Hayes Park East Pool on Waydell Street, Ironbound

 

Hayes Park East Pool 

- Persons dressed only in bathingsuits permitted in pool area

- Do not dress or undress on pool deck 

- No running, diving, pushing, ball playing, dunking, eating or drinking in pool area

- No food, drinks, face masks, baby carriages, floats. 

Hayes Park East Pool in 1983. 

Carlos Hugo enjoys a dip at Hayes Park East pool in 1977.

1947.

Clifton Ave Pool (here in the early 1960s) changed its name to Rotunda Pool in the 1940s. Joseph Ralph Rotunda was the first soldier from Newark’s Italian-American community to die in World War II. He had a city pool named after him.

Clifton Avenue Pool in 1941.

Angela DeGennaro Lucas wrote: Originally called Clifton Pool when it opened. Later it became Rotunda pool named for, I believe, the first serviceman from the neighborhood to lose his life in WWII.

Boylan Street Pool in 1951.

Boylan Street pool in 1960. 

Karen Pellow wrote: Wasn't this at one time called the 'Polio Pool' and shut down?

Jacqueline Janson Burge answered: Actually, some called it "The Polio Pit".

Gene O'Mullan added: In the early 1950s every place children frequented was considered a 'polio pit'.

Debra Evans said: My mom wouldn’t let my older siblings go there because of the polio scare.

Rosemarie Michele:  I went there almost every day;  free to get in the morning, ten cents in the afternoon! Loved it.

Hayes Park East Pool was situated on Waydell Street between Ferry St. & Raymond Boulevard.

The green lot seen from the satellite - between Ferry Street & Raymond Boulevard - is where the Hayes Park East Pool was located with a public entrance from Waydell Street.