How much did you pay for a pool membership in North Arlington?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any movement to bring public pools back to Arlington or Alexandria, rather than continuing this private pool culture?

Of course not. This is Arlington we're talking about. They don't want the poors in their pools.

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Arlington forest is a great pool - but if you are not in the priority neighborhoods I doubt you will ever get in without paying. Try to find a member and offer to pay for visitor passes and go with them.
That area goes to ashlawn I think so if your kids are zoned for that school should not be that hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, this seems like financial segregation of pools.

Probably yes - but blame the county for the fact that there are no outdoor public pools. Many large apartment complexes have pools, so that’s an option for some people.

Do where do people swim in the county outdoors If they can’t afford a membership?

Upton Hills Regional Park pool is outdoors. The W-L high school pool has a fenced in outdoors deck with chairs. Fort Myer has a pool.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any movement to bring public pools back to Arlington or Alexandria, rather than continuing this private pool culture?

Alexandria has the very fun Great Waves Waterpark. Arlington has the popular Upton Hills pool and the new Long Bridge Park public pool. W-L HS pool has an outdoors deck.

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Anonymous wrote:The history of those pools is absolutely rooted in segregation. Maybe it’s changed, but when I bought a home in south Arlington 10 years ago I looked up getting on the waitlist of Overlee ( i think). I wasn’t allowed to sign up, because my address wasn’t acceptable. I lived near Nauck at the time.
Serisouly.

I don’t think any of the private pools have neighborhoods that can’t join, but some do give waitlist preference to the neighborhoods within close proximity (at least one is near enough to SA that a number of neighborhoods are in the geographic preference area). We live in SA and had preference to Arlington Forest. I think the SE part of Arlington is out of luck because the only private pool in that area is part of the Army/Navy Country Club, which costs significantly more than the other private pool clubs that don’t include golf. There isn’t another private pool or pool/tennis club in that area. You’ll have the new aquatic facility close to you, but it’s indoors and the fees won’t be much that less expensive than the private pools in NA from what I have heard.

NP, but the history of private pools in the South (which VA definitely is), is rooted in Segregation. When public pools were no longer legally allowed to keep black people out, public pools closed and private pools opened - because the private pools could discriminate.

There's a reason there are so few public pools, and its not a nice one.

Notably, Arlington’s YMCA’s had pools, including one in Green Valley.

Arlington didn’t have any county-run public pools until Arlington Public Schools built them at the high schools in the early 1970s. Arlington Public Schools desegregated in 1959. DC’s Jim Crow laws mandated segregated public pools that integrated by the 1960s. Baltimore also had segregated public pools that integrated by the 60s.

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Qwerty123 wrote:I've got a Dominion Hills pool membership that I would be willing to sell (PM me).

Good luck with that. You can't sell DH memberships unless you sell your house. Let's see how you get this past the board.

Thanks! Yep, there are certain ways around it. Happy to discuss further with anyone seriously interested in purchasing the membership to the pool. Current waitlist is ~10 years and the other alternatives (Like Army Navy Country Club) are ~$700/month.

Ahh, McCrazy. Are they letting you sell you membership now that you've been kicked out for your behavior?

Thanks for the laugh, PP. The Crazies are long gone despite their best efforts and apparently some other pool was dumb enough to let them in and deal with their behavior.

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Property is too expensive for public pools in Arlington. The few that exist have been around forever and are worth 10s of millions in land.

The few that get to enjoy them either got on a wait list long before having kids or live very close by.

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Qwerty123 wrote:

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Qwerty123 wrote:I've got a Dominion Hills pool membership that I would be willing to sell (PM me).

Good luck with that. You can't sell DH memberships unless you sell your house. Let's see how you get this past the board.

Thanks! Yep, there are certain ways around it. Happy to discuss further with anyone seriously interested in purchasing the membership to the pool. Current waitlist is ~10 years and the other alternatives (Like Army Navy Country Club) are ~$700/month.

Ahh, McCrazy. Are they letting you sell you membership now that you've been kicked out for your behavior?

Thanks for the laugh, PP. The Crazies are long gone despite their best efforts and apparently some other pool was dumb enough to let them in and deal with their behavior.

Because their kid is a good swimmer . . .

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Qwerty123 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Qwerty123 wrote:I've got a Dominion Hills pool membership that I would be willing to sell (PM me).

Good luck with that. You can't sell DH memberships unless you sell your house. Let's see how you get this past the board.

Thanks! Yep, there are certain ways around it. Happy to discuss further with anyone seriously interested in purchasing the membership to the pool. Current waitlist is ~10 years and the other alternatives (Like Army Navy Country Club) are ~$700/month.

Ahh, McCrazy. Are they letting you sell you membership now that you've been kicked out for your behavior?

Thanks for the laugh, PP. The Crazies are long gone despite their best efforts and apparently some other pool was dumb enough to let them in and deal with their behavior.

Because their kid is a good swimmer . . .

I definitely missed a story here…

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any movement to bring public pools back to Arlington or Alexandria, rather than continuing this private pool culture?

Of course not. This is Arlington we're talking about. They don't want the poors in their pools.

What are you even talking about. We have 3 high school pools, the brand new Long Bridge Aquatics Center that was insanely $$$, and we support Nova Parks that operates Upton Hill. All of which have fee reduction/waiver programs. How many more public pools do you think we need?

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Anonymous wrote:Property is too expensive for public pools in Arlington. The few that exist have been around forever and are worth 10s of millions in land.

The few that get to enjoy them either got on a wait list long before having kids or live very close by.

The three high school pools were all completely rebuilt within the past 20 years. The spectacular Long Bridge Aquatic Center just opened a few years ago.

There were also no segregated public pools (that closed before they could integrate as some have insinuated) in Arlington because there were no public pools until the 70s. (The private pools were segregated except for Fort Myer and Knights of C.) I don’t understand all the misinformation on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington forest is like 3k first year and 800 per year after initial fee.

It is a very nice club, especially if you like tennis

Overlee is similar.

DP. Does Overlee have tennis? I thought AF was the only one in Arlington with both.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any movement to bring public pools back to Arlington or Alexandria, rather than continuing this private pool culture?

Of course not. This is Arlington we're talking about. They don't want the poors in their pools.

What are you even talking about. We have 3 high school pools, the brand new Long Bridge Aquatics Center that was insanely $$$, and we support Nova Parks that operates Upton Hill. All of which have fee reduction/waiver programs. How many more public pools do you think we need?

DP. Isn’t this relative to the overall population as opposed to the newness of the aquatics center? The one time I tried to take my child to long bridge the line was an hour long.

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Remember the kkkiler whale's swim team post? I think it was referencing this pool: http://pgpool.org

lol, that still gives me a chuckle.

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I live in a suburb of Chicago. We pay $260 for our pool pass. It allows us to use the three pools in my village (2 outdoor, 1 indoor) plus the public pools in two neighboring suburbs. Swim team and swim lessons cost extra. Otherwise, it's $6/day for residents. What your describing sounds hard to believe.