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I heard about these houses from this photo, slightly more dramatic than mine.
As I said there: my friend who grew up in Ojai says he heard lots of rumors about this place in high school, including that it was the home of a princess. Apparently the official name for it is Casa Blanca at Sand Point, and the clubhouse/poolhouse was built in the 1920s (designed by George Washington Smith), but most of the development was rebuilt in the 90s. There's a house listing from a couple years ago here.
THE GRAND OPENING
Fifteen hundred people attended the opening ceremonies May 6, 1912,opened by Mayor RD Waugh. Waugh a big recreation advocate in Winnipeg had been trying to get the Pritchard Pool built for years. Finally in 1909 ratepayers approved the $50,000 budget. Located at the corner of Charles St and Pritchard Ave, and costing $50,000, the Pritchard Baths tank measured 79 by 68 feet and was 2.5 to 7 feet deep. It had 38 dressing rooms, 72 lockers and 17 individual shower stalls plus 31 children's showers.
Everyone had to shower going in. A sterilizing machine guaranteed healthy supplies of bathing suits and towels which rented for a nominal 10 cents. Civic planners wanted a modest charge so that the pool would not be seen as a charity. While an orchestra played, a swimming show was given by Mrs Harrison and R Ernest Collins, a man with only one leg. Percy Cox officiated at the first water polo game ever held in Winnipeg. And the Manitoba Swim Club demonstrated scientific swimming. Staff had been hired to teach swimming. Mr J Harris would be teaching swimming to men, while Mrs Harris a bronze medal winner from the Royal Life Saving Society would instruct women.
EARLY SWIMMING SPOTS
There were only two places to swim in Winnipeg at the turn of the century. The only indoor pool was at the YMCA. The city operated an outdoor area with poolhouse along the Red River 200 yards east of the Louise Bridge. Elm Park a peninsula surrounded by the Red was another popular spot. The first indoor pool was the Cornish Baths built in 1909, followed by the Pritchard Baths in 1912. The plan was to set up pools in every district.
PUBLIC HOURS
The sexes were not allowed to swim together. Men had the pool on Mondays. Thursdays were women only days. Strangely children were not permitted to use the pool on Sunday. During the rest of the week men had the pool from 10-12 while women had it from 1-10pm.
INDOOR POOLS WERE NOT AN EARLY SUCESS
Indoor pools proved to be a shallow success. Expensive to operate, they received less use than expected. The Cornish Baths lasted 20 years and were closed in 1930. The Sherbrook Pool was built to take over this function in 1931. In the same year an outdoor pool opened at Sargent Park: the biggest in western Canada.
The Pritchard baths closed down in 1948 and were replaced by an outdoor pool. Never a success the outdoor pool was closed down and the new Kildonan Park pool opened in 1966 as a replacement for the Pritchard Pool. In 1970 a new indoor pool was built on the Old Exhibition grounds as a centennial project. Finally the north end had an indoor pool again.
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Archives of Manitoba
Still Images Section.
Winnipeg -Buildings
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Collection
Item 1. Negative 4861.
The poolhouse looks forlorn...:(
This was taken two days ago. Odile's clouds are still here. We are having light rain and drizzles. The forecast is that the clouds will still be here with increasing rain through the coming weekend. We can expect flooding...
IMG_8873 - Version 2
episode 2 and after:
the permanent set appears in episode two.
the couch faces the window seat. i don't like the plaid curtains either. but overall, this is cool.
Poolhouse
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Poolhouse
Gevelbekleding en terras in Afrikaans padoek
Realisatie : Schrijnwerkerij Loncke
Poolhouse
Bardage et terrasse en Padouk Africain
Réalisation : Menuiserie Loncke
Poolhouse
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Poolhouse
Bardage et terrasse en Padouk Africain
Fixation invisible en utilisant le Connector Outdoor Wood Concepts
Réalisation : Menuiserie Loncke - Zwevegem
The indoor Roman Pool design consists of more than a million Murano glass tiles, some of which contain a layer of gold leaf inside. The main basin of the pool is 81 feet (25 meters) long and 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
Eden Park, owned and operated by the Cincinnati Park Board, is located in the Mt. Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio. The park began as the designation for the city's water supply, purchased in 1859. However, early on the city saw that the area could also serve the dual purpose of city park. The park area was originally designed by noted landscape architect Adolph Strauch, who also was responsible for Spring Grove Cemetery.
At Eden Park, they’ve recorded the voice of Imogene Remus, who was murdered by her husband, infamous bootlegger George Remus. “Her ghost is said to be [at the gazebo],” Smith says, “and we’ve caught meters answering questions, we’ve caught her voice over the years answering stuff.”
Eden Park Drive is the scene of a horrific murder; the murderer got off with no time done.
A prolific bootlegger in Cincinnati during the prohibition in the 1920's was a guy by the name of George Remus. He went to prison for his illegal activities and ended up serving his time in the Federal Prison in Atlanta. He befriended a fellow inmate and told him all about his plans and the operations and how he trusted his wife, Imogene enough to give her full power of attorney over his assets. Frank Dodge, the inmate he befriended, was an undercover FBI agent. He resigned from his investigating of the prison warden and went to Cincinnati to seduce Imogene. They both tried to hire a hitman to kill George,but it failed. When George was released from prison, he found out, was furious and ended up filing for divorce. On their way to court George saw Imogene's taxi and tried to run it off the road. They both got out of the car and started to argue. George took out his pistol and killed her. George got off with no time due to pleading temporary insanity.
Imogene Remus was wearing a black dress when she died and there has been many to claim that they have seen a woman in a black dress standing in the gazebo. The spirit usually appears at dusk or late at night, but if approached, she vanishes.
George Remus practiced law, made millions, built a mansion in Price Hill, and killed his wife in Eden Park
Before the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, George Remus had built a successful law practice in Chicago.
As a criminal defense attorney who crusaded against capital punishment, he earned as much as $50,000 a year, an extremely lucrative income at the time.
But after the onset of the Prohibition era, he realized that some of his clients had become far wealthier than he was by illegally selling liquor.
Unable to resist the lure of vast riches, Remus, a lifelong teetotaler, turned to bootlegging in 1919, the year Congress passed the Prohibition laws. In 1920, Remus closed his law office and moved to Cincinnati because of the many whiskey warehouses and distilleries within a 300-mile radius.
Remus, who was divorced, brought along his girlfriend, Imogene Holmes. He promptly married her in Newport and bought a mansion in Price Hill
In just a few years, the flamboyant Remus earned hundreds of millions of dollars, lived lavishly and became known as “The King of the Bootleggers.” He is said to have been F. Scott Fitzgerald’s model for Jay Gatsby, the title character of his novel, “The Great Gatsby.”
But his rise to riches ended quickly. He was sent to federal prison in 1924 for conspiring to violate Prohibition laws. While he was in prison, his wife had an affair with the undercover FBI agent who helped convict him. She filed for divorce and liquidated and hid his assets.
On Oct. 6, 1927 – six weeks after his release from prison and the day his divorce was to become final – Remus chased down Imogene in Eden Park, shoved a gun in her stomach and pulled the trigger. She died that day at Bethesda Hospital.
“I am now at peace after two years of hell,” said Remus at a press conference in his Cincinnati jail cell that day, the Enquirer reported Oct. 7. “I’m satisfied I’ve done right.”
The murder and Remus’ sensational five-week trial received national attention. To the shock of the nation, the jury found Remus not guilty by reason of insanity.
After nearly six months in a mental hospital in Lima, Ohio, Remus returned to Cincinnati. He lived modestly and quietly in Covington and died in 1952 at the age of 79. He is buried in Falmouth.
But his reputation as one of the most notorious and colorful criminals in the annals of bootlegging and Cincinnati history lives on. This fall, PBS will broadcast a six-hour documentary by Ken Burns that prominently features Remus. Called “Prohibition,” it will air from 8-10 p.m. Oct. 2-4.
Remus was a shrewd attorney with a flair for courtroom oratory. By strange coincidence, his most famous criminal case involved a Cincinnati man accused of murdering his wife during a visit to Chicago because he thought she was having an affair with another man.
William Cheney Ellis was found guilty of the murder, but Remus succeeded in persuadingthe jury to give him a 15-year prison sentence instead of the death sentence.
Remus’ background served him well when he entered the bootlegging business. Using a loophole in federal laws, Remus, still a licensed pharmacist, bought liquor ostensibly to distribute to drug companies for legal sale for medical purposes. Instead, he diverted it for mass distribution.
He moved the cases of whiskey to barns on 50 acres between Queen City and Boudinot avenues on the West Side that he bought from a farmer. He operated his empire from a building at Race and Pearl streets he named after himself.
Remus, a bald, portly man, used some of his wealth to indulge his love of fine food, art, literature and swimming.
His Price Hill estate at 825 Hermosa Ave., was bordered by West Eighth St., Greenwich Avenue, St. Lawrence Avenue and Rapid Run Pike. He filled his mansion with exquisite furniture, art and rare books – and once bought out the inventory of a Cincinnati jewelry store and passed them out as party favors at a New Year’s Eve bash he hosted.
He spent $100,000 in 1921 to construct a Grecian swimming pool and a building to house it on his estate. His estate also included a tennis court, a grape arbor, a caretaker’s cottage, a stable and a baseball diamond.
“Remus permitted the neighborhood children to play ball on his property,” said Joyce Meyer, a member of the Price Hill Historical Society’s board of directors. “Kids sometimes would sneak into his pool to swim. He knew they were there, but let them swim.”
The mansion and poolhouse on his former estate were torn down in 1935. Another house was built on the property later. The large iron gate from the Remus estate’s main entrance on Hermosa now graces the entrance to Elder High School.