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Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. This YMCA facility served as an important social center within the Black Metropolis area, and it also provided housing and job training for African Americans migrating ...
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
Robert J. Roberts (1849 – December 22, 1920) was a body-builder who was born in England and moved to the United States when young. Roberts served as superintendent of the Boston YMCA gymnasium and was in active service up to within a few days of his death. [1] Roberts was a pioneer of physical training by experimenting on himself.
There once was an indoor swimming pool, but it was filled in years ago. According to Free Press archives, the YMCA of Metro Detroit sold the 140,000-square-foot building to Operation Get Down for $1.
Robert M. Love (born c. 1981) is an American author, speaker, Google engineer, and open source software developer. Love is best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel , with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler , kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify .
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