bearister said:
Is there a line that Trump could cross that would remove your motivation to respond to every BI post that criticizes him?
Yes, vandals caused damage to the project and they should be criminally prosecuted, but do you really believe that their actions amount to anything more than a pimple on an elephant's arse?
Do you really believe that if they surrounded the reflection pool with National Guardsman locking arms 24/7 that it would address the underlying structural, biological and ecological issues with the project?
Why doesn't Trump just ask his Afrikaner trillionaire bestie to do this for him:
Converting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a functional, giant swimming pool would cost an estimated $100 million to over $350 million, with tens of millions of dollars required annually for ongoing maintenance and chemical treatments.
It can be the modern day Fleishhacker Pool*:
*It was seawater. My Dad took me to see it.
Fleishacker Pool is the coldest spot in the City, west of the Zoo and near the Great Highway and Ocean Beach. My mother sometimes swam there, but only when she had to as part of a team, I guess. The pool was heated, but the wind and the ice cold air near the ocean dropped the water temperature way down. I've been there, but rarely saw any more than a few hardy souls swimming there - nothing like in your photo.
I first learned to swim in Sutro Baths, near the Cliff House. The building was several stories in height, and the ground floor was where the swimming pools were. The building was also a museum of San Francisco history, and you could walk down several flights of stairs to see the photos and artifacts. The pools were salt water, and all heated, which made it comfortable to swim. There was a diving pool as well, and a high diving board. It was like being in a steam room with all the steam rising from the pool surface.
The human body is much more buoyant in salt water, and I floated so easily it was easy to learn to swim, or so I thought at the time. I remember going in summers to Lake Tahoe to swim, and in that fresh water lake I sank like a rock. I blame the lessons seawater for my not learning to swim well. But it sure was more comfortable than learning in a freezing cold place like Fleishacker Pool.
Sutro Baths was a victim of an arson attack in 1966. It burned to the ground, and the culprit was never apprehended. You can stand on the cliff above, look down, and see the old Sutro pools down below, usually full of sea water washing ashore, but the building is gone forever.
SFCityBear
