Volume 13 , Issue 2

McGill Swimming Pool

Earl Fugit remembers swimming the McGill Swimming Pool. Yes! It was between two buildings. There was a skinny walkway from the front of the building on the eastside towards the back where the swimming pool existed. See photo in next paragraph showing location of McGill Bros. Furniture and the short building on the far right where the swimming pool was behind. Today, as you walk the 600 block of Barnes Avenue, you might see a short building with a "Hot Rod Mural" on the front. The swimming is filled in now, but sets behind this building.

If you look closely at the photo on the left you will see McGill Bros Furniture (where Smith Dentistry is today). On the far right of that same photo there is a short building and you can see a gap between it and the building next to it. I believe the McGill Swimming Pool was behind the short building on the right.

You can read more about the McGill Bros and their furniture store at this link: McGill Bros. Furniture, July 18, 1936. Maybe some northwest Oklahomans have some antique furniture stored some place with McGill Bros Furniture stamped on the backside.

Earl remembers, "In my younger days I swam in this pool. As I remember it was between two buildings. The distance from the pool to the buildings was only 6 feet if that much. The pool was small and if the girls in that picture were in the water at the same time, the water in the pool would have overflowed. The only other swimming pool in the area was at Carmen I also used to swim there in the 1930s and early 40s."   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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