Columbus, Ohio recent comments:

Location closed due to COVID-19. Equipment is now missing but some remanences remain.

formerly a railyard

It's been a while since I've tried editing this map, so I tried to do a rough outline just now (Apr 2022) and will refine it as I work on a project that involves mapping and placement of attractions within the park.

Gut remodel on 1990 addition completed in June 2016. New patio in the rear connects to the Topiary Park.

Torn down 2015. New residential apartments/condos being built

Their daughter's name was Shelly. I swam on the swim team from 1959 to 1963 when we moved. I lived there every summer. We had practice at 7 am and I wouldn't go home until evening. Remember dancing by the jukebox. Not sure when they built the pool in back but that's where we practiced and had swim meets. I have pictures of the swim team. I loved that place. People still don't believe me when I tell them how big it was.

the next detroit

As of September 2018, no longer a Sunoco retailer

I remember Swimland and how enormous it was. I also remember the Case family. I believe they had a daughter named Kim.

There was never a mention of reopening Swimland.

Does anyone have any photographs of Swimland? They are surprisingly rare. I'd even just like to have a picture of the logo on the sign out front. Thanks, Mark Westerville, Ohio

Me, too! R. Olin Ross, George Thomas, Twila Tharp, Mr. Ferber...

Swimland was a huge part of my childhood. My sister and cousins and I went most days during the summer because we got a pool pass. My aunt practically lived there when she was a kid. I learned to swim there; my cousin taught me by slowly bringing me deeper and deeper into the water and showing me how to kick, and when I was older my aunt taught me how to swim underwater without holding my nose. It was a major feat the first time we went off the diving boards, especially the high dive. I remember every hour an announcement would come over the loudspeaker: "It is ... o'clock, everybody out. Time for a ten minute rest period." And everyone would scramble to the Snack Shack to get some sugar before we could get back in the water. Chick-s-sticks, Laffy Taffy, Mambas, Air Heads... Their pizza was cafeteria quality but it was a big treat to be able to buy one of the large sharing size ones. And we had ambitions of getting a job there when we were 14 because they would hire you that young. Paulsen was the head guy and everyone was worried he might kick us out if we acted up. The bathrooms were dank and questionable and you only went in there if you really couldn't hold it anymore. There was a large rotating door with metal bars to exit.

Arthur Boke was not a slave. Slavery was prohibited in Ohio according to the Northwest Ordinance. Arthur Boke was born to a slave out of state, but abandoned, and raised by the Sullivants as an adopted child. His the first documented African American resident of Columbus. http://teachingcolumbus.tumblr.com/post/75232914133/arthur-boke-jr-the-first-african-american-in

Worthington Park Elementary School is adjacent to the North.

Nice stores, but there are no directions. Every thing is in km. what happen to miles? For someone who doesn't know how th get there, they would never make it without directions.

I grew up in Hanford Village. A subdivision of small cape cod homes were built in 1946 and marketed to African American veterans returning from service in WWII. My father was a Tuskegee airman and he purchased a home in the new development for our family after he was discharged from the military. Everybody knew each other and parents watched out for all the children in the neighborhood. A true "village". My father passed away in the 1980s and my mother lived there until 2009. It was a great place to grow up in the 50s and 60s.

Bob Evans was here until the late 90s when they moved near the freeway. After that, several different signs were put up, most of these never even opened.

Was an Italian restaurant in the 80s, car stereo shop in the 90s