The University of Pittsburgh pool was, until a couple summers ago, 55 yards by 25 yards. 55 yards is 50.292 meters, which is 11.496063 inches longer than 50 m. The University used to use a wood bulkhead of just under a foot to shrink the pool for LCM meets. They fixed it permanently to the "right" length two years ago.
Pittsburgh also is home to the somewhat eccentrically measured North Park pool:
"The swimming pool in North Park was once considered the largest in the world; it holds two and a half million gallons of water (compared to say 20-30,000 gallons in a modern city pool). In the '30s and '40s, before pools proliferated in homes and private organizations, the monstrous North Park Pool seemed a logical response to the "bathing" needs of everyone north of Pittsburgh."
www.clpgh.org/.../ppho1.html
I think it measures 50 m wide by 110 yards long. A local swimmer, Ronald Gainesford, told me in his youth he raced the 330 yard IM here--three lengths of this gargantuan pool, back in the days when butterfly and breaststroke were the same thing. (Oh, how I wish they would return to this approach today, so that those of us who swim backwards during breaststroke could substitute fly instead.)
North Park was one of many great pools built with WPA money following the last Great Depression. Pity that some of the stimulus didn't go to this kind of thing in our era.
The University of Pittsburgh pool was, until a couple summers ago, 55 yards by 25 yards. 55 yards is 50.292 meters, which is 11.496063 inches longer than 50 m. The University used to use a wood bulkhead of just under a foot to shrink the pool for LCM meets. They fixed it permanently to the "right" length two years ago.
Pittsburgh also is home to the somewhat eccentrically measured North Park pool:
"The swimming pool in North Park was once considered the largest in the world; it holds two and a half million gallons of water (compared to say 20-30,000 gallons in a modern city pool). In the '30s and '40s, before pools proliferated in homes and private organizations, the monstrous North Park Pool seemed a logical response to the "bathing" needs of everyone north of Pittsburgh."
www.clpgh.org/.../ppho1.html
I think it measures 50 m wide by 110 yards long. A local swimmer, Ronald Gainesford, told me in his youth he raced the 330 yard IM here--three lengths of this gargantuan pool, back in the days when butterfly and breaststroke were the same thing. (Oh, how I wish they would return to this approach today, so that those of us who swim backwards during breaststroke could substitute fly instead.)
North Park was one of many great pools built with WPA money following the last Great Depression. Pity that some of the stimulus didn't go to this kind of thing in our era.
