Ask people who have grown up in Fishtown about their memories of summertime, and a common response might be the sight of an open fire hydrant spewing water into the street and the smiling faces of their young friends running through the spray.

It's a summertime memory of a bygone era but, thanks to Philadelphia's budget crunch, residents might see the sight returning to neighborhood streets.

That's because when Mayor Michael Nutter announced the results of the "Splash and Summer Fund" earlier this month, Fishtown's community pool wasn't on the list.

The fund, announced in February, was created to help keep city pools open throughout this summer after budget cuts threatened to keep all but 10 of the more than 70 neighborhood pools dry.

In order to open 46 of the city's 76 public, outdoor pools this summer, the city will use $429,141 in donations collected mostly from corporate sponsors.

That amount is a portion of the total $621,141 that was collected to support the pools.

This includes contributions totaling $597,500 made by a number of local organizations and corporate entities along with an additional $23,641 donated by public citizens through the United Way.

The remaining $192,000 was donated with the provision that the funds be spread across a three-year period.

The city plans to use the remaining funds to keep pools open in the future.

Still, some neighborhoods have been left to wonder how they ended up without a local watering hole to call their own.

In the Fishtown and Kensington 19125 ZIP code, not one pool will be open this summer.

"This seems like an invitation to open up fire plugs in the summertime," said A.J. Thomson, a longtime community organizer in Fishtown. "It makes no sense. It seems like we get the short end of the stick."

When budget cuts were announced in November of last year, the city said they would have to shutter all but about 10 pools this summer.

Since then, Nutter established the "Splash and Summer Fund" in order to help provide donated funding to keep as many pools open as possible.

But, some residents in Fishtown, like Thomson, are concerned that, while 46 city pools will open, popular local pools will not.

Nearby pools like Cohocksink at Cedar and Cambria, the Samuel Rec Center pool at Gaul and Tioga streets and the pool at the East Poplar Rec center at 8th and Poplar streets, will be saved. Others, like the Fishtown pool at Montgomery Avenue and Moyer Street, the Cione pool at Aramingo and Lehigh, and the Northern Liberties pool at 321 Fairmount Ave. will not.

"I'm happy that some of the pools that were supposed to be closed will be open, but, did they do it fairly?" questioned Andrew Christman.

Christman, a Fishtown resident who said he took his 3-year-old son to the Fishtown pool on a regular basis last year, thinks the city is targeting Fishtown and surrounding communities for cuts. He felt same way when City Hall said they would close the neighborhood library on Montgomery Avenue last November.

"This smacks of what they did last year," he said. "(With these selected pools) there is nothing within walking distance for residents of Fishtown and Port Richmond."