The Kasino Hotel and the beach at Zoppot, Free City of Danzig. Zoppot was part of the Free City of Danzig from 1920 to 1939. The photographer is looking north-west-by-north from the shore end of the pier showing the hotel, which was opened in 1927, on the left. A large number of basket seats are scattered about the beach with low sand embankments round each one. A restaurant and dance hall complex is further along the beach with a large water slide and a small boat jetty projecting into the water.