The Here, There, and Everywhere Collection-Finally, Swimming

Swimming lessons over, it's time for the test.  I'm guessing that no one drowned, but one can never tell.  Go back to the previous post and see the photo of all the kids lined up in front of  a building.  I'm guessing that they're all from the same school, but I'm also guessing field trip to a local athletic club.

So, as usual, click on The Here There and Everywhere Collection in labels fro more photos and more info on the collection.

Long Barn 2

In a nutshell, I didn't want to put eight photos in the same post, so I'm just finishing up.  I have no idea if this is the Long Barn Lodge that burned down or the one that's still there.

Swim Season

I've been putting up some of my many pictures of women, and while I've still got lots and lots to go, it's time to mix things up again.  With Memorial Day upon us, it becomes swim season.  Although, in this day, the whole idea of a season for things is becoming a thing of the past.  Anyway, it looks like a pool rather than the beach.

The Good Life In California

This is how I imagined things as a kid,  way back east, in coal country, western Pennsylvania.   I thought Californians lounged by the pool when they weren't at the beach, surfing.

Today's The Day

I slept late today, one of the few benefits of being under employed.  Anyway, I did what I always do when I wake up.  I rolled over and turned the radio to the all news station, and that's when I heard the big story. (At least as far as L.A. and California goes.)  Water  restrictions have begun.  Silly me, I thought they had already become law, but what do I know.  Anyway, those of us who live in L.A. proper have to cut our water usage by 18%, while water wasters in Beverly Hills have a massive 36% target to hit.

There are a lot of people out there who think it's some sort of regional thing.  People in northern California are the big wasters, no it's SoCal that's the problem.  No, let's blame the central valley.  Actually, it's a  rich, middle class, poor thing.  The less money you have, the less water you use.  Sadly, the rich folks in B.H., Newport Beach, and silicon valley, will probably face nothing more severe than fines for their water wastage,  fines that the wealthy can afford.  Personally I'd rip out their lawns and drain their swimming pools.

I did a with and without  the color correction button on this photo, couldn't decide which version to use, so I posted them both.  Written on the back, "Gottlund's 1959."  No idea where it was taken.

The Swimming Dock

Dated July 1931, during the great depression. Even in hard times people can enjoy the simple things, like a nice swim.

By the Pool in Sunny Southern California

I doubt this is a public pool. It's a little free of the teaming masses looking to cool down on a sunny day. While it's possible that this could have been a private pool, because of it's size, I think I'm going with either country club or hotel. What an age when ladies dressed to sit by the water. I suspect that the women in the top picture enjoyed eying the pool boy. Click on the second to get a bigger and better look at the trio in the background. The blond starlet type is wearing a hell of a swim suit.

The Pre-Steroid Era

I bet he was working on his tan. I was a comic book addict as a kid, and in the back of all the Spider Man, Fantastic Four and X-Men comics there were these ads for Charles Atlas. Atlas claimed that he was a skinny, bullied kid who took up weight lifting and the bullies left him alone after he muscled up, and for just pennies a month he could teach us all his secrets. Too, he got all the girls. Just like Arnold, and look where that got him.