I took swimming lessons as a young teenager at the Moore basement pool from an aged Helene Madison, a former Olympic gold medal swimmer, in the 1950’s. As I remember the pool had a very low ceiling and several large pillars in the pool holding up the ceiling. Some years later as a young lawyer, I represent the Seattle production of the musical Hair when it performed at the Moore and had received bomb threats for ripping off the hippy movement. Tom
Wikipedia:
She won three gold medals in freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games.… In sixteen months in 1930 and 1931, she broke sixteen world records in various distances. Following the 1932 Olympics she appeared in the films The Human Fish and The Warrior’s Husband and hence, as a professional, was not allowed to participate in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. After her swimming career, she did odd jobs as a swimming instructor, department store clerk and a nurse. Divorced thrice and living alone, she died of cancer in 1970 in Seattle, Washington.
I took swimming lessons as a young teenager at the Moore basement pool from an aged Helene Madison, a former Olympic gold medal swimmer, in the 1950’s. As I remember the pool had a very low ceiling and several large pillars in the pool holding up the ceiling. Some years later as a young lawyer, I represent the Seattle production of the musical Hair when it performed at the Moore and had received bomb threats for ripping off the hippy movement. Tom
Wikipedia:
She won three gold medals in freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games.… In sixteen months in 1930 and 1931, she broke sixteen world records in various distances. Following the 1932 Olympics she appeared in the films The Human Fish and The Warrior’s Husband and hence, as a professional, was not allowed to participate in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. After her swimming career, she did odd jobs as a swimming instructor, department store clerk and a nurse. Divorced thrice and living alone, she died of cancer in 1970 in Seattle, Washington.