Scandal at the Potomac bathing beach---shocking pic from 1920.

[Kingofalldems]

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5218

[teach1st]

1. Great site!

Thanks for posting that. I had never heard of Shorpy. I could browse that site all night, and probably will. Lesson plans will have to wait.

[FSogol]

2. I wonder when was the last time swimming was popular at the Tidal Basin? n/t

[Kingofalldems]

4. I bet my mother and her parents probably swam there.

They lived pretty close, in Foggy Bottom.

[FSogol]

6. I did too, but beer was involved. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

7. 1974? Wilbur Mills' friend Fanne Foxe comes to mind. :)

Mills was involved in a traffic incident in Washington, DC at 2 a.m. on October 9, 1974. His car was stopped by U.S. Park Police late at night because the driver had not turned on the lights. Mills was intoxicated, and his face was injured from a scuffle with Annabelle Battistella, better known as Fanne Foxe, a stripper from Argentina. When police approached the car, Foxe leapt from the car and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin in an attempt to escape.[3][4][5] She was taken to St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital for treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Mills#Scandal_and_retirement

[Kingofalldems]

8. Remember that.

What an old fool Wilbur Mills was.

[hunter]

3. Check out what the men were wearing:

https://www.loc.gov/item/npc2008008201/

[rurallib]

5. cool site thanks