Now you know why people around here refer to Bell Rd as Bourne's version of King Richard's Faire
Spend a summer there and you'll see everything--multiple times.
It's been that way for as long as I can remember. Back in the 60s, when I was a kid, many of the old bread-wagon buggy crew fished there when the beaches were slow, and some of those guys were real hoots. Let's just say that attitudes about drinking in public were a lot different then.