[Editor's note: It's the last Friday of the summer, so your Flavorwire editors and writers are taking a much-needed break. We'll return to our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, but in the meantime, we'll be revisiting some of our favorite content from the past few months. This post was originally published July 9, 2010.] Even though the East Coast’s brutal, triple-digit heatwave is technically over, we in New York are still sweating it out in under-air conditioned spaces. So, like explorers lost in the desert, we find ourselves daydreaming of water. Of course, we’ve got plenty of it to drink. But what we really want is to be entirely submerged in it. Since we would never skip work to do that, we figured we’d round up 50 swimming pools that have made their mark on pop culture.
1. The Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979″ video
2. Melrose Place
3. Esther Williams in Bathing Beauty
4. The Graduate
5. 3 Women
6. Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover
7. Wild Things
8. Sex and the City‘s Soho House pool
9. Swimming Pool (duh)
10. Dumpster pools
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Sex and the City’s Soho House pool always made me starry eyed!
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I’m sorry, but somebody dropped the ball… “The Swimmer”, starring Burt Lancaster, should definitely be on this list!
two of my favorite pool scenes egregiously overlooked: garden state / “ferris beuller, you’re my hero.”
how about the pool from Ozon’s “Swimming Pool”?
Ozon’s “Swimming Pool” is in there (#9). Couldn’t find a good image/video of the Bueller. And “Garden State”… was left out on purpose.
most of those pools are crap on your 50 list! what about webb pierce’s guitar pool? that’s a pretty awesome pool!! how could you leave that out???
cool pools are more interesting than who fucked who in what pool….
and what about phoebe cates and the fast times pool scene……tooooo classic to be forgotten,
phoebe cates… #28
What about the classic Chanel No. 5 TV ad “Share the Fantasy-1979″ swimming pool. A must!
Hello, what about Lords of Dogtown?
Gatsby’s pool!
Hard to believe that you and the comments missed the most beautiful pool in the United States, the LA Biltmore pool, the movie ‘Cocoon’ was filmed there.
there’s a swimming pool in november rain? are you thinking of don’t cry?
You forgot the pool scene from It’s a Wonderful Life–filmed in the Beverly Hills High’s swim gym!
…what about the Drowned Collector in the Nordic Pavilion at 2009′s Venice Biennale?
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Kylie’s “Slow” music video. Sexy pool.
What about the pool area where Shane Botwin kills Pilar in Weeds? :O
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