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naomikritzerI grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, a town which for all sorts of reasons has no public swimming pool. There are indoor pools at the high schools, and that's where I took lessons during the summer. I did get to swim in an outdoor pool when I visited my grandparents in Dayton, Ohio, during the summer; they'd always take us over to the Dayton JCC to swim there.
The layout is different, but the Highland Pool reminds me of the JCC pool. It's the style of public pool that the paper I linked to above derides as a "concrete postage stamp with a prison fence around it," but I like it fine. It has a big rectangular pool with a deep end and a shallow end; it has a diving pool, with two low dives and a high dive; it has a wading pool.
I don't know when it was built, but it has a 1960s or 1970s look to me. The lifeguard chairs look like this, and while this style is still being sold, the molded seats look old to me.
Anyway. There have been some rather dramatic societal shifts since I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s; it's nearly always a pleasant surprise when I run into something that's almost exactly like what I remember. Swimming appears to be very much like what I remember, but with better sunblock.
The layout is different, but the Highland Pool reminds me of the JCC pool. It's the style of public pool that the paper I linked to above derides as a "concrete postage stamp with a prison fence around it," but I like it fine. It has a big rectangular pool with a deep end and a shallow end; it has a diving pool, with two low dives and a high dive; it has a wading pool.
I don't know when it was built, but it has a 1960s or 1970s look to me. The lifeguard chairs look like this, and while this style is still being sold, the molded seats look old to me.
Anyway. There have been some rather dramatic societal shifts since I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s; it's nearly always a pleasant surprise when I run into something that's almost exactly like what I remember. Swimming appears to be very much like what I remember, but with better sunblock.
