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Summit Beach Bathers

Posted in Recreation, Summit Beach, Summit Lake

Summit Beach Bathers

by tconte on April 9, 2021

Akron’s Summit Beach Park located on the shores of Summit Lake, provided Akronites with 40 years of recreation and entertainment before closing its gates for good in 1958.

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This Day In History

1929 On this day in 1929, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, the Chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, drove the "golden rivet" in the U.S.S. Akron's first main ring.
1945 On this day in 1945, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company's plane crashed at the Akron Municipal Airport. The crash killed Edward J. Quigley, chief pilot for Firestone and Edward Brown, an engineer in Firestone's research and development office. A. F. Weber, Jr., also an engineer in the development office was badly burned.

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