What Pool Innovation Premiered in 1936?

And the answer is ...

d) underwater lighting

Mayor LaGuardia flipped the switch to display the new underwater lighting system at the Sunset Pool in 1936. LaGuardia, the name behind one of New York's two primary airports, is also immortalized in New York culture as the subject of a popular Broadway musical in the 1960s, called Fiorello!

New York Trivia Tuesday

New York is home to 54 public pools, which open to the sweating residents of NYC every summer. The pools began as "public baths" at the beginning of the 20th century, and locals went there both to bathe and to just cool off. When bigger pools were made in the 1930s to accommodate the thousands of people who would flock there.

In 1936, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia presided over the opening of Sunset Pool in Brooklyn, where he showed off the latest technological innovation in public pools. It was the:

a) water filter
b) hot tub
c) diving board
d) underwater lighting