My grandfather, Wayne Steimle, had been dreaming of putting a pool in his backyard for years. He looked all over for a swimming pool company to help him with his project, but unlike today, swimming pool contractors in the 1950s were scarce. He could never find anyone with industry knowledge and experience to build what he wanted. So in the summer of 1952, he took advantage of his summer break as a high school physics teacher, hired some of his students to help, and launched construction on his backyard dream, armed with little more than a shovel, a wheelbarrow, remarkable ingenuity, and a powerful work ethic.