The Deep End: 1925

Central High is now called Cardozo. I found this article about the closing of the pool, and there is a modern day photo of the pool at the end of the article, and you can greatly enlarge the "Tradition of Pride" photo. Um, still scary--but the mosaic numbers are still intact.

Thank you for sharing that story-would make a hilarious scene in a movie!

I didn't realize they had swimming facilities in PRISON.

I'm going to assume the walls are a bright, cheery combination of pastel yellow and coral, the pool tiles are a lovely ocean blue, and the ceiling... well, we just won't look up.

Hey, the water is very clear. I do really love clear water. But I'm getting a touch of Inception-itis staring into this pool.

Lived pretty close to here. Used the facility for bathing purposes (to many people at home)and got in a good swim to boot.

Goodness, what with the reflections and calm, clear water….. it's hard for me
to tell topsy from turvy. One thing for sure though: I don't like this place very much.

My granddaddy decided to build a pool for all the grandkids in the late '60s - took a backhoe and dug a really deep pit (15 feet) and formed up the sides with plywood and poured concrete - didn't smooth or sand it or anything. It cut our feet to shreds. He didn't make any steps or anything - just put an aluminum ladder in it. A couple months later a neighbor's horse fell in and drowned. Granddaddy took the backhoe and filled in the pool -- horse and all. Still the biggest horse tomb in East Texas.

Depressing dip.

The swimming pool at Catholic U. in D.C. was also in the basement of the gym (now the architecture department) and the proximity of overhead beams posed the same problems when using the diving board. You had to gauge your "lift" very carefully.