Order K2006, etc at Amazon.

[polyvue]

Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

A compelling read that surveys the sociology of public swimming in the United States, and notably captures the reasons behind the advent of racial segregation in aquatic facilities, and its demise. It's an academic book, yet written without obscurant language (in other words, it's easy to read!)

The book has a regional bias (as I recall -- I read the book several years ago, there is no or scant discussion of west coast facilities, including the famous Sutro baths in San Francisco) but it’s a great addition to pool libraries replete with coffee table monographs and little else of substance.

[PoolDoc]

.............................bump

[waterbear]

Ben,
Why not sticky this thread?

[Watermom]

Evan,
I had the same thought. Done.

[PoolDoc]

Stick-ing it puts it at the top of the list, but doesn't make it display first when someone is browsing the forums from a higher level.

Anyhow, I need a keyboard -- this one has keys that are 'sticking' and the V and M are incognito -- and this link will let me try things out. Supposed to be a good cheap keyboard (USB) if you need one, too.

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PoolDoc

[Watermom]

That's why we'll keep bumping it back up to the top like we do on a couple other important threads.

[Spensar]

The links to Amazon are not displaying properly. All I see is the raw hypertext.

[waterbear]

Me too. Houston we have a problem!

[Watermom]

Ben knows about this. But, for the time being, you can copy and paste the link into a browser window and get there that way.

[Sentient]

Ben knows about this. But, for the time being, you can copy and paste the link into a browser window and get there that way.

That didn't work for me. I had to trim down to just the right part of the hypertext to get it to work. If the board is having trouble with the hypertext, maybe someone should just change it to a simple clickable link until the fancy stuff works again.

I ordered about $100 worth of stuff yesterday, I hope the piece of the hypertext I pasted included enough information for Amazon to give the forum the credit it deserves.