September 03 2016, 23:47

An interesting business I encountered in Ocean City a week ago. Hidden deep inside there’s a parlor with carriages and various old-fashioned paraphernalia. You can dress up in any style or color you like: the wardrobe is right there. They then process the photo with filters, print it on textured paper, and put it in a frame for your wall. It draws a huge crowd. There are even two outlets of this chain on the boardwalk. I don’t know how people can love such things, but Ocean City, with its crowd and entertainment, very much reminds me of an upscale Yalta. Here, there are carousels with horses, slot machines, everything blinking and spinning, multiple kinds of music playing at once, massive crowds of people with kids, dogs, and umbrellas, no decent restaurants, but an abundance of fast food and quick shows. And yet people queue up at these spots and pay diligently.

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