My high school is walking distance to the Pacific Ocean but we had an indoor pool. I never saw the inside of the building but I am certain that the kids didn’t skinny dip in the early 80s.
I think it was more common in the Midwest, and back around the 1950’s/early 1960s. The earlier threads on this are pretty interesting. I’m posting from my cell phone or I’d find one to link to.
Burning hydrogen is almost invisible in daylight or regular indoor lighting.
NASA has a problem with hydrogen catching fire, something you wouldn’t want to walk through.
The first method they used to detect the fire is called the broom method. Techs walked around holding a straw broom in front of them.
We had to swim naked at our Ivy League college in 1971 for our swim tests. Suits were allowed, but only of a certain type. Of course, nobody had them for the test. Hell, a surprisingly large number of freshmen couldn’t even swim.
When our local high school was being designed in 1930 the story goes that there was a choice between a swimming pool and a clock tower. The tower (and expanded school - still no pool) still stands - with each of the four clock faces showing a different time. The correct time hasn’t been shown for years.
Some states’ highways follow the odd number means north-south and even number means east-west system.
Route numbering in Georgia, unlike U.S. or Interstate Highway numbering, is in no way related to the location or direction of the route.
And one of the more disconcerting experiences we had was in western Kentucky, where they had (have?) major freeway-type highways that had names but no numbers. I must say that that is surely not a bad thing, but it is not at all what we are accustomed to. Freeways have numbers, and when one does not, it feels weird.
My theory: everyone frowns the same way, except that the British don’t move their mouth because they literally have a stiff upper lip.
None of them do it seems. It’s a pet peeve of mine. I think there should be fines for this.
None of the roads with “parkway” in their name around New York City have route numbers. Most of the highways that do have route numbers also have a name and are referred to by their name or an abbreviation of it (e.g, LIE, BQE).
Freeways in Southern California all have proper names and that’s how we mostly referred to them until a few decades ago. Some believe that’s the reason we still put “the” in front of numbered highways.
Grew up in LA here.
I had an interview here in Denver where I referred to “The 25”. The interviewer told me to stop sounding like I came from LA. A little while later I again unconsciously said “The 25” and he got pissed an said, “Seriously! You need to stop calling it The 25.”
I didn’t get the job (thankfully).
Quebec province renumbered its highways in the 70’s. The Interstate-equivalent roads are numbered in Interstate fashion (odd numbers increasing west to east; even numbers increasing from south to north). Few end in digits other than 0 or 5, and there are two parts of A-440 - 150 miles apart.
Other highways are always three digits - 1xx, 2xx, or 3xx - the higher the first digit, the poorer the quality. So 3xx roads may be mostly gravel.
Expressways and tollways in metropolitan Chicago all have names (even the obscure ones like the Borman Exp’y) but we don’t put “the” before I-90, I-94, etc.
M. Night Shyamalan co-wrote the Stuart Little movie. It explains a lot.
Even though we live in The Land of 10,000 Lakes, we still had swimming classes in junior high (now called middle school). In 1973-76 the boys swam naked. I remember a story going around - the boys had to stand at the edge of the pool before jumping in. One poor guy had an unexpected erection. The teacher wacked him with a ruler - not on his backside but his frontside! It wouldn’t surprise me if it was true.
Attended middle and high school in suburban Twin Cities. School policy in middle school was to provide swim suits for everyone during the swimming portion of gym class. A boy was absent from gym class one day and had to make up a swim exam after school on a later date. He showed up as scheduled for that make-up session, and when he asked the older-than-dirt instructor for a suit, the instructor said he wouldn’t need one as it was just going to be the two of them. The kid quietly left and took an incomplete grade for that exam.
Now a days, that teacher would have lost their credential before the school day was over.
Well, that is backwards to how it is supposed to be done. Kind of like the way Quebecois put their adjectives after the nouns they modify instead of before them as god intended.
Probably due to the fact that there are fewer Interstate-equivalent roads (or any roads) to the east and to the north, so Quebec doesn’t have to worry about running out of numbers at the high end. A-70 and A-85 are the highest primary-numbered routes. There are virtually no roads of any quality north of A-70, and it’s unlikely that any “A” roads would be built east of A-85.