Woman and children sitting on a diving board

Continuing the summery theme, here’s another woman with children, ready to swim. This is another of the photos that were a gift from my friend Nathan, and several of the people pictured here are younger versions of people pictured here. I can’t quite tell if the edges of the diving board don’t look smooth because they are the rough-hewn edges of a log, or if the board is covered in a canvas-like fabric, perhaps as a non-slip feature. As for the Sawtooth Mountains, there are mountains by that name in Idaho and Southern California, and I’m not sure to which this refers.

6 comments on “Woman and children sitting on a diving board”

2 Jul 2013 at 6:00 pm Mrs. P
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I can’t help you with the location but I love the outdoor, natural pool. This is even nicer than the one I went to which had an annual event called Polar bear Plunge…brrr.
- 2 Jul 2013 at 6:34 pm usermattw
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  Wow, brrrr indeed! I’ve been in some pretty chilly outdoor pools and lakes and things, but I’ve never done a Polar Bear event.
4 Jul 2013 at 1:15 pm harriedcostumer
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I was thinking it might be the Idaho one, especially since they’re supposed to have a “famous” hot springs pool. But I can’t find a picture of any pools in the actual Sawtooth National Forest that look like this. The closest I came is this hotel site (“Sawtooth Lodge”), whose pool is a bit similar, though the edge is not the same:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g35459-d1126235-w3-Sawtooth_Lodge-Garden_City_Idaho.html#41792207
- 5 Jul 2013 at 9:49 am usermattw
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  Thanks for checking! It’s hard to say where this was. And I hope I haven’t overlooked some third range of Sawtooth mountains somewhere. I imagine the pool could easily have changed in the intervening years, but not necessarily.
4 Jul 2013 at 2:54 pm gingkochris
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Not that this photograph is dated to the 1950s, but I remember diving boards in the 50s being covered in some heavy canvas material for traction. As the material became worn and/or began to disintegrate in the sun, the edges would get very frayed, just like in this picture.
- 5 Jul 2013 at 9:50 am usermattw
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  Thanks for confirming my guess about that.