The Watkins Brothers started the company in 1947. Doug Watkins, the current owner joined the firm in 1967 working with his father and uncle. The company has done over 35,000 swimming pools, ranging from the simple residential pool or spa to intense commercial jobs such as the top floor of the Hyatt House Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the Playboy Mansion of Hugh Hefner, the mansion of magazine mogul Larry Flynt, the underwater film tank for Paramount Studios- used in filming Baywatch an
d many Hollywood celebrities including: Bob Hope, Charles Bronson, Sammy Davis Jr., Barry Bostwick, Don Rickles, David Heddison, James Whitmore, Andrew Stevens, Pia Zadora, Ernest Borgnine, Jamie Lee Curtis and James Garner to name a few. The company office is filled with the autographed pictures of many stars. The company also worked on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics swimming pools.
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