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Lifeguards Win 1934 Competition

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The men who won a competition for lifeguards in 1934 would not have thought of posing in an array of T-shirts and colors. Nor might they, as they posed with their trophies at the Jones Beach Central Mall, have imagined women joining their ranks as champions of the surf. Below, the group of senior lifeguards posing for Newsday 62 years later, in 1996, totaled 1,285 years of employment at the beach.

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