Sunset Pool Demo

Like to put all but one of are spineless ones in that big hole and bury them.I guess that means we get to walk in Doggy Doo Doo now?

Yes it is a sad day.They found a way to put the screws to us on there damn street lights.Dont care what anyone says,we the taxpayers will be paying for them.Our Spineless ones arent nothing but LIARS!!!!!! Love to be there when each one of you come through the gates of heaven.Oh wait,God dont like Liars and theifs.

When did council approve this?

had lot of fun there back in the day, im 56, and still remember being a tot and afraid to jump in the kiddy pool.  then getting into my teens and chasing all the hot chicks  my mother is 81 and she was going there when she was a child.. everything in middletown has tuned to sh*t , so i guess the plan is to turn this park into sh*t, dog sh*t that is...

They should leave that nice concessions building standing IMO. Doesn't look like it is in bad shape by the picture. Haven't been over there in a year or so. Could be converted into a place similar to The Holiday House at MUM or the party house off of University (can't remember the name of it now) across from old Fenwick HS. Got a kitchen and parking, right?

I agree with all. Sad to see Middletown disappearing one building at a time. Almost drowned in 1952 when I was a little kid in the kiddie pool bumper mentioned. It was separate from the big pool and you had to go down a few steps to get to it. Use to be 2 or 3 large slides on the nearest end of the pool as you look at 409's picture. (in the early edition of Sunset Pool) and a rickety old wooden bathhouse as you entered the pool from the parking lot. At the top of 409's picture, would have been the diving boards.

It's also entirely telling of the hypocrisy of those controlling the city that we have to demolish a pool yet can give the golf course a MILLION dollars over the last five years with not one cent ever being repaid.

I guess all of us poor folks should just take up golf, no?

Has anyone discussed what the annual cost is to just leave it mothballed for a few more years?  What's the harm?  There's probably no money to do anything with this land anyway.  Well, other than fill it in and have it be a doggie crap field.

409 wrote: Vet....I can't take credit for the 1960 photo. I borrowed it from the Library Lens site and should have noted it. If you look closely at the left side of the photo, the other slide is partially visable. This is how I remember it, with 2 slides. Also remember the two 10' and two 3' diving boards on the east edge. As Edith sang to Archie "Those were the Days".

I do see the other slide now 409. Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like a newer bath house to the left of the photo also. I remember a wooden one where you rinsed off entering and exiting the pool. Anyone remember that or is the mind going at 62? Yep, some of us older people keep going back in time to ease the pain of what is currently happening in the city. Guess it's too painful to watch as your good memories keep going to the dump in trucks. The younger ones here will feel the same way when their time comes and their memories start to die with "progress". It'll come for them down the road.

409 wrote: Bill wrote: Has anyone discussed what the annual cost is to just leave it mothballed for a few more years?  What's the harm?  There's probably no money to do anything with this land anyway.  Well, other than fill it in and have it be a doggie crap field.   I would say the mothball cost would be minimal. The largest mechanical problem involves leakage at the floor seams and a few spots in the floor where the concrete is thin and has disintegrated. This is all repairable. They were going to find $70,000 to demo this thing. This $70,000 would easily have repaired the problem and kept the pool open another year. But then again, golf is more important than a child learning to swim!

Ya know, I still don't understand. If the price to keep the pool open was projected to be $50,000 per season, and there are ~ 50,000 left in the city, why couldn't they have charged one lousy, measely dollar per person in each household, on their water bill, to fund the pool. You are charged for garbage pickup. Will be charged for street lights perhaps. Is two, three or four bucks per person, ONE TIME SHOT per swim season, too much to ask? Is this community really that poor as to not being able to afford this on a one time shot per year? OR, offer the people of Middletown a yearly membership. The folks who can't afford high-roller Brown's Run, Forest Hills, or Wildwood Country Club memberships could benefit from this, right? What will the poorer families do now for swimming? ..........OR......has the advent of home above and in-ground pools actually killed off the public pool interest and nothing suggested could save this thing?

In years to come, perhaps this community and it's leaders would have wished they had mothballed it after they filled it in. Sometime, down the road, perhaps in better times, given ideas are not necessarily new, just regenerated, someone is going to suggest a public pool for the community. And the cycle begins again.

ooooh wow cool beans on the pool pic  purdy sure i was there that day mom took us there like every day because dad worked at the mill and needed his sleep when working 2nd and 3rds, could go there and make all the noise we wanted  

thats looking like a  "ZONK" !!!! PRIZE on lets make a deal....

THERE IS THE POOL I REMEBER! Good times!