Piers are to English seaside resorts as boardwalks are to American beaches, but instead of paralleling the water they poke out at right-angles from the shore. These tall, many-girdered structures house vendors of everything from ice-cream, to tropical shells, from video games to tattoo parlors, bandstands to fortune-tellers. Most were built decades ago when millions of urbanites spent vacations on local coasts.
Seaside Stories
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