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Kary Hess
Jun 17, 2025
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While this looks a lot like the Petaluma Public Swimming Pool in the 70s, it isn’t. It’s a stock photo from Yiquan Zhang on Unsplash

In our last writing workshop it was noted that in every workshop, someone brings up the Petaluma Swimming Pool as a place of note, specifically from the 70s or 80s, when us Gen Xers were dropped off for the day all summer w…

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