Public Safety
Former Pool Hoppers Remember Dips in That Middlesex Rd Swimming Pool as Far Back as the 1970s, Even ’60s
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Police may be charging some Darien youths with criminal mischief and trespassing at a particular pool on Middlesex Road that a police spokesman remembers was going on in the 1980s, and that other town residents and former residents say goes back much further — at that swimming pool. On the “You know you are from Darien” Facebook group timeline, some say dips in the pool were a rite of passage in the 1980s. Several say they were doing it in the 1970s. Two said they remembered sneaking into that pool way back in the 1960s. (Was there really a pool there in the 1960s?