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[m lambert]

Camp Shuman Boy Scout was built on Lake Worth in 1920 and is still there. It was built by the Fort Worth Aera Council now the Longhorn Council. Need photos of camp before 1960. In 1930 the council built a new camp near Palo Pinto, Texas called Worth Ranch. The camp is still in operation.
The camp was closed in 2010.

[hinzdl]

There is a another thread Fort Worth Boy Scouts on page one. There maybe some one on that thread who can help. Have a good day

http://www.fortworth...?showtopic=2707

[cajunmike]

You may also want to contact the Longhorn Council BSA. They are now located in Hurst, Texas. Website is www.longhorncouncil.org

For many years I was involved in a Coproate Sponsor to Longhorn BSA and spent many years going out to (SR2) Sid Richardson Scout Ranch

[steave]

The city of Fort Worth Parks and Recreation dept. could buy it and that would be a cheaper way to accomplish it's goal of adding more public swimming pools to the city per their long term plan. Same reason why they just bought the old Eastside YMCA just a month ago or so. Waco also bought a defunct Y for it's pool recently, and then repaired it and reopened it. Seems like a thing city parks depts are doing since the cost of building new aquatics facilities is unusually high for some reason.

[Doohickie]

The city of Fort Worth Parks and Recreation dept. could buy it and that would be a cheaper way to accomplish it's goal of adding more public swimming pools to the city per their long term plan. Same reason why they just bought the old Eastside YMCA just a month ago or so. Waco also bought a defunct Y for it's pool recently, and then repaired it and reopened it. Seems like a thing city parks depts are doing since the cost of building new aquatics facilities is unusually high for some reason.

I wish they would have kept the Kellis Park Pool.  It was still there 10 years ago.

[FunkyTownTay]

 

The city of Fort Worth Parks and Recreation dept. could buy it and that would be a cheaper way to accomplish it's goal of adding more public swimming pools to the city per their long term plan. Same reason why they just bought the old Eastside YMCA just a month ago or so. Waco also bought a defunct Y for it's pool recently, and then repaired it and reopened it. Seems like a thing city parks depts are doing since the cost of building new aquatics facilities is unusually high for some reason.

I wish they would have kept the Kellis Park Pool.  It was still there 10 years ago.

 

 

Had no idea there was a pool there! Found it on Google Streetview. Was there in 2014 and gone in 2015.

[John T Roberts]

The Kellis Park Pool was one of the pools that I frequented when I was a kid.  I also swam at Forest Park and General Dynamics Recreation Area, later Lockheed, and currently REI.  The latter references are for those of you who don't know the history of the area between Bryant Irvin and the Clear Fork of the Trinity. 

[txbornviking]

The Kellis Park Pool was one of the pools that I frequented when I was a kid.  I also swam at Forest Park and General Dynamics Recreation Area, later Lockheed, and currently REI.  The latter references are for those of you who don't know the history of the area between Bryant Irvin and the Clear Fork of the Trinity. 

 

My grandmothers home was walking distance to this Kellis Park Pool and I certainly remember spending summers there as a kid.

Our cities neglect and closure of public pools should be seen as a public embarrassment, but when voter turnout for local elections hovers at 10% or below, there are no consequences for short sighted decisions around public goods

"If Texas' major cities were ranked by the availability of public pools, Fort Worth would be dead last."
https://www.keranews...ew-public-pools

"The city has just two public pools for its more than 870,000 residents, though it is working out deals with partners like the YMCA to increase resident access to swimming facilities. Nearby Dallas has 20 public pools. Austin has 40"
https://www.texassta...w-public-pools/
 

[rriojas71]

It's because people here in FW don't want their taxes to go to create Public pools.  Like most things done in TX if there is no way to make a profit then they don't want it and view it as a waste of money.  Swimming pools were the only thing we looked forward to during the summer when I was a child.  We could not afford to go on family vacations so this was the next best thing for many of us to relieve our summer boredom.

[John T Roberts]

I remember when I was young that we always had to pay a small fee to use the City's swimming pools. 

[steave]

Most public pools in the US charge a entry fee, but I doubt that would begin to cover operations costs and usually that's not the point.

 

In any case I think Fort Worth is a laggard nationally for urban public pools based on what I've read.

 

I don't know what the deal is since I didn't grow up here. When I was growing up we lived in a town near Killeen/Fort Hood and we had two city pools for a population of only 25,000.

 

We would go swimming all the time when I was a kid and they would have to close the gates to the pool because it would reach capacity from all the kids in town overcrowding. Also I am probably one of the younger people here, this was like the year 2000 and we had video games/internet, so I don't buy this "kids nowadays don't want to play outside" argument for lack of usage of parks facilities.

 

More likely, the problem is that the city was not keeping the pools open long enough during the summer or on evenings and not maintaining them well. Reading about the old pools, they were all tiny, hidden away in old forgotten neighborhoods with few families, didn't have enough car parking, and were in sort of bad parts of town. I bet people probably didn't know they existed, and when they tried to visit they'd probably be closed. It sounds like the neglect was cumulative and self-fulfilling.