DEARBORN, Michigan – Mayor John B O’Reilly, Jr. invites Dearborn residents to join him at Levagood Park on Thursday, August 23 at 6 p.m. to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the outdoor pool. The Dearborn Recreation and Parks Department event includes free swimming till dusk, complimentary hot dogs and cake plus a “Funk and Dunk Concert” by the Bomb Squad. (See story part 1). Photos courtesy of City of Dearborn.
Seashore Pool opens in Dearborn summer of 1942.
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Seashore Pool became famous for it’s sandy beach.
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Dearborn ‘City Fathers’ determining the future site of Seashore Pool in 1940. From left to right: Earl Maples, Jamie L. Johnson (councilman), Earnest G. Miller (councilman), Clark Green (supt. of public works), F.R. Storer (city engineer), John Carey (Mayor of Dearborn), Joseph Schaefer (councilman), Anthony Esper (councilman), William Klamser (Publisher of the Dearborn Press), Clarence Doyle (councilman), Henry Schubert (Supt. of Recreation), Clyde Ford (councilman and former Mayor)
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Seashore Pool was improved, refurbished, and re-opened in time for Memorial Day weekend in 1948.
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Remember the days in the early ’70’s when if “you swam to the Tower you were nobody to mess with.” Thden you had to swim real good to be a diver off the springboards.
Thanks for the wonderful photos! Wish there were more. I loved that pool and had so much fun there in the 60’s and 70’s. Swimming to the tower was a big deal. I remember being so scared the first time off the highest diving board. Any other Lindbergh alumni remember hanging out at Seashore?
Do you remembner the Seashore dance: Spread your toes, raise your arms and turn around? What was that all about? Also, do you remember the concrete bathroom area where the ‘older girls’ did their hair and put on lipstick? Us younger kids never went in that part! How about the baskets for your clothes which you claimed by showing the token attached to the stretchy bracelet?
I have so many good memories .One of the attendants sent me back after “checking my toes” to go wash the epidermis off my feet. How funny is that now that i know the word. By the way, Camp Dearborn has resurrected the baskets. They are being used at the pool there. The best part was not being caught “jumping the fence”. Anyone else remember the good old days?
How about those wire baskets you would put your clothes in, and a person would store them for you. Also, you got this nice tag you could wear around your ankle.
Remember how cold the water was coming off of the slide? I miss the old Seashore.
I remember the life guards would double-bounce us off the spring boards to make us go even higher.
I have so many memories of Seashore at Levagood Park. I spent all day there, everyday of the week during summer vacation from school. My most fond memories, though, are going back in the evening after dinner with my dad. Those were really special times to me because it was one of the few
things that it was just he & I enjoying time together. We were the swimmers of the family.
My brothers and I along with friends would ride our bikes from Wayne all the way to Cherry Hill and Telegraph many times to swim and have a very good time back in the early 50’s. I learned to swim there and a life guard had to rescue me the first time I tried to go out to the Tower. I have such fond memories of Seashore Pool and that bike ride home was a chore after swimming all afternoon. I wonder if kids today would do that or if thier parents would feel safe in letting them do that at a young age. Times sure have changed but Seashore Pool looks to be the same fun place that I remember.
Such wonderful memories of Seashore when I was a girl. I would go there and stay all day long and come home and have dinner and then my dad & I
would go back there to swim in the evening. I have such great memories. In the winter time, my dad would take me ice skating at Levagood Park at the skating rink, which was located more or less in front of Seashore….on the park side, facing Silvery Lane.
Loved the Place……..spent many a day there in the summers of the 60’s.
I remember diving lessons from the tower in the early 70’s. Did great until one day I just couldn’t stop doing back smackers. That summer ended my diving career.
loved seashore pool from the 50’s to the early 70’s DHS 1971, getting as many people on the tower and launching a slavo of cannon balls and can openers to soak the life guards. shooting the basket tags and diving for them
I don’t see any tags on those suits or ‘basket tags’ on their ankles or wrists. I remember one year mom was busy so she pined the tag on my suit… they made me go home and have it sewed on… thankfully I only lived a block away. Swimming in the summer and ice skating in the winter… what great memories.
I recall driving my ’69 Mustang around the dirt and grass surrounding the pool and hopeing I did not get caught ! What fun !!!!!