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Under the boardwalk? Spent a sweltering afternoon lying on the beach in Alameda. Something about the eerily warm water and endless stretch of sand backed by (not uninteresting) suburbia made it seem like we were somewhere completely different, like Florida or Coney Island in the 1960's. Such a strange dichotomy to sit in the warm sand and look across the water at the skyscrapers of downtown. Through the haze I kept imagining the empty city of 1959's On The Beach and wishing Neptune Beach was still around.