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Smiling Couple, Blackpool, England, 1998

Pressed and polished, a suited commuter seems to shield his eyes from an embracing couple below. Government jobs, nightclubs, golf courses, and beaches draw an eccentric mix of pierced hipsters and buttoned-up conservatives to the seaside town of Blackpool in England's Lancashire county. Blackpool emerged as a major tourist destination in the 20th century, though it still retains its retro charm.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Jolly Good Time in Blackpool, England," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Tomasz Tomaszewski