300x50 meters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Baths
It's a bummer there's nothing like these places there today.
But I remember the thrill of swimming to the centre of the pool and being away from everything. It felt like a real achievement and a little unsafe but in a good way.
I suppose it wasn't easy to maintain and not as "safe".
It actually is closer to the reflecting pool than an Olympic pool
- Olympic pool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool - Reflecting pool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_... - Fleishhacker pool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleishhacker_Pool
The US swimming Olympic tryouts were held there in 1924 and 1952.
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893972/why-arent-there-mor...
Compare that to Kitsilano Pool in Canada. It was consistently repaired and upgraded over time, a fact well documented in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano_Pool
And "for a century" is historically incorrect and revisionist, if you were actually talking about racism, which I don't believe you were.
What was the real point you were trying to make? It sounds to me you're offering "NIMBY", which has nothing to do with race, as an alternative theory to counter the parent's point that it's actually racism, which is extremely well documented and not legitimately contested, and has been going on for a lot longer than a century.
Are you literally saying people don't want swimming pools in their back yards? Really??! That's news to me. Or is it actually that they don't want black people in their public swimming pools? That's not what "NIMBY" means, but mutually exclusively exactly what "racism" means.
At 6,7m gallons (25k cubic meters) volume it was a bit larger and freshwater. The big deal about it was that it was used year round in Moscow. It was quite the experience to swim in it in the winter at -15C. -20C was the official operating limit.
That’s gotta be the biggest swimming pool I’ve seen. I was born in ‘74 (hello, fellow Gen X-er) and we went to various public pools through the summer. The biggest was an “olympic sized” pool 20min driving distance from our house - and this one looks double that from the camera’s perspective.