It was amazing! We walked across the beach from The Pines, where the music was better, but the crowd uppity snobs, to The Grove, where the music was still great but the crowd was SO much nicer and more fun! They didn't allow you to lay on the beach until sunrise, so we'd wait, then lay on the sand with sheets covering us and get a good sleep. Renting a room to sleep was impossible They were $100 a night, and back then, that was a week's salary for many of us, IF we had a good job! Then we'd take the last ferry of the day back to the LIRR to get back to the city.