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The Queen Anne Pool (also known as the Queen Anne Aquatic Center) is a public pool in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Funded by the Forward Thrust initiatives in 1968, the pool construction was delayed for years in deliberations over funding and location.
It has hosted US Olympic Diving Team Trials in 2000 and 2012, [2] NCAA championships, PAC-12 conference championships, USA Swimming Winter National championships and Speedo Junior National championships. [2] Over 200 world records have been set at the center. [4] The center is open to the public for open swim, pool exercise, family swim ...
As of 2007, the department managed 450 parks, 485 buildings, and 22 miles (35 km) of boulevards, with facilities including 185 athletic fields, 122 children's playgrounds, four golf courses, 151 outdoor tennis courts and an indoor tennis center, 26 community centers and two outdoor and eight indoor swimming pools.
In 1941, Seattle pioneer descendant Kenneth Colman donated Lincoln Park's Colman Pool to the city of Seattle as a memorial to his father Laurence. The saltwater Colman Pool was built over the site of the tide-fed swimming pool that the city had constructed in 1925. [11] The lobby of the pool's building has a mural by Ernest Norling. [12]
In the 1920s, schools began building indoor swimming pools for purposes of physical fitness and swimming instruction. [85] In 1900, there were only 67 public pools in the United States; by 1929 there were more than 5,000. [1] Due to hot weather, the Englewood High pool in New Jersey was open to the public one day per week in July 1926.
The diversity and current popularity of the park was demonstrated on December 6, 2023 when an overflow crowd of around 400 people attended a Seattle Parks and Recreation community response meeting to voice their opposition [30] to a proposed children's play area and to speak on public record about how significant Denny Blaine Park—as a queer ...
The north end of the open park features Waterworks, a large mountain-shaped water fountain feeding a shallow texture pool, a reflecting pool, and a wading pool. The south end features the lighted Bobby Morris Playfield. The wading pool operates in the summer months from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. Other features: Shelterhouse; Plaza; Children's play area
The children's wading pool was a Works Progress Administration project, as was the drainage ditch and the arched stone bridge providing a path over the ditch. The wading pool is staffed in the summer by the Seattle Parks department, and operates daily from June 23–September 3, from 11 a.m.–8 p.m. South of the bathhouse is a lawn and fishing ...