By Nancy Knisley
As a result of the First Street children's demand for a municipal pool after their Dead-End Pool was condemned as a "public health menace" in 1938, the Ambridge Borough Pool was built in 1941.
As a result of the First Street children's demand for a municipal pool after their Dead-End Pool was condemned as a "public health menace" in 1938, the Ambridge Borough Pool was built in 1941.
If you had told me when I started to go to the pool by myself in the late 1950s that the pool was less than 20 years old, I would have been very surprised. Even then, the bathhouse looked dated and worn. But it didn't matter to the kids who swam there day after day, summer after summer.
Problems at the pool started surfacing in the mid-1970s, and things were never quite the same:
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Nancy Bohinsky Knisley grew up in Ambridge in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the creator of Ambridge Memories, a blog dedicated to local history from 1950 to 1970.
Problems at the pool started surfacing in the mid-1970s, and things were never quite the same:
Visit ambridgememories.blogspot.com to read this complete article and more.
Nancy Bohinsky Knisley grew up in Ambridge in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the creator of Ambridge Memories, a blog dedicated to local history from 1950 to 1970.
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