Inmates dressed as Santa Claus prepare to participate in an event ahead of Christmas celebrations at Santa Monica female prison in Lima December 19, 2014. (Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)

Actress Olivia Munn attends the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

US actress Zendaya arrives for the 45th annual E! People's Choice Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on November 10, 2019. (Photo by Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/AFP Photo)

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.

American reality show contestant Courtney Stodden is caught kissing a mystery woman on the beach in Santa Monica, CA on September 16, 2016. Courtney and the mystery brunette couldn't keep their hands of each other and didn't seem to care who saw their antics as they frolicked on the sand. (Photo by Canham/Splash News)

Bolivian sеx workers sit during a Reuters interview before the countrywide, two-week mandatory quarantine to combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), decreed by Bolivia's interim government, in El Alto outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia on March 20, 2020. (Photo by Monica Machicao/Reuters)

American actress and model Megan Fox nearly busts out of red silk bra as she celebrates 35th birthday with boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly in Santa Monica, California on May 15, 2021. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

American singer Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as J.Lo reacts after winning the MTV Generation Award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, U.S., June 5, 2022. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)