Smuggler's Cove

USA / California / Rancho Palos Verdes /
 beach, cove, landslide

Secluded beach.
From the mid 1960s until 1994 this was a popular clothing-optional beach. By apparently informal understanding, the gays had the west half of the cove and the straights had the east half. In 1994 a large steel sign mysteriously appeared, solidly installed in concrete, stating that nudity in this thoroughly isolated cove would no longer be tolerated.
No nudity observed on a Sunday in June, 2014
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Coordinates:   33°44'14"N   118°22'18"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago