Well they did, that’s sure, oh yeah. Yeah, the idea was part of the master plan, actually that, and it has become actually that, it’s parking. So that’s what, that’s what it is now. It’s my understanding, anyway. Read More
Look how cold it is.” I said, “Yeah, right.” And of course people didn’t, that’s the point. So it didn’t affect the zoo so much. No, it didn’t affect it at all. So what did you do with it? The pool. It was left standing. Read More
You didn’t convert it at all?… Read More
Now it’s, well they, you now I think it’s gone. I think they’ve got, it’s gone now. But in my time it was just left there, fenced off. Read More
But yeah, I mean, and just went on and on, you know. There was a whole bunch of people that always showed up at every meeting and boy, they were, they were a small number of people, but they kept at it and that’s what caused it to seem like… Read More
Most people agreed, they said, “Well how could you swim in there?… Read More
And guys got up, I remember guys getting up, “We should bring dolphins in there, and we could all go swimming with the dolphins,” you know?… Read More
And he was serious. Read More
He thought that was a good idea, you know?… Read More
And that’s exactly what they wanted. Read More
I mean, there was, I remember going to hearings, I had to go to hearings about the pool, and they wanted to convert it into an ice skating rink, you know?… Read More
Can you imagine? (laughing) I mean, it was impossible. It couldn’t be done, you know, it just couldn’t be done. And one guy, well they were all, anybody could say anything they wanted to there. Read More
I mean, I am not kidding, these are, I mean guys who worked at the park department in Chicago, I’m not kidding you, they were great. And I said, “Well, how did you clean it?” He says, “Well, you looked at it.” He said, “You looked at it and you’d… Read More
I mean, how could you?… Read More
It was salt water from the ocean. I mean, definitely was intake, salt water intake from this ocean. But you know, it sat there for, I don’t know. I said, “Well, when did you ever empty it?” “No, no, because it’s too hard to fill, takes too long.” I mean,… Read More
Why would you put a pool there?… Read More
No, I’ve never heard of a good answer to that question. And at the end nobody, there were like five or six people swimming in that pool a day, toward the end of the deal. And I talked to, I knew people who had taken care of that place, ’cause… Read More
And they said, “Well, you looked at it,” you know?… Read More
What was the Fleishhacker?… Read More
The Fleishhacker Pool was a, the biggest salt water pool in the world, that Herbert Fleishhacker donated land, well supposedly. He really didn’t donate land, he sold the land to the city. And they built that pool, and while it is true, there may have been a few days in… Read More