Go jump in the lake

Go jump in the lake

CapitolLakeSwimming

This photo, sent to us by the State Archives courtesy of the Susan Parish Photograph Collections, shows the Capitol Lake swimming area in Olympia in 1968. With the record-breaking heat that Western Washington has experienced the past week, this might have been a very popular place to be if it still existed. While this Capitol Lake swim spot is long gone, many Olympia-area kids go to the nearby spray park to cool off nowadays.

3 thoughts on “Go jump in the lake

  1. Oh the good old days, when people had simple, common-sense ideas about simple things, like: a lake can be used for swimming and to compliment the capitol, rather then using it as a drainage pond for the brewery & then turning it into a watery political issue.

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