Pastor Jim Holthus, a Lane-area native who serves as a Lutheran minister in Minnesota (go figure) stopped in the True Dakotan office recently with a couple of old pictures of the Springs swimming pool. Jim had taken the photographs in 1970 when he was the lifeguard

The Springs pool -- around 1970-- when Jim Holthus was lifeguard. This is a composite photo of two that he had taken.

A lot of native residents remember the years of the old swimming pool and its five story diving platform on the north end. When 1970 arrived the platform had been replaced by the one-story diving tower (shown above at left). A lifeguard station was added (center of the pool above), but the old slide (right) that now is located in the south park was still in service at the pool. The photo at right shows two girls as they watched “a guy named Terry” perform a pretty good looking jackknife dive. You can see “Terry” above the old cement block bathhouse, in the sky to the right of the water tank. A pretty “cool” bicycle from the ‘70s is shown at left. –Craig Wenzel