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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 ] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian ...
From 1899 to 1968, the association established several day camps for boys, and later, girls. Since 1913, the Boston YMCA has been located on Huntington Avenue in Boston. It continues to offer social, educational, and community programmes, and presently maintains 31 branches and centers. The historical records of the Boston YMCA are located in ...
A swim lesson in a YMCA, 1915. The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York. [12]: 154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became mixed-gender in the 1970s. [38] The downtown Miami YMCA, built in 1918 and demolished in 1978, featured what was considered a modern ...
The Wayne County YMCA continues to plan a relocation. The preliminary design calls for a 50,000-square-foot building with an indoor pool.
A $5 million outdoor pool area at the Chasco Family YMCA in Round Rock will give the community a new place to play and cool off.
About 400 first-grade students in Plain Local schools are getting free swim lessons through a partnership with the YMCA of Central Stark County.
An Olympic-size swimming pool (first used at the 1924 Olympics) is a pool that meets FINA's additional standards for the Olympic Games and for world championship events. It must be 50 by 25 m (164 by 82 ft) wide, divided into eight lanes of 2.5 m (8.2 ft) each, plus two areas of 2.5 m (8.2 ft) at each side of the pool.
As of 2021, there are twenty two branches throughout the five boroughs, including the McBurney Y that was the inspiration for the Village People's song and the West Side YMCA. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] YMCA of Greater New York is affiliated with YMCA in America and also operated Camp Talcott , a more than century-old sleepaway camp that hosted more ...