AUSTIN, Texas -- Imagine silent movies, a Ferris wheel, carousel rides, a diving horse show, a man called the Human Fish, a world-renowned diving baby, a 50-foot diving tower, a 70-foot slide, trapeze ...

When a group of white and African American integrationists entered a St. Augustine, Fla. segregated hotel pool in 1964, the hotel manager poured acid into it. AP Photo Summers often bring a wave of ...

Ed Davis would’ve been so happy to see the reopening of Perkins Woods Pool this month at 899 Diagonal Road. Long before he took office in 1958 as Akron’s first African American councilman, Davis ...

It was a behemoth: a swimming pool that legend says could hold up to 10,000 swimmers. If you grew up in North St. Louis in the early 20th century, it was the place to go in the summer to cool off.

Civic leaders gather July 20, 1968, to open the Elizabeth Bender Swimming Pool at the Jane Boyd Community House at 10th Street and 14th Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids. Standing (left to right) are Cedar ...

A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...

Legion Pool has been a staple of the University of Georgia’s campus since the 1930s. At the time of its construction, the pool was the largest between Richmond, Virginia and Miami, Florida, providing ...