[wardaddy]

The Grand Hotel at Point Clear Alabama had a monster too.....lived next to it my senior year of HS at Fairhope.

All tile and about an acre plus some with high dives and whatnot.

I remember tower dives on a lake near Laurel Miss. as a kid. I don't know how high I went but it seemed damned high.

Around here folks cliff dive/jump from 70-100 foot into cave sinkholes with tiny surface areas....some die every year. I almost went off one called Blue Hole near Murfreesboro a few years back and 70 foot or so into about a 500 sq foot surface that was allegedly 30 foot deep. I dove it first for depth and it was about 13 foot deep. I'm tall...I passed.

My highest jumps with tennis shoes on (a must) have been from bridges.

Most hotels and apartments now have no deep end and Ys have dumped their high dives...shame.

[Travis McGee]

We're raising a generation of sissies.