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Created on: 01/14/10 12:07 AM Views: 6180 Replies: 4
Southside Pool
Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010 07:07 PM

Any memories out there of Southside.  I have so many I would be here all night.  The Friday night dances.  With the live bands!  Dirk, Captain Rush, Ruby Rush ( the hair and makeup) and or course Nae Haas.  Not sure how to spell that one.  Having to drain the pool and scrub it every Thursday night because there was not a filter.  How cold the water was on Friday morning.  Nine am swimming lessons.  Does anyone remember the little boy we called Tennis Ball.  He was always waiting on us to open and was the last to leave at closing.  Oh and the basket check.  LOVED working the basket check. (HA HA)  Also where I met my future husband fellow lifeguard David.  I did love swinging that whistle while walking around that pool.  GOOOOD  TIMES!

 
RE: Southside Pool
Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 06:07 PM

Vicki Lynch,

You are NOT old enough to remember that place!! And BTW, it's NAY HOSS! We were close personal friends. i hadn't thought about that place in years. Were you and David lifeguards with David Downs? I used to hang with him there...it was close to both of our houses.

What a blast from the past! Have you been on the Cue & Cushion forum on here? what a hoot! i think Brian Salyer and/or Bob Fosson started it. it's a riot too!

 

Take care.

Finkbone

 
RE: Southside Pool
Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2010 04:24 PM

Just caught up with your chat about Southside.....what happened to the place?  Did they fill it up?

I worked there for a couple of summers and had a GREAT time.  Vicki you are right, scrubbing the pool was a terrible job...but I liked the extra $$$.  Also, working at the concerts was fun too.  Not sure any of us would have been able to do anything if there was any serious trouble.  Good thing we had no gangs back in the day, at least in Ashland.  Except that is for Bryan's gang of hoodlums.

I remember one time when someone threw Dirk in the deep end.  His swoop hung down to his shoulder blades....his look today is much better.  Also, I absolutely loved the corn dogs....man that makes my mouth water.  David Downs was always near "black" using peanut oil to get the optimum tan.  That could not have been a good thing.  Back then, we had no clue...

I had a blast at the reunion....just too short!

 

Mike;-)

 

 

 

 
RE: Southside Pool
Posted Friday, September 24, 2010 10:23 PM

Hi Guys,

I do have a lot of good memories from Southside Pool.. I never went to any of the Fri. night dances but I did go there swimming a lot, or should I say just sitting and playing cards and boy watching or meeting boyfriends.. I never did go to the deep end, never went off the high dive. I think I went off one of the low dives once.. I used to sit and watch other people though.. I was always too scared..

I don't remember any of you working there,, If I strain my brain, maybe I can remember David Downs being lifeguard. I always would get french fries.. Love those things and still do.. in the late afternoon I would get chick o sticks.. I never did have much money to spend. I remember Nay Hoss, I always felt sorry for the way people treated him. Is he still around?

Don't know what that area looks like now, but one time a while back while in Ashland, we drove past there and I think it had been turned into a skate park..

I'm with Mike about the reunion,,, It was great fun,,just too short to get around to really get a good talk in with everyone.

 
RE: Southside Pool
Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2010 04:41 PM

I lived @ Southside Pool most every summer from 1967 -1975.  As a small child we collected Coke cups and put holes in the side of the cups then stacked the cups in the shape of a pyramid.  We poured pool water in the top cup and the water cascaded to the the lower cups and so on and so on.  In a matter of minutes we had a water fountain.  Life was simple.

Life guarding was a blast.  Watching the girls walk circles around the pool for hours while we spun our whistles around of finger.  Basketball on the blacktop under the trees was addicting to a few of us.  I 'll bet Mike Craft laid awake at night with adrenaline running through his veins waiting for the turn stiles to open the next morning.  In the summer of '75 Randy Maddux and I was passing a ball in the pool when I accidentaly through the ball over his head and into the back of a young girl.  The girl picked up the ball and through it back to me.  I then through the ball back to her.  At the end of the day Randy had to find a ride home because I took that young girl home.  That girl was Annette and that is how we first meet.     

 
Edited 10/01/10 02:18 PM