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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the info!

I’ll take a look at all the info posted

One question I do have. I came from an area where cities/villages had public pools and most summer teams swam/competed out of those pools. I was shocked to see all the small outdoor pools littered throughout Annandale. Most with teams as well. Can anyone shed light on this? Why/how this came about?[/quote]

White people did not want to swim in desegregated pools. I grew up in the south and often the answer to “why is this the way it is?” is often Jim Crowe.

https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213675/racial-history-of-american-swimming-pools

Do yourself a favor and go to the job boards at USA swimming and swimswam. This is an anonymous board of swim parents. [/quote]

This article is a wonderful national trend, but really not relevant to the hyper-local reason for the large number of pools that developers built as the chief amenity of so many Fairfax neighborhoods in the 60s and 70s.  [/quote]

I'm at one of those tiny pools in Annandale, and this. If you look at the NVSL map for Annandale just outside the Beltway (along with Springfield, Burke, and eastern Fairfax), you'll find lots of tiny '60s and '70s neighborhoods with their own pools. It's so crazy that a little over a decade ago Royal Pool in Kings Park shut down because KP could no longer support 2 pools. Some other area pools are definitely at risk.[/quote]

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