Go jump in the lake

July 31, 2009

This photo, sent to us by the State Archives courtesy of the Susan Parish Photograph Collections, shows the Capitol Lake swimming area in Olympia in 1968. With the record-breaking heat that Western Washington has experienced the past week, this might have been a very popular place to be if it still existed. While this Capitol Lake swim spot is long gone, many Olympia-area kids go to the nearby spray park to cool off nowadays.
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