The City Pool
As a young child growing up in a blue-collar middle class steel mill town we had very few extravagant things we could do. When the malls came in it was a huge deal and also showed what was to become of a great city filled with hard working men and women who loved their family, football, and country in that order. Ashland now stands as shopping Mecca for many in the Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia tri state area but some small reminders of what it was 20 years ago still remain. My friends who still live there have wonderful families and it makes me happy to know they are doing well. On crisp fall Friday nights many families still head down to Historic Putnam Stadium and show up 7,500 strong to root on the Tomcats. My fondest memory of those years were the many days spent at the local city pool about ¼ mile from my house. The pool was larger than life at about 300 feet long and ranging in depth from 6 inches to 10 feet. It was wonderful place to spend a summer day with more than enough activities to keep you busy all day. Its sad to say the have since filled in the pool and no longer operate any of the other city pools that existed when I was a child. Things have changed in Ashland but I still look back on it as wonderful place to grow up.
Thomas
SWIM SPAS – GROWING IN POPULARITY
Our clients love their pools and they love their hot tubs. Now they can have both contained in the same vessel. 
We started selling swim spas a couple of years ago and didn’t know what to expect as far as sales. While we had done our research we were still surprised to see that the market for swim spas is growing rapidly. While it used to be ‘get a spa and sit there’ or get ‘get a pool and float around’, people are demanding more. Our Swim Spas allow you to have a small pool where you can do resistance swimming against a water current generated by special jets that move about 270 gallons a minute through them. Want to relax? Just turn off the jets and you have a traditional pool, albeit smaller. Then again, the entire swim spa is over sixteen feet long so it’s really not that small. One end is equipped with a standard hot tub so it truly is the best of both worlds. For those of you out there that have a swim spa, I’d like to hear what you like the best about it. –Max
