There was no clubhouse or pool, the bathing facilities were residential utility buildings with toilets and aluminum showers.

Banish that ticing dame from forth your mouth, / And follow your foreseeing starres in all; / This is no life for men at armes to liue, / Where daliance doth consume a Souldiers strength, / And wanton motions of alluring eyes / Effeminate our mindes inur'd to warre.

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Just look at John. He's really handsomely turned out.