Sunset Pool Demo

this is lookin like a smarty marty half a$$ job,did alot of  this in lebanon just to come back later to redo..$$$$ ain't that right judy... 

 

Crews worked Saturday morning to cut a drain slot (approx 4' x 50') and to open up a seam that was deteriorating.

Its allmost seems like the drain slots were an after thought maybe some one from the city reads this forum? And would the most logical place to cut the drains be in the deep end of the pool any way? Last time I noticed water still runs down hill

Bushes are gone as well as most of the front fencing. Stairway to ?.

Pump Room

Would have made a good restroom facility for the park perhaps???? Water pipes close by to have accomodated this? Too late now.

VietVet wrote: Would have made a good restroom facility for the park perhaps???? Water pipes close by to have accomodated this? Too late now.

If the City Manager gets her way, the whole place will be a restroom...a DOGGIE restroom!!!   

Thats the best the park has looked in a long long time.   Its about time we can put to bed fund raising and wasting money on the pools.   A chapter is closed.  (about 15 years too late)

And so, it is done. Like the old hospital area, the former parking garage/Swallens/ the old YMCA/Sorg sites and the former Roosevelt school, we now have another area where activity once thrived and now, there is empty space, complete with a desolate, barren, "empty lot" wasteland to view. Nothing really planned to take their place. Just "greenspace". The city is getting good at bulldozing. Not so good at replacing that which was bulldozed. What will we do with all the emptiness being created in this city? How exciting......how progressive.......how disgusting IMO. The longer this city keeps people like Gilleland in control, the more desolate this town is going to be. "Re-inventing" this city is one thing. Tearing down structures and leaving open "nothingness" in it's place is another story. How many sites have been torn down and how many of those sites have seen a replacement usage? Little to none. Is there any indication that the city leaders have any plans at all of using any of these empty sites? JMO

Is the Baker Bowl over at Smith Park still used? If so, how about a downsized version of a Baker Bowl in that spot? Wonder if Baker Concrete would do the work at that site as they did at Smith Park? (Or is the vandalism and graffitti still an issue at Smith?) Or is skateboarding dying out?

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The city provided some free music concerts (other than the Broad St. Bash) during the summer season with different venues, didn't they? Don't they have a portable bandstand? Still doing that? Haven't heard. Wonder if the community would be interested in the city setting up a portable screen on this bandstand with a sound system and showing outdoor movies during the evening hours in the summer? The former pool area might be a good place for viewing, don't know. Might give the families of Middletown some cheap entertainment on a weekend evening. Might do the vendor thing at the movies like the Bash does too. Always the comment that there is nothing to do in this town. You could also do this at Douglas and at Smith if enough interest. Just a suggestion.

It doesn't look too bad actually.

Thnx again 409 for your fine reporting skills.  The ace reporter from this site must be washing alot of cars over at the office.