I never did get used to that.
We loved the area but of course we were young, filled with life, loved exploring, and everything was 'cool' then.
I went back in 1993, (we lived there in 1971), and visited our old apartment. The Buffalo's were still there.. (that was the name of the family that lived in the apartment next to us), AND our Landlady, but her husband had passed away. The apartment complex still shows up on Google Earth... but it was very old in 1971.
We were not there during the summer months, (school break time), so we never saw the 'beach crowd' or any of the people who had vacation beach homes there, (wow, some of those houses). I can only imagine how that place was hopping during that time.