Back a few months ago, I was selling my house in Seattle and got to chatting with the landscaping guy who was making it look pretty for the sale. He mentioned he was from Maine, so I said the only thing I knew about it was that a lot of people seem to miss it, and there's this book I read that takes place at a fictionalized tourist park on the coast. He immediately know it was Orchard beach.
I guess there's only one famous theme park on the coast of Maine?
Anyways, we went on to have a nice conversation; he said he missed Maine too but the economy was such that it made more sense for him to live in Seattle where there was work year round that paid better.
Well...it's not a theme park; it's an amusement park. And there's been an amusement park in approximately that location for more than 100 years, so...yeah; kinda famous.
But what makes Old Orchard Beach really famous? Is that "seven miles of sand beach" you see in all the advertisements. In Maine, that's something special; most of the coastline is vertical rock.
Every Mainer in exile I've ever talked to missed the place; and an unlikely number of them return to Maine when they've retired.
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Date: 2013-07-28 03:22 pm (UTC)I guess there's only one famous theme park on the coast of Maine?
Anyways, we went on to have a nice conversation; he said he missed Maine too but the economy was such that it made more sense for him to live in Seattle where there was work year round that paid better.
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Date: 2013-07-28 03:34 pm (UTC)But what makes Old Orchard Beach really famous? Is that "seven miles of sand beach" you see in all the advertisements. In Maine, that's something special; most of the coastline is vertical rock.
Every Mainer in exile I've ever talked to missed the place; and an unlikely number of them return to Maine when they've retired.