Comments on: Will you swim in pure water? https://clintonvillehistory.com/will-you-swim-in-pure-water/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: charles coryn https://clintonvillehistory.com/will-you-swim-in-pure-water/#comment-116 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:00:25 +0000 http://clintonvillehistory.com/?p=616#comment-116 How could I forget working with Mike Hagley (of North High football fame) all summer around the pool. I remember the Hasen brothers and I were members of Mike’s ‘scum gutter club’, and each day we cleaned all the gutters around the pools in the early morning hours. And dove for the change on the bottom of the diving pool. There was always a chlorine smell coming from the leaky pipes and valves under the walkway between the pools, where Mike adjusted for proper chlorination.

My fondest memories are of ‘jive night’, a tuesday evening (?) of juke box favorites for dancing during the war that could be heard all the way down to the Indianola theatre. We enjoyed it while sitting out in the back yard waiting for the house to cool down in the evening.

I remember Mike himself taught me how to swim in those wonderful early morning classes, and taught me water safety too. I lived at the pool, coming home only for lunch and for dinner, in those years when they were open until 9 or 10 in the evening. And seven days a week …..

What a kid’s paradise that was……

Thank you Mike Hagley……

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