A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...

Piscine Molitor, once one of Paris's most fashionable public swimming pools, reopened on Monday 85 years after Parisians first entered its tiers of art deco cubicles. This time, though, it's part of a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1924, a 20-year-old Chicagoan fibbed his way into the Olympics and won three gold medals at the swimming competition in Paris. Johnny Weissmuller said he ...

We are talking Race of the Century, and it happened in Indiana. Not cars at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, sprinters on IUPUI’s track, swimmers at the Natatorium, or harness racing featuring Dan ...

MAMBO pays tribute to the late Johnny Weissmuller in this pool bottom mural in Paris. Known best in popular culture for his role in Tarzan, Weissmuller speed to sporting glory in the 1920s when he ...

Long before he prowled the celluloid jungles, Johnny (“Tarzan”) Weissmuller was a national hero. To swimming idolaters of the 1920s, the faces of Babe Ruth, Red Grange and Paavo Nurmi paled before the ...