Skinny Dipping at the Y

When I was 7 or so, in the summer, it was time to learn to swim. I was enrolled, along with a bunch of buddies, in swim classes at the Beaumont YMCA on Calder near downtown.

Now here is the weird part: We swam nude! This was just the strangest thing to me then, but we all did it---it was how the Y ran things. I have never heard of any other situation like this in my life. BTW, I did not learn to swim there – but I did learn later at the Municipal Plunge at Magnolia Park near the fair grounds in Beaumont.