  Goose Member Username: Goose Post Number: 56 Registered: 02-2005 |
not sure if this is just a figment of my imagination from when I was younger, but I seem to remember a mobile swimming pool used to come to our block once or twice a summer, fill up with the fire hydrant, and then it was like $1 to swim for an hour, the truck looked like a gravel hauler and you swam in the back, from what I remember it parked at the end of our street on Chatsworth right in front of Clark elementary.... i just recalled this passing a gravel hauler on the freeway this morning.... am i delusional??? | ||
Miketeevee Member Username: Miketeevee Post Number: 34 Registered: 07-2005 |
That would be the Channel 2 Swim Mobile. I remember the promos that ran in the 70s announcing the locations where the Swim Mobile would be. Pictures are online. Just google it. | ||
Hardhat Member Username: Hardhat Post Number: 225 Registered: 10-2003 |
At one point it was the TV-2 Swim-mobile, as I recall. | ||
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque Post Number: 52 Registered: 09-2006 |
Are you sure it wasn't a Septic Tank Pumping Truck and the guy was trying to make a few extra bucks on the side? | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1550 Registered: 04-2006 |
The Swim-mobile was operated by the Dept of Recreation and advertised by Channel 2. You were considered a big shot if you had the swim mobile set up on your block if you were growing up in the mid-70's. | ||
Goose Member Username: Goose Post Number: 57 Registered: 02-2005 |
yes, thats when it would have been, lived on Chatsworth until 1976...... that also recalls memories of the summer when the fire hydrants were opened up and some sort of attachement was set so the water sprayed 50 feet into the air.... | ||
Urbanpioneer Member Username: Urbanpioneer Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2007 |
I've seen the pool in use as recently as three or four years ago. It's a parks and recreation item and could be rented fairly easily. Don't know if they still have it | ||
Blksoul_x Member Username: Blksoul_x Post Number: 129 Registered: 06-2007 |
I remember the swim-mobil. It was free to the public...not sure how it was funded. I remember parents where skeptical about allowing their kids to swim in those tanks. The water was usually a brownish green color. The neighborhood bullies/tough kids were usually the first to dive in. There was also a play-mobil and a book-mobil. blksoul_atcha! | ||
Paczki Member Username: Paczki Post Number: 52 Registered: 02-2007 |
Hey Blksoul I resent that remark about the bullies and tough kids. I was in the swim mobile maybe in 1970 or 71 with my friends when it was parked on Ferry Street. We were a bunch of pre-teen white catholic school girls. From what I remember we really didn't do much swimming it was more like standing around in a crowded bath tub. | ||
Eaglelv Member Username: Eaglelv Post Number: 43 Registered: 03-2007 |
I remember swimming in the Swim mobile in the early 70s at the corner of Manistique and Essex. There were two stores on each corner back then on Manistique, one was in the basement of an apartment bldg the other a larger meat market. I lived on the 1st block of Chalmers and remember that hot summer day well when we all walked up and took a dip. | ||
Sbradke Member Username: Sbradke Post Number: 51 Registered: 05-2007 |
Yep, I remember the swim-mobile as well as the book-mobile on Sussex in the 1970s. | ||
Detroitjim Member Username: Detroitjim Post Number: 7 Registered: 02-2008 |
The portable pond was, until recently, parked in a fenced lot next to the Parks&Recreation repair garage @Mt.Elliot&Huber. It wouldn't surprise me if it has found its way to the scrap yard since I last saw it. | ||
Whittier70 Member Username: Whittier70 Post Number: 21 Registered: 02-2008 |
I remember the swim-mobile when I was a kid, when they left that day the workers left the fire hydrant wrench behind on the ground and as soon as they left the kids had the fire hydrant running full blast that day, as well as many other times throughout the rest of the summer. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1552 Registered: 04-2006 |
My brother would take dumps in the swim mobile. | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 204 Registered: 06-2007 |
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/ph otobook/swim.htm | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 93 Registered: 10-2007 |
I remember all of us throwing up pool water one evening after spending an afternoon in the swim mobile. | ||
Eaglelv Member Username: Eaglelv Post Number: 44 Registered: 03-2007 |
Detroitplanner Did you ever get your brother poddy trained? Hopefully things worked out. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1444 Registered: 11-2003 |
^is that the same as potty trained? :-D | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1553 Registered: 04-2006 |
for petes sake it was a joke! | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 612 Registered: 02-2006 |
Funny sh#*t! LOL <313> | ||
Eaglelv Member Username: Eaglelv Post Number: 45 Registered: 03-2007 |
The humor involved in my response however slight is funny, babyruth anyone? | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 582 Registered: 08-2006 |
this thing is awesome. someone should bring it back.  |
