‘My little kingdom’

Famous amusement ride at Revere Beach in 1961.

“I held a memory of the old Revere beach in my mind’s eye, the Dodgems, the Wile Mouse, the Cyclone, the smell of fried dough and pepper steak, the families who used to come down here by the tens of thousands on a warm Saturday morning like this and spread out their blankets and chairs. It was my little kingdom, this three-mile stretch of sand.’’

— Roland Merullo (born 1953), American writer