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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Ground Swat
What will now happen to the $18,000 that was left in the pool fund from Armco?
The Community Center and the entire area were different because it was part of the City's 5 year Plan and therefore got funding and support from the City |
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ground swat
MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 31 2011 Status: Offline Points: 367 |
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Ms. Moon I would agree, but as I have followed many a council meeting I cannot remember more than 5 people coming to the podium to voice their concerns on this matter. And I know that number is high. Minutes from a PB meeting last year showed several citizens speaking out not to remove the pool but they are talking to a board that has know real power. The chairman Mr. Conners (Don't know if thats the correct spelling) spoke at council and advised the city to wait on demo. give Mr. Wood time to drum up money, didn't happen. Also it was suggested that a new pool, smaller, updated could be built in the future, this to me makes quite alot of sense. I am the first to question what comes out of the second floor but it's over and until more people like Ms. Moon come forward to work on these issues your dreaming that the city is going to spend our money on these "extras". The community center got a new "face lift" due to volunteers busting their -ss asking for donations from local business people willing to listen to a well lad out plan. Mr. Armbruster at one of the council meetings brought up an " Idea" to look into a park that would benefit dog owners . Never once do I remember Sunset being the target of this "Idea". It was studied and put on the shelf. I grew up going to Sunset and lucky enough to belong to Wildwood I also followed the reopening of Sunset and each year of the three attendance dropped and it wasn't all due to weather. Times have changed and maybe Mr. Wood will get fired up again and we can all support the building of a new pool, it could happen.
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LMAO
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 28 2009 Location: Middletucky Status: Offline Points: 468 |
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Whats funny is the community center got a new face lift and Douglas Park got a Splash Pad.Sunset gets a Doggy poopy Park.Thank "SPINELESS ONES."
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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A very sad day for our community.
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tessc57
Outsider Joined: Aug 11 2011 Location: Mason Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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THERE IS THE POOL I REMEBER! Good times!
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tessc57
Outsider Joined: Aug 11 2011 Location: Mason Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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I have to agree. Great times at Sunset Pool, I was on the swimming team with Coach Dillon when I was a child. We would walk to the pool and spend the entire day there. How sad to see this happening.
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Tess
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bumper
MUSA Citizen Joined: Feb 01 2010 Location: over here Status: Offline Points: 307 |
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thats looking like a "ZONK" !!!! PRIZE on lets make a deal....
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TudorBrown
MUSA Citizen Joined: Aug 24 2009 Location: Highlands D. Status: Offline Points: 265 |
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Look at the bright side guys, we still have the splash pads!
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bumper
MUSA Citizen Joined: Feb 01 2010 Location: over here Status: Offline Points: 307 |
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ooooh wow cool beans on the pool pic purdy sure i was there that day mom took us there like every day because dad worked at the mill and needed his sleep when working 2nd and 3rds, could go there and make all the noise we wanted
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middletownscouter
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 11 2010 Location: Sunset Park Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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99% of the mothball costs is in the upkeep of the concession stand building, which is NOT being demo'ed. So why waste our money on demolishing a pool that wasn't being maintained in the first place? These kind of questionable choices are what make me seriously consider voting for things like levies and tax increases.
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Ya know, I still don't understand. If the price to keep the pool open was projected to be $50,000 per season, and there are ~ 50,000 left in the city, why couldn't they have charged one lousy, measely dollar per person in each household, on their water bill, to fund the pool. You are charged for garbage pickup. Will be charged for street lights perhaps. Is two, three or four bucks per person, ONE TIME SHOT per swim season, too much to ask? Is this community really that poor as to not being able to afford this on a one time shot per year? OR, offer the people of Middletown a yearly membership. The folks who can't afford high-roller Brown's Run, Forest Hills, or Wildwood Country Club memberships could benefit from this, right? What will the poorer families do now for swimming? ..........OR......has the advent of home above and in-ground pools actually killed off the public pool interest and nothing suggested could save this thing? In years to come, perhaps this community and it's leaders would have wished they had mothballed it after they filled it in. Sometime, down the road, perhaps in better times, given ideas are not necessarily new, just regenerated, someone is going to suggest a public pool for the community. And the cycle begins again. |
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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They were going to find $70,000 to demo this thing. This $70,000 would easily have repaired the problem and kept the pool open another year. But then again, golf is more important than a child learning to swim!
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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I do see the other slide now 409. Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like a newer bath house to the left of the photo also. I remember a wooden one where you rinsed off entering and exiting the pool. Anyone remember that or is the mind going at 62? Yep, some of us older people keep going back in time to ease the pain of what is currently happening in the city. Guess it's too painful to watch as your good memories keep going to the dump in trucks. The younger ones here will feel the same way when their time comes and their memories start to die with "progress". It'll come for them down the road. |
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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Vet....I can't take credit for the 1960 photo. I borrowed it from the Library Lens site and should have noted it.
If you look closely at the left side of the photo, the other slide is partially visable.
This is how I remember it, with 2 slides. Also remember the two 10' and two 3' diving boards on the east edge.
As Edith sang to Archie "Those were the Days".
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Bill
MUSA Citizen Joined: Nov 04 2009 Status: Offline Points: 710 |
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Has anyone discussed what the annual cost is to just leave it mothballed for a few more years? What's the harm? There's probably no money to do anything with this land anyway. Well, other than fill it in and have it be a doggie crap field.
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Hey! Nice picture. Just as I remember it as a kid. There was a small pool to the left of the pool at the bottom of your picture 409. That's the one where I almost drowned. This picture shows only one large slide to the right of the yellow unbrella/lifeguard stand. I thought there were multiple slides in a row at one time. They all had water running down them for easier sliding. Good decision on leaving the concession stand IMO. |
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middletownscouter
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 11 2010 Location: Sunset Park Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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It's also entirely telling of the hypocrisy of those controlling the city that we have to demolish a pool yet can give the golf course a MILLION dollars over the last five years with not one cent ever being repaid.
I guess all of us poor folks should just take up golf, no? |
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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Vet.....They are leaving the bath house/concession building in place.
Went swimming in the old pool regularly. Circa 1960, before the 1979 rebuild.
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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They should leave that nice concessions building standing IMO. Doesn't look like it is in bad shape by the picture. Haven't been over there in a year or so. Could be converted into a place similar to The Holiday House at MUM or the party house off of University (can't remember the name of it now) across from old Fenwick HS. Got a kitchen and parking, right?
I agree with all. Sad to see Middletown disappearing one building at a time. Almost drowned in 1952 when I was a little kid in the kiddie pool bumper mentioned. It was separate from the big pool and you had to go down a few steps to get to it. Use to be 2 or 3 large slides on the nearest end of the pool as you look at 409's picture. (in the early edition of Sunset Pool) and a rickety old wooden bathhouse as you entered the pool from the parking lot. At the top of 409's picture, would have been the diving boards. |
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tomahawk35
MUSA Resident Joined: Nov 18 2008 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 223 |
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Vote for Mike Presta
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bumper
MUSA Citizen Joined: Feb 01 2010 Location: over here Status: Offline Points: 307 |
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had lot of fun there back in the day, im 56, and still remember being a tot and afraid to jump in the kiddy pool. then getting into my teens and chasing all the hot chicks my mother is 81 and she was going there when she was a child.. everything in middletown has tuned to sh*t , so i guess the plan is to turn this park into sh*t, dog sh*t that is...
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John Beagle
MUSA Official Joined: Apr 23 2007 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1855 |
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It's a sad commentary on the fiscal state of Middletown. We can't afford to keep our pools open.
In this town we are tearing things down rather than building things up. Sad, very sad.
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swohio75
MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 13 2008 Status: Offline Points: 820 |
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When did council approve this?
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randy
MUSA Official Joined: Jan 13 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1586 |
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This is just sad....and some BS!!!
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LMAO
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 28 2009 Location: Middletucky Status: Offline Points: 468 |
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Yes it is a sad day.They found a way to put the screws to us on there damn street lights.Dont care what anyone says,we the taxpayers will be paying for them.Our Spineless ones arent nothing but LIARS!!!!!! Love to be there when each one of you come through the gates of heaven.Oh wait,God dont like Liars and theifs.
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