swimming history
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Public domain imageSunlite Pool, the enormous blue gem of Cincinnati’s Coney Island amusement park, was built in 1925. An engineering marvel even today, this 3-million-gallon tank remains the world’s largest recirculating pool. But it won’t be for long if rapid community action doesn’t work. I’ve never been there, but I feel compelled to write this…
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DOE-Oakridge (1961). Overall View of Oak Ridge Pool DOE Photo by Ed Westcott Oak Ridge Tennessee July 1961. https://www.flickr.com/photos/doe-oakridge Accessed 10 January 2024. Public domain. In the summer of 2021, after more than a year of quarantine and masks and “safer at home,” we fled. We packed up Stickers, our trusty van, and hit the…
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