Considering the number of holidays in this season and that no night was done, this was a record time for constructing a building of this size and type.
The Casino Pool in 1964 with the construction of the Hall of Fame museum behind it. Records indicate the pool cost $125,000, and measured 50.38 meters by 18.3 meters (165 feet long and 60 feet wide / 55 yards by 20 yards).
It hosted the “college swim forum” beginning in 1935, a Christmastime swim meet with all the vacationing swim teams in the area, and continued all the way until 1965 when the new Hall of Fame was built in its place. The facility received its name for replacing the city’s original beach “casino,” a two-story wooden structure which contained dressing rooms and a dance floor, but no pool. Rawls was the two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 3m springboard in 19. The Casino Pool was home to the nation’s top swimmers for decades, namely, Katherine Rawls, Fort Lauderdale’s first celebrity of sport and international athletic ambassador. Alexander Park, just south of Las Olas Boulevard, this beautiful Spanish-style facility was engineered by Clifford Root and filled twice a week with salt water directly from the Atlantic Ocean.
Located directly on the beach at what is now known as D.C.
