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“Good Times In Hel - THE GROUP” by Krzysztof Pasierbiewicz, is an uniquely exclusive album edition in
which the author attempts to recreate, in words and old photographs, the unique atmosphere of the health resorts of Hel from the post-war period to the present day.
Pasierbiewicz has recorded in TIME the extraordinary social phenomenon created by the legendary GROUP, comprised of now charismatic cult-figures, who came to Jastarnia for decades, and who formed on the Hel Peninsula a completely new school of refined entertainment for the elite of this exclusive resort.
The contents of the book depict this shrine, no longer existent, wrapped in legend, where the cream of society of the last half century would gather. The reader can also find places where it is still possible to encounter that very special climate, resistant to the passage of TIME, of those wonderful years.
A reviewer writes: “Good Times In Hel is a moving account of a group of friends united in a timeless love of Jastarnia, sea, sun, sandy beaches and, most of all, in a desire for freedom, spontaneous fun and a carefree life in defiance of the everyday greyness and ordinariness.” This colourful review of the golden people from the Beatles’ era: artists, ladies men, cardsharps, revellers, as well as, and perhaps most of all, the so-called “Sunspecs”, those brilliant, arty people who made their way to the Hel Peninsula”.
The author’s main reason for writing this book was to give his beloved daughter a printed record relating values, which, despite the passage of TIME, are resistant to change. Equally important was the desire to pass on to her a document in a language, the Polish language, which her internet generation is slowly ceasing to use.
No less important was a modest attempt to capture in TIME that ubiquitous and unforgettable climate of the good times in Hel in the sixties. That strange and wonderful carefree state of people living for the moment, having nothing to lose and unafraid of what tomorrow might bring.
Published: January 03, 2008
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