As talk continues about municipal swimming pools, I thought this proposal from 1931, that was never realized might be appropriate.
Another one for the unbuilt files… From the Border Cities Star, August 12, 1931:
Come to think of it, I’m not aware of any municipal outdoor pools built until the Pool at Atkinson Park on Riverside Dr opened in the mid 1950’s.
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I'm going to guess pre-Atkinson conventional logic was "Why pay for a pool when we have the river?"
The Depression and war time probably made the development of such facilities impossible and/or unpopular.
The Lions pool in Lanspeary Park was built a few years before the Rotary Club Shore Acres/Atkinson Park pool was built.
Before the pool was built at Atkinson, kids regularly swam in the river in the same location.