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The One Thing We DIDN'T Do There Much Is Actually Swim
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A staple of my youth in New Jersey is struggling these days: the classic suburban New York swim club, the privately-owned oases that were standard for every household in the '60s. Ours was right up the street from us and is, according to Google Maps (I haven't been back for decades), still there, albeit now municipally-owned. No, we're talking "The Flamingo Kid" or that show on Amazon, "Red Oaks." Pool, clubhouse, maybe a tennis court, a snack bar... it's a combination of liability issues and changing habits. And I wonder if it's because kids don't play outside anymore; in Summer, we would go to the swim club every single day to hang out, play ping-pong and basketball, eat freeze-pops and fries, shag pop flies on the field out back, and jump in the big pool. Now, apparently, not so much. Kids don't know what they're missing. (Bergen Record)
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