quote:Originally posted by Bill Gray:
Hi Y'all,
I learn to swim in the old swimming pool at Spring Park in Tuscumbia --- and in 1954, my friend, Roy Green, and I swam the Tennessee River from Whipperwill Hollow to the Florence side and back. Roy passed away about two years ago, and I will turn 70 in about two weeks. So, I guess we survived okay.
Personally, I would worry more about eating in restaurants; especially fast food restaurants. Have you ever noticed how many of their employees take a toilet break and do not even wet their hands before returning to work? And you worry about the Tennessee River?
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill Gray
Alabama bred,
California fed,
America blessed!
Bill Gray, I remember that pool VERY well... Our parents used to take us over there on the weekends, ... and a lot of the time, it was green instead of clear, lol...but we didn't care, we were kids!!! lol
A LOT has been learned since then, and of course that was LONG before AIDS, ...