I’m sitting here in Florida where the temperature is 77.4 degrees (the heat index drops it to 71 degrees), listening through the wonders of the Internet to police calls 1,100 miles away in Southeast Missouri. It sounds like an afternoon and evening of slip, slip, sliding away. The poor guys running the plows and salt trucks are getting Super Bowl updates on their two-way radios, but I don’t think they are overly happy being out there. The radio traffic overall has dropped off. that’s a good sign that those with sense aren’t venturing onto the roads.
Anyway, here’s a photo that might give you hope that another warm July 21 day will come again just like it did in 1967. Of course, that diver’s granddaughter won’t be able to duplicate that dive because Capaha Park Pool is nothing but a memory now. (Click on the photo to make it larger.)
I must have gotten a special waiver on the rule that “if you climb up the ladder to the high dive, there’s only one way down – off the board.” Maybe it’s because I knew one of the lifeguards.
Mark Bodine, inventor of the Dunbar in the water. Mary Pat Beatty (Dan Beatty’s Sister) diving off the board. Front dive layout position. My best guess. Both were on the diving team in those years.
Both great kids and now probably great adults.
Here’s a Frony photo from 1954 of a crowded oval pool at Capaha Park. That original pool at the park was replaced by the larger pool in 1957.
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