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This photo wasn't actually taken in West Palm Beach. West Palm Beach only frontages intracoastal waterways, not the Atlantic Ocean as this photo shows. The island of Palm Beach stands between West Palm Beach and the ocean along its entire coast. That's why it's called WEST Palm Beach. Along the entire ocean horizon that we can see there are no land masses visible. The only land visible is the beach itself. There is no view from a West Palm Beach coast that one cannot see the west Coast of the island of Palm Beach easily and everywhere. Moreover, given that Palm Beach was in 1910 primarily a winter resort for very rich people, and taking into account the dress, chairs, ropes, etc., it seems much more likely that this photo would have been taken at or very near to those resorts on the island; not the city of West Palm Beach, on the wrong side of Lake Worth and near the railroad where all the people that couldn't afford to dress this fancy lived.