Jose Devine fiddled with a backward flat-brimmed cap while dutifully watching his 10-year-old cousin learn to swim at the Evergreen Community Aquatic Center in White Center.
Devine, 18, reminisced about summers spent there in his younger days, when people would scatter quarters and dimes around the bottom of the pool as part of a childhood game.
“We would go down and pick them up,” he said, adding lightheartedly that the pool’s rules are a tad stricter these days.
The red-brick, single-use pool once seemed destined to remain only a memory to Devine and others who used it for decades.