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This category includes beaches, water parks, swimming pools, and other places where people can (or could) go swimming in the U.S. state of Delaware. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Baltimore, Maryland, had its first YMCA in 1852, a few blocks west of Charles Street with later an extensive Victorian-style triangular structure of brick with limestone trim with two towers at the northwest and southwest ends and two smaller cupolas in the center, built by 1872–73 on the northwest corner of West Saratoga and North Charles ...
The Jerusalem YMCA housed the city's first heated swimming pool and first gymnasium with a wooden floor. The first concert broadcasts of the Voice of Israel radio station were transmitted from the YMCA auditorium. In 1947, the YMCA was the venue of the UNSCOP talks leading up to the UN Partition Plan. [90]
The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York. [40]: 154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became mixed-gender in the 1970s. [59] The downtown Miami YMCA, built in 1918 and demolished in 1978, featured what was considered a modern swimming pool at the time.
At 16, winning 200 IM at '63 State Meet. In December 1963, Johnson won the 200 Individual Medley event in a three-way tie in a meet record time of 2:09.8 at the Delaware State Indoor Swimming and Diving Championships at the Central YMCA in Wilmington, and also won the 100-yard backstroke in a meet record time of 1:00.5.
Wilmington YMCA, also known as Wilmington Central YMCA or just Central YMCA, is a historic YMCA building located in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1929, and is a six-story, red brick and Indiana limestone building in a Spanish Colonial Revival style. It consists of a center six-story, nine-bay main block flanked by ...
Canberra Olympic Pool: Opened in 1955 in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, this was the first 10-metre diving platform tower built in Australia. Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre : host to the 2000 Olympic Games diving events and provides an ongoing venue for diving competitions with diving towers and springboards.
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