At San Antonio’s old downtown YWCA, boys and girls took the plunge together
Last Sunday’s column tested the waters of the YMCA swimming pool in answer to a question from Terry Phillips. She remembered taking swimming lessons as a child in 1956 or 1957 at the old downtown YMCA, but she couldn’t quite place the location in the geography of memory.
In photographs and Sanborn fire insurance maps, the pool can be seen as an unevenly hexagonal structure attached to the main building with windows that looked out onto a parking lot. Phillips showed the pictures to her brother, who confirmed that he had taken swim classes there a few years before she did.
Other readers had a pretty good idea. Tim Swan remembered that his mother, Margaret Swan Forbes, a nationally recognized synchronized swimming coach, was teaching classes at the YWCA in 1963. Besides organizing the Silver Fins synchronized swim club, Forbes pioneered Tiny Tots swimming classes for toddlers to preschool-age children. “By the 1970s, she was teaching hundreds of infants every summer,” her son said.
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