re: Show your age

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I started playing there in around 1981 when I was 10-11ish and learning to play from my dad. I remember the pool being there, but it looked like it hadn't been used in a long time and was in disrepair

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I played there as early as the late 60s. Harry Neese was the pro.
The oak trees lined the fairways but they weren’t as big as they are today. It wasn’t as tight. The greens were Bermuda and they were small.
One was an easy 3
Two was a short 4 but the trees could get you.
Three was longer and again trees were trouble with OB left.
Four was a short 4, no water, but the green was on a rise in FYI t of the road. You’d hit down into the bottoms and then back up the slope. A fun hole.
Five was a very tough hole. Par four with a tough tee shot. Too far you were in Dalrymple. Right, trees and water. Left the hole played like a par 5. Second shot had OB left and you had trees along the fairway. The green was really small with two large mounds on it.
Extremely hard four.
Six was anothef good four. The green was elevated on the end of a natural ridge. You hit from the bottoms up yo the shallow green on the ridge. If you missed the green look out.
Seven was another good four, not long but trouble if you hit a bad tee shot from the trees, The green was next to the little creek and it was small. Nice hole coming from the tee high on the ridge back down to the bottoms. Play a draw.
Eight was a killer. Blind par three up a twenty foot hill to a green 210 yards away with a swale in front, Unfair hole really. The green though was a decent size.
Nine was a very short four. Up and fine the natural hills and back up to a nice sized green. There was a pump house on the right and the pool was farther right. The pool was one if those old pools. Probably covered a third of an acre.
You were not to hit over the pool when it was open.
I never played City when the pool was open, They closed it before my time. If you played there with the pool open, you are truly an old timer.
I saw the bees, the old putting green, and as a kid swam in that pool just never played golf there with the pool open.