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YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. [1] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association. The organization aims to put Christian values into practice by developing a ...
YMCA/YWCA swimming A swim lesson in a YMCA, 1915. The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York.: 154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became mixed-gender in the 1970s.
YMCA Philadelphia. / 39.95472°N 75.16472°W / 39.95472; -75.16472. YMCA Philadelphia, also Greater Philadelphia YMCA was founded on June 15, 1854, by George H. Stuart, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and importer. The goal of the Association was to reach "the many thousands of neglected youth not likely to be brought under any ...
About 400 first-grade students in Plain Local schools are getting free swim lessons through a partnership with the YMCA of Central Stark County.
Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is "skinny dipping". In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body". [1] In British English, bathing also means swimming; [2 ...
13000954. Added to NRHP. December 28, 2013. Crosstown Concourse is a mixed-use development in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally built in 1927 as a Sears retail store and catalog order plant, the building was closed in 1993. A 2015–2017 renovation brought in retail, restaurants, office spaces, and apartments.
The pool was a great success; Memphians came from opening day in May to its close in September. It became a surrogate beach for Memphians longing for the ocean and hosted TV commercials for Memphis-based Coppertone, publicity photos for beauty queens, weddings, baptisms, church picnics, parachutists, class reunions, and corporate gatherings.
James Ellis (born 1947) is an American swim coach who founded the PDR (Philadelphia Department of Recreation, or Pride, Determination, Resilience) swim team just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as one of the few predominantly Black swim teams largely for intercity youth. He coached the team from 1971 to 2008, at Nicetown's Marcus Foster ...