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Summer Splashback: Swimming Pools of the Past

One hundred years ago today—June 17, 1922—Fort Worth’s first municipal swimming pool opened: a vast circular concrete ocean in Forest Park. The current Forest Park pool was built in 1967. On May 7 voters approved a bond issue to fund … Continue reading

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