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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love these stories! We have a couple on the our boards in Arlington from the 1970s. I remember reading an interview with the guy who has the NVSL 8U boys free record that’s from 1965 (?) and wondering if it will ever be broken.

Also - not to derail this into an equipment fight like the one that’s ruining the other swim thread, but I do think not would be fun to see what suits/caps/goggles were like 50–70 years ago. I remember foam lined goggles from the 90s but the caps and suits seemed fairly similar.[/quote]

We have some really old photos floating around our pool. In the 70s the suits were all Arena and had a kind of funny low boy-cut for the girls. All I wanted back then was the arena suit with the little logos going up the stripe along the hip and back.

I remember “fun suits” in my late 70s childhood being a weird thick knit and/or a thin terrycloth. I can’t remember what team suits felt like but I think they were closer to thick elastic cotton knits than they were to modern Lycra knits.

The foam-lined goggles were a thing in the very late 70s but I was too little to remember before that.

My relatives who swam in the 60s and early 70s claim there were no goggles?

All of this still begs the question of how on earth those kids were so darn fast in spite of bad or no goggles, heavy suits, etc. Maybe it was because they didn’t waste time putting on sunscreen or packing a healthy meal. The kids in the team photos all have bleached out hair, crazy tans, and look strung out like they’ve eaten nothing but Slush Puppies and giant Smarties for a month. [/quote]

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