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Show 1 ; Old Picture Recalls Happy Days at S. H. Swimming Hole Summer days at the old Sugar House swimming hole, located where the post office now stands, were recalled in the Bulletin office this week, by an old photograph brough in by "Sheb" McGhie, lifetime resident resi-dent of this area and now operating oper-ating the Patio Pottery shop on 11th E. The picture, taken about 35 years ago and too dimmed with age to reproduce, shows "Sheb" and a bunch of other Sugar House kids of that era frolicK-ing frolicK-ing in the water of the on! pond that was then in the corner of the coal yard. Others in the picture include Doug McGhie, Ernie Salm, Gene Howells, Cy ril Whitely, Gar Roberts, Ben Davidson, Henry Shurtleff, Clyde Waller, W. T. Davis, Bob Clark, and a few others whom "Sheb" could not positively identify. He recalled that when the train rolled by, just over the fence from the swimming hole, the kids used to duck under to avoid being burned by hot cinders, and that on Saturday afternoons they had to give up the pool in favor of Bill Davies and some of the other "bigger guys" who worked ' around Sugar House and who took over and made it tough on any of the "small fry" who presumed to join them in their weekly swim- |