LebTown
January 12, 2021 6 min read
Local historian Sue Hostetter points towards the former location of the Million Gallon Pool, near Route 117 and Butler Road. (Jeff Falk)
Some numbers in our culture take on lives of their own. They take on figurative meanings outside of their literal defintion.
Take a ‘million’ for instance.
It’s great to have a million bucks, but it’s also good to look that way.
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And a million gallon pool? Well, that just sounds cool.
So how much is a million gallons? What does this oversized basin actually look like? And most importantly – can one go swimming in this million gallon pool?