The Massachusetts Medievalist has left the Middle Ages to recount an oral history session about Philadelphia public pools in the 1930s and 1940s. (I couldn’t find a good image of the Kingsessing pool from the 1940s but the fashion in this image is in the right time period.)
Update: another voice from "the old neighborhood" remembered that she and her friends hid during the :45 clear-outs in the locker rooms by standing on the toilet seats, thus evading the need to put their damp swim suits under the wheels of passing trucks (via Sister Jeannette, 12 March 2023).
Update: another voice from "the old neighborhood" remembered that she and her friends hid during the :45 clear-outs in the locker rooms by standing on the toilet seats, thus evading the need to put their damp swim suits under the wheels of passing trucks (via Sister Jeannette, 12 March 2023).