A sick California sea lion with possible domoic acid poisoning is rescued to be evaluated by volunteers from CIMWI (Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute) in Santa Barbara, California, on March 25, 2025. Over a hundred sea lions, dolphins and other marine mammals, including birds, have been sickened by domoic acid poisoning from algal blooms in Southern California since February, US media reported. (Photo by David Swanson/AFP Photo)

A woman takes part in a “Brave Run” competition in Minsk October 4, 2015. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

A participant competes in the “Farinato Race” winter extreme run competition in Gijon, northern Spain, January 31, 2016. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

A rickshaw man runs under the blooming cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Sunday, March 29, 2015. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)

A group of children run into a fountain on the South Bank on August 1, 2011 in London, England. Temperatures in the capital reached around 27 degress today and are expected to hit 30 degrees by Wednesday. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Participants take part in an extreme run “Bison race” near the town of Logoisk, Belarus September 17, 2016. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

People enjoy the color run in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China on May 29, 2022. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

With temperatures soaring and summer well underway, countless Americans will be spending their Independence Day weekend at the beach. Here we revisit some classic images from the turn-of-the-century to the 1930's of vacations by the sea, from Coney Island to Santa Monica.