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Thousands See Diving Star Perform In Public Pools

Reel Number: 221106-43

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1929

Country: USA

Location: pa,Pittsburgh

TC Begins: 15:16:48

TC Ends: 15:18:06

Duration: 00:01:18

Thousands See Diving Star Perform In Public Pools Aileen Riggin, Queen of Mermaids, is brought to city by Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, PA: Aileen Riggin poses w/ Mayor Kline ?. Title ‘At Ormsby Pool, in the South Side, she gives her first exhibition’. Three shots Riggin performs dives from low board; congratulated by group of women in swimming costumes. Title ‘South Hills residents at Phillips Park Carrick Plunge see her dive a la Olympics’. Crowd watches Riggin perform vars acrobatic dives. Mayor Kline gives Riggin award. 1920s Bathing Suit Fashions. (Eileen won a gold medal in Antwerp 1920 in the first women's Olympic springboard event)

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