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#21 Children are pictured above learning to swim during a class session at the Astoria Pool in 1940. The city offered free swimming lessons to those who swam at the public pools.

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#21 Children are pictured above learning to swim during a class session at the Astoria Pool in 1940. The city offered free swimming lessons to those who swam at the public pools.

New York City’s Swimming Pool: The History and Photos of the Pool Culture of NYC from the 20th Century

#21 Children are pictured above learning to swim during a class session at the Astoria Pool in 1940. The city offered free swimming lessons to those who swam at the public pools.

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←#20 Besides traditional pools in the city, there were also what were then called floating baths, like the one pictured above at 96th Street on the Upper West Side on August 19th, 1938.
#22 A super-crowded McCarren Park pool in Brooklyn during the summer of 1937; the park and pool still exist today.→

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