Another brilliant idea. I’m full of them!

Imagine swimming in one of these?

I’ve been saying for years now that I’m an idea guy…big on ideas, poor on execution. 

I first read a few years ago that some uber-hipsters took a 30 yard trash dumpster, put in a pool liner, and created a night club/country club/oasis on the banks of the Gowanas Canal.  I’ve only dreampt of being cool enough to think of going to such a place.  The cynical New Yorker in me thought dumpster, Gowanas, toxic waste…you do the math. 

So now they’re going to put one on Park Avenue.  Not Park Avenue around the corner from where I grew up…I mean THE Park Avenue.  In Manhattan.  And who are they appealing to?  The industry mogul that’s too lazy to head out to the Hamptons?  What, the pool at the Waldorf Astoria is closed for renovations? 

While a 30 yard dumpster is essentially a rectangular above-ground pool, I figured why not improve it?  Go bigger.  And again, use something that’s relatively available.  Ocean containers.  40′ open tops, to be exact.  OK, open tops are much rarer than standard boxes, but there is no roof…there is no need cut the roof off a standard container.

Now the benefit is not only can you dive in (not from a board, but you can do laps!  Most of these dumpster pools are for cooling off, not serious swimming.  Sure, it’s not Olympic sized, but you get the drift.  Fill one side with sand to raise the floor to create a “shallow end”.  You can bring them into the neighborhoods and teach the kids to swim. 

Ahh…the 40′ open top container pool…I’ll leave it to the engineers and bean counters to hash out the details.