Back in the day, they used to let us
open the hydrants, and sometimes
they'd even bring the pool to us...
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In New York City, they actually had pools on wheels that would go around to the different neighborhoods where there wasn't a community public pool and park for a couple of hours so the kids could cool off.
It was hauled to various locations around town where city recreation workers would fill the pool with water from fire hydrants, leave it in place for the day, and then haul it away again to prepare it for its next destination. New York seems to have been a mecca for temporary swimming pools - the city also had several portable pools that would stay in one place for longer periods of time.
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They were attached to a truck, which could be parked on a street all day and conveniently towed away at night. “Swimmobiles began during the Heckscher administration [1960s-1970s] that literally took pools to the streets to underserved areas,” says the Parks Department website. It was more that trying to give more people the right to go swimming…this was life and death. A 1976 New York Times article stated that the city owned five mobile pools, which were towed from Randall’s Island to different corners of the city. These Swimmobiles probably saved countless lives, and the people had fun too.
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https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/swimmobile/
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