Black and white photos show unidentified boys at 1930s and 40s summer
In 1885, the Brooklyn YMCA opened America's first recreational indoor pool and required men to swim nude. Wool swimsuits were potential traps for disease and bacteria, and fibers clogged the.
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From what I hear, the nude swimming era as a whole (not just YMCA) pretty much ended in the 70s--although it was probably a long decline from the 60s. (There was someone who suggested nude swimming to keep the pool cleaner, and they stopped making that suggestion in the early 60s. But, of course, it took years for the practice to fully fade away.)
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md2000 September 20, 2010, 6:09pm 39. I recall swimming at YMCA day camp in Toronto involved hiking to some building where the rquirement was nude swimming. The excuse at the time was "clog the filters with lint" which seemed BS since every major public pool in the city was co-ed (and of course NOT nude).
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The experience most men had of swimming naked in school and the YMCA eased the transition to naked interaction in the military as millions were drafted or volunteered for service during the war. Photo of U.S. Marines on Guadacanal in 1943 bathing and having fun with a makeshift water slide.
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Nude swim classes for males were once common at U.S. public pools The
Crotalus November 10, 2006, 11:53am 5 I graduated from a Catholic high school for boys in Maryland in 1972. We had to swim nude as part of gym class, but the swimming team wore trunks for their practices. There was speculation among the students about the reasons for this, but I never heard an official explanation.
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Nude swim classes for males were once common at U.S. public pools - The Washington Post Did the University of Maryland once make men swim nude in swim class? Perspective by John Kelly.
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According to my research males were once required to swim in the nude. The American Public Health Association mandated nude swimming from 1926 until 1962, and thousands of high schools around the country enforced the tradition.. The first recreational indoor pool in America was a YMCA in Brooklyn New York in 1885.Because swimsuits back then were made of wool, and their fibers would clog the.
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The YMCA and nudity : r/CommunalShowers r/CommunalShowers • 1 yr. ago FreeLush The YMCA and nudity Any old-timers remember when the Y was not just open showers but nudity was acceptable /expected elsewhere? Stories about swimming nude at the Y are common. I think I'm just young enough (56) that I missed that.
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[1] : 1 For the first decades of the 20th century, male nude swimming was associated with a trope of the "old swimming hole" as representing childhood innocence and adult masculinity. In their own classes, nudity was rare for girls based upon an assumption of modesty, but might include young children.
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Harrisburg, Penna, YMCA female members Eileen Barrett and Linda McKenna challenge 'nude swim,' time-honored policy of closing swimming pool to gen membership so that adult males can swim without.
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@LarsBosteen it does have to do with hygiene. Fibre from swimwear would clog up the filters, and because bacteria and fungi can easily multiply in dirty swimwear.
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The following are historic photographs obtained from publications and the Internet depicting the common experience of how boys and young men swam in public schools, associations like the YMCA and.
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Swimming pools were introduced by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in the 1880s. In the following decades, the Y began offering their "Learn-to-Swim" classes, which was an.
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Going back in time, however, swimming was nude from the time of the building of the very first YMCA pools (Boston 1885) because that was simply the practice.
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The Dayton Y is a substantial facility with several gyms and a large pool. Most swimming was nude except for family night on Friday evenings, when there were swim meets, or for a few classes where females were admitted on occasion. Later I joined the Y as a youth member, which cost $20 per year.