Life-size sand sculptures once lined the Atlantic City boardwalk
Sand sculpture buskers worked for tips by the dozens until a 1944 hurricane wiped them out.
Sand men were buskers who sculpted the beach just off the Atlantic City boardwalk and worked for tips. They built in high relief out of saltwater-soaked sand, life-size and bigger: a slain soldier beside his fallen horse, Christ on the cross, lions and snakes, a m…
