This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published June 28, 2013 and can be found here.
How's this for a summertime Fun Foto Friday? This is Robert Pernell. He's a sand artist. Or was . This photo was printed in the Rochester Herald on August 6, 1922. Robert used to entertain the crowds at Charlotte Beach with his larger-than-life creations...
As a kid I used to spend a lot of time on the boardwalk in Atlantic City watching the sand artists work their magic for tips. This photo of Robert Pernell and his pet lion brought me right back to that time in my life when anything was possible - as long as I had a pale & shovel, and endless summer hours to kill.
The World Championship of Sand Sculpting
is going on right now (thru June 30) in Atlantic City. Won't someone PLEASE bring this lost art back to Charlotte Beach?!
