Though the words, Public Bath House, were written in stone across the top of the building, it was known as the "Bathy" or the "Swimo" to everyone who used it.  Officially, it was located in Tacony, but there was hardly a Wissinoming kid who had not patronized this swimming pool.  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday were girl's days.  Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays were boy's days.  Swimming periods were one hour with no readmission for subsequent hours, a policy enforced by strict inspections for wet hair and wet bathing suits.  This, of course, led to "brush" hair cuts and the unlikely spectacle of youngsters throwing their bathing trunks under the wheels of State Road traffic to dry them out faster.  There wasn't a kid in the neighborhood who hadn't lost at least one set of swim trunks between the back wheels of a tractor-trailer.  The Bathy was demolished to make room for the approaches to the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.

For a good article about the Bathy, see the Philadelphia Daily News for 7 October, 1993, p. NE-6.