There was a chain-link gate at the side of the house, and in the back an aboveground pool.

Decent house, though, with one of those aboveground pools.

An aboveground pool is similarly eradicated.

The teacup was made out of an aboveground pool, and the donut was a giant innertube.

The aboveground pool, a fixture of suburban yards in the 1970's and 1980's, is less prevalent there now.

Mrs. Bonilla said she recently bought her $2,500 aboveground pool, replacing a similar one she bought 30 years ago.

"The aboveground pool mimics a more expensive product and is very affordable to the working class," Mr. Salvane said.

Prices for aboveground pools start at about $1,500, he said, delivered and installed.

They made a beeline for the aboveground pool in the backyard.

He raced past a few more houses, one of them with an aboveground pool covered by a baby-blue tarp for the winter.