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We do belong to a neighborhood pool club, and the only "criteria" is that you have to live in the neighborhood.  [/quote]

Look up the history of the club. Private pool clubs were created in this area once the public pools opened up to blacks. Your neighborhood pool likely opened up for that reason, and they kept out the blacks (and maybe those of certain religions) by restricting who could buy in the neighborhood (redlining).

Of course that's all highly illegal now, but it did happen back then. [/quote]

There were never that many public pools. A large city like Baltimore might have had 2-3 public pools for 800-900k people. The growth of suburban pool clubs followed the growth of suburban areas and a growing middle classes with greater appetite for swimming and outdoor activities than previous urban generations. Suburban pool clubs were started in areas that tended to not have existing public pool facilities as they were outside the urban cities and till quite recently rural areas. 1950s-1960s suburbia was just a decade removed from farmlands. [/quote]

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