Swapmeet Finds #2517

in #photography7 years ago


Newspaper clipping, circa late 1940s. 13-year-old schoolboy Clark Trammell at the Cascade Plunge in Birmingham, Alabama. Interesting history of this now-defunct swimming pool: https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Cascade_Plunge

And here's a couple pictures from that Bhamwiki article:

In this 1940s picture, you can see the same building in the background as in the Clark picture!

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it's a fascinating story of those years

Swimming time ....

the peoples swimming pool.

amazing photography collection...

My first wife Judi used to swim there as a little girl - she grew up about six blocks away from East Lake in B'ham, went to Woodlawn HS. I must've driven by it a hundred times without ever going - it was kind of run down and disreputable by the 80's.

No doubt. But how cool it must've been in it's hey-day. The happenin' place to be. In Birmingham, at least... :-)

I think he Felt more hot...........