In "A Love Story," a shorter version of which appeared in this magazine, the narrator looks at a teen-age lifeguard and thinks, "I love it that he, a child, is guarding me, fiercest of warriors, a mother, strong as stinky cheese, with a ripe, moldy, melted rotten center of such intense complexity and flavor it would kill a boy of his tender age".
Sam Elliott plays Rick Carlson, an aging (30!) lifeguard in Los Angeles who knows there's more to life than beach parties and one-night stands with teenage girls and stewardesses but can't bring himself to take a real job at a Porsche dealer even if that's the only way to win the heart of his old high school flame, the very, very, very pretty Anne Archer.
Although the New York State office of parks does not track statistics on the ages of its lifeguards, unofficial estimates are that about 10 percent of the lifeguards at Jones Beach and Robert Moses State parks are 50 and older.
He pulled on his first lifeguard suit here at the age of 16, and he is now in his 40th year as a Tobay lifeguard.
The old adage that age is a state of mind is a bunch of bunk, said Reggie Jones, who, at the age of 73, may be the oldest lifeguard in the Western Hemisphere.
C Does your yacht have round-the-clock lifeguard support?
As a lifeguard on the Rock river in Tampico, Illinois, from the age of 15 to 22, the future president saved 77 lives.
At the age of eleven, Penn signed up for the gruelling regimen of Junior Lifeguards, which included a sixty-eight-buoy early-morning ocean swim.
An estimated 10 percent of the lifeguards who work New York's public beaches and parks are over the age of 50.
Another person pulls the climber down before he reaches the top and the lifeguard goes into his tower – apparently to call authorities, said Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt.
