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Re: RecDiffs 270.
SURELY “bathroom” refers to a room with a bath in it? And the idea was a lot of poorer households didn’t have actual baths in their house, so instead the kids could swim without clothes as a substitute for a bath?
Unless this was all a bit? I truly can’t tell!
This Facebook post (sorry if it has already been cited) has many (fond!) NYC reminiscences and a photo (nsfw? I guess but tasteful) …
One comment mentions diving to the bottom of the pool to fetch old shoes, which seems to contradict the claim this was all for sanitary reasons https://www.facebook.com/groups/67844220951/posts/10161396451395952/
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Back in the Bronx | Nude swimming was required for boys at New York City public schools in the 1950s | FacebookNude swimming was required for boys at New York City public schools in the 1950s! I went to Evander Childs High School in the Bronx for summer fun school in the third grade around 1951 where the...
A comment on the FB post mentions they showered before going into the pool so I suppose the kids were clean but suits might not be a Also, it sounds like easy pool chlorination was not widespread until mid century. https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~olsenk/pool.htm
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