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swimming

Bathing Suit Police at the Tidal Basin

October 22, 2023February 13, 2023 by ghostsofdc
Beach Policeman (1922)

The photograph is Washington police officer Bill Norton measuring the distance between the knee and the swimsuit.

Categories Faces & Places of Yesterday Tags Metropolitan Police Department, swimming, Tidal Basin, Washington Bathing Beach 8 Comments

These Boys Look Like They’re Having the Time of Their Lives: A Look Back at Swimming in the Reflecting Pool in the 1920s

December 7, 2021July 30, 2014 by ghostsofdc
July 7th, 1926

Take a look back at a time when swimming in the Reflecting Pool was permitted, even though it wasn’t strictly enforced. Learn why Congress failed to appropriate money for District pools at the time.

Categories Faces & Places of Yesterday Tags 1920s, swimming 2 Comments
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