Arlington Bathing Beach
Description:
During the 1920s Arlington had a bathing beach along the Potomac River, near the present-day Pentagon. A 1923 brochure for the beach hoped to entice visitors from Washington by highlighting "parking facilities such as are seldom found." The beach featured swimming, concessions, canoes, and a ferris wheel. Despite being located near the African American neighborhoods of East Arlington and Queen City, the Arlington Bathing Beach was a segregated whites-only environment. It was closed down in 1929 to make way for expansions to Hoover Airport, today known as National Airport.
Collection:
Community Institutions
Date:
1910-1926
Creator:
None recorded.
Subject
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Rights
There are no known restrictions on the photographs in the National Photo Company Collection.Citation
“Arlington Bathing Beach,” Built By the People Themselves, accessed September 18, 2024, https://lindseybestebreurtje.org/arlingtonhistory/items/show/11.
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