Bend has always been a place for swingers, one way or another.
GRAND BEND -It may be aging but it's still fun city
For some it's a tacky. tasteless strip of faded tinsel running
down to glorious acres of white sand and the endless horizon
of blue water. To others it's a mecca, a place to be on a
summer day: where the action is.
Depending on your tastes, your opinion of Grand Bend will
vary widely. It's the king of tourist towns along Lake Huron,
where all the pleasures and all the tackiness of other tourist
towns is multiplied many times over. Its population in the
dead of winter may be 820 but on a holiday weekend, it's a
small city with a population of 20,000 or more. No matter how
one feels about the place, it's obvious that people like going
there.
The big attraction of course, is the beach. But for many the
beach is only an excuse for being there. Particularly for the
young it's'the only place to be even if you never go near the
water.
Grand Bend is the kind of place that returns you to the days
of your teenage years when looking like Charles Atlas was as
important as being rich; where for a girl a 35 -inch bustline
was more important than a 125 I.Q. It's the kind of place
where physical attributes mean so much, that 1 you're over
35 you'd better either look like 23 or pretend not t notice that
you look as out of place as a rooster at a chicken bar ecue. To
the young, it's like the old beach party movies codte to life
with the big cars and the beautiful hunks of flesh and love
waiting just around the corner at the next take-out restaurant.
Generation after generation have come to Grand Bend for
the same reasons and though the arcades and the hot dog
stands may show their age, when the hot summer sun shines,
Grand Bend is forever young again.
VILLAGE SQUIRE/JULY 1971. PG. 9.