Like the Hearst Gymnasium pool at Cal:
calbears.berkeley.edu/insidepage.aspx
33 1/3 yards, with dark tiles. When I was at Cal we used to have some of our Sunday afternoon 3 hour practices there during our heaviest yardage time. Strange but cool.
The first pool I learned to swim in and raced (6 and under) outdoors on LI was 33-1/3 yards. I'm now wondering if it was a WPA pool from what gobears and Jim said. It was at Club and not public, so maybe not. It did have gutters. In about 1957 (or thereabouts) it was buried and replcaed by a 25m pool that we all thought was a very strange length at that time.
There was (and may still be) a pool in Astoria, NYC that i think was 200m/yd long (tides??) by 50m/yd wide at the middle and 25m/yd wide on each end. It was only a few feet deep at the one end. Swam AAU JOs there in the early '60s and think the Trials were there in '64??
Like the Hearst Gymnasium pool at Cal:
calbears.berkeley.edu/insidepage.aspx
33 1/3 yards, with dark tiles. When I was at Cal we used to have some of our Sunday afternoon 3 hour practices there during our heaviest yardage time. Strange but cool.
The first pool I learned to swim in and raced (6 and under) outdoors on LI was 33-1/3 yards. I'm now wondering if it was a WPA pool from what gobears and Jim said. It was at Club and not public, so maybe not. It did have gutters. In about 1957 (or thereabouts) it was buried and replcaed by a 25m pool that we all thought was a very strange length at that time.
There was (and may still be) a pool in Astoria, NYC that i think was 200m/yd long (tides??) by 50m/yd wide at the middle and 25m/yd wide on each end. It was only a few feet deep at the one end. Swam AAU JOs there in the early '60s and think the Trials were there in '64??
