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Author Alice Hoffman rmembers her summers on Long Island's South Shore, slathered in baby oil and baking under the sun with her best friend at the Malibu Beach Club in Lido Beach. It was the 1960s, and her mom would drop the girls off on her way to work in Mineola, then pick them up at the end of the day.
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The beach club depicted in "Aquamarine" is modeled on the clubs that used to dot Long Island's shoreline. Their names - Malibu, El Patio, The Sands - were exotic; the structures were not. These were home-spun hot spots where moms could drop the kids off during the day and not worry. At night, the Malibu offered live music and dancing - more for adults than teens - outside on the painted cement floor. In the 1950s it was the sounds of Tito Puente wafting into the salty air; in the '60s, the Cowsills; in the '90s, Marilyn Manson.
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