A Look Back at Washington’s Old Tidal Basin Bathing Beach

Take a nostalgic look back at Washington's old Tidal Basin bathing beach and imagine what it was like to swim there in 1920. Read more to find out!

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These ladies look like they’re having a great time hanging out at the old Tidal Basin bathing beach. That would be an absolutely nasty place to swim today.

Thanks Shorpy!

Posted in Faces & Places of Yesterday
and tagged 1920s, Tidal Basin, Washington Bathing Beach

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