International Swimming Hall of Fame Giftshop — Attraction in Fort Lauderdale

It is well equipped but the whole place was built decades ago and has had zero renovations. The pools are falling apart, so are the locker rooms. In the locker rooms, the bathroom stall doors have had their locks removed and pieces of trim are falling off. The ceiling is full of holes. Half the toilets don't even work because the the flushing handles are broken. The water that comes out of the water fountains tastes terrible. The lockers are all rusted, some to the point where the bottom has collapsed. The floor tiles are cracked and broken in many places. Personal anecdote: I was there and one of the pools had so much chlorine it tasted like cement, and there were bits of chicken floating in the pool, including a drumstick, that were there the whole week I swam at that pool. At least the place has two large long course 50 m pools that can be converted to 25 yards side to side, along with a diving well with the ability to dive from any height...

Holy mackerel! I used to swim on sftl back when it was a rusty shell of a facility. In fact my sister swam in the state meet 1958 when the complex extended to the beach. I swam in the 1969 high school state meet for North Miami High School. And here I am 107 years later working out with swim fort Lauderdale and thinking about joining. It's a cross between sftl and the Azures a Venezuelan team located at the David posnick Jewish community center. The 27 M diving platform is an incredible site. I had my first workout last night with the wonderful coach named Brian whom I'd not met before who had the same skill set as Marty Hendrick. Wonderful wonderful wonderful place. I didn't sample the locker rooms or showers because I had...

Flashback to 1980. This place still has full size TVs featuring VHS tapes on past events. Old tarnished medals without any explanation tell a story of short sighted staff. The main feature of the whole place is an area in the back corner featuring a worn out head to "lack of toes" maniquin of the Hawaiian surfer 'Duke". It features him in his final days of life with gray hair and using a cane. The maniquin had fallen so many times the nose has been chipped off, missing a hand, the gray hair is unkept. I lived in Hawaii for 20 years and imiges of him in Waikiki feature him as a hot stud, a properly filled out man swimsuit and surrounded my beautiful females. Please update this crippled...