Comments on: Then 'Lady Life Guards' of 1940s Brooklyn

By: pmocek

pmocek — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:23:00 +0000

The video is already hosted by Internet Archive. Why send people to view it with YouTube’s advertising?

http://archive.org/embed/LadyLifeguar

By: jayson

jayson — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Was this filmed at a “whites-only” beach?
Good Lord.

By: Wm Kiernan

Wm Kiernan — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:03:00 +0000

Wow, after the rescue, her hair dried really quick!

By: JeffreyMartin360Cities

JeffreyMartin360Cities — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:26:00 +0000

I guess that 50 years before this, the great innovation was the advent of Irish lifeguards, who previously in the United States were not considered fully human either.

By: Oliver Crosby

Oliver Crosby — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:10:00 +0000

I have to say, I took my lifeguard training about 6 years ago, and this video appears to be significantly more thorough and challenging then what I underwent. Now that I employ lifeguards, I’m often careful about who I pick. There were a lot of people who got certified alongside me who I wouldn’t trust to save a life.

I wouldn’t hesitate to hire any of the women… Except that they’re all really really old now.

By: DisGuest

DisGuest — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:21:00 +0000

Butch? I’ve never heard anyone use this term before. What time period was it in and where in the country?

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:44:00 +0000

From what I remember when I was a kid, the only real dangers the guards at the public pool faced were sunburn and laryngeal polyps from all the yelling. And for some reason, they all called the little boys “Butch.” It has to be tougher working at the sea or the beach of a lake.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:31:00 +0000

I had no idea lifeguard training was that rigorous. I wonder if it still is.

By: PaulDavisTheFirst

PaulDavisTheFirst — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:28:00 +0000

“many hours [ ... ] to start the victum breathing again” … say what?

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Those men lined up right quick for their turn at the Prone Pressure Method.

By: jimh

jimh — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:23:00 +0000

War-Era Baywatch.
In fact, while watching I imagined some Baywatch footage converted to BW, digitally aged, and cut to this VO!

By: Tim Harrington

Tim Harrington — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:20:00 +0000

So basically “Baywatch.”

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:18:00 +0000

I think this was our grandparents’ idea of pornography.