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Scandal at the Potomac bathing beach---shocking pic from 1920. (Original Post)
Kingofalldems
Aug 2016
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teach1st
(5,935 posts)1. Great site!
Thanks for posting that. I had never heard of Shorpy. I could browse that site all night, and probably will. Lesson plans will have to wait.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)2. I wonder when was the last time swimming was popular at the Tidal Basin? n/t
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)4. I bet my mother and her parents probably swam there.
They lived pretty close, in Foggy Bottom.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)6. I did too, but beer was involved. n/t
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)7. 1974? Wilbur Mills' friend Fanne Foxe comes to mind. :)
Mills was involved in a traffic incident in Washington, DC at 2 a.m. on October 9, 1974. His car was stopped by U.S. Park Police late at night because the driver had not turned on the lights. Mills was intoxicated, and his face was injured from a scuffle with Annabelle Battistella, better known as Fanne Foxe, a stripper from Argentina. When police approached the car, Foxe leapt from the car and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin in an attempt to escape.[3][4][5] She was taken to St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital for treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Mills#Scandal_and_retirement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Mills#Scandal_and_retirement
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)8. Remember that.
What an old fool Wilbur Mills was.
hunter
(38,313 posts)3. Check out what the men were wearing:
rurallib
(62,416 posts)5. cool site thanks