What costumes they wore!

Girls of yore who were athletic!

Here I've found some lovely bathing beauties...

Women in bathing suits at the Houston Heights Natatorium, 1907. Can you imagine swimming in such things? Maybe you could "dog paddle" but that seems like it would be as much as you can do.

This awesome photo is courtesy the George Cook Collection in the Degolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. Posted on Facebook under Traces of Texas.

Early Olympic swimmers...
 

And maybe just for looks...

 


Shared on Facebook from Karen Connel, her father being the 10 year old boy on left at the Natatorium in Belton, 1944. Traces of Texas.

And more recently...


Mary Lou Retton won gold, bronze and silver in 1984 at the Olympics, so I started watching the American women's gymnastics meets.  I'd never done gymnastics, but sure enjoyed seeing these young women stretch themselves to perform in gold medal ways.  My middle son married a woman who also had participated in amateur gymnastics and their three daughters have as well.

I'm sharing these pictures as part of Sepia Saturday this week.  



Today's Quote:

All things have the ability to be healed.
Miracles happen with every breath, believe that.