5 More to Look At

1926

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5 More to Look At
  • Title
  • 5 More to Look At
  • Creator
  • J. R. Hunter
  • Date
  • 1926
  • Identifier
  • 20100526-ocl-0951
  • Source Identifier
  • None
  • Description
  • Competitors number 24, 25, 26, 29 and 30 sashay across the boards placed across the pool. The women certainly had to watch their footing or they could find themselves all wet. This may explain why most of the girls are watching their feet. Number 26, however, looks saucily at the audience. The step ladder out of the pool, visible in the foreground, indicates that these ladies have almost completed their jaunt across the pool. The Miss Pittsburgh pageant took place at Oakmont's Willows Pool. The Willows originally started out as a hopping night club that featured all the big name bands of the day and fine dining. The swimming pool would not open until 1926. Oakmonters enjoyed dining, boating and partying at the Willows despite prohibition of the 1920s.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Willows (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Miss Pittsburgh--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Pageants--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives, Hunter Collection
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
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