Editing Buster Crabbe (section)

==Later years==
Crabbe's Hollywood career waned somewhat in the 1950s and 1960s, and he became a stockbroker and businessman during this period. According to David Ragan's ''Movie Stars of the '30s'', Crabbe owned a [[Southern California]] swimming pool-building company in later years. In the mid-1950s, Crabbe purchased the [[Adirondack Mountains|Adirondack]] campus of the Adirondack-Florida School,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adirondackmuseum.net/adirondackmuseum.net-asp//paradise/detail.asp?id=170|title=Adirondack Museum|publisher=Adirondack Museum|access-date=June 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403181952/http://www.adirondackmuseum.net/adirondackmuseum.net-asp/paradise/detail.asp?id=170|archive-date=April 3, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> which advertised itself as a swim camp, called Camp Meenahga, for boys aged eight to fourteen, with most of the campers coming from Montreal.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} He was also the aquatics director at the [[Concord Resort Hotel]] in New York State's [[Catskill Mountains]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1962/07/02/the-sour-cream-sierras-of-new-york|title=The Sour Cream Sierras of New York|work=Sports Illustrated Vault &#124; SI.com }}</ref>

During this period, Buster joined the swimming pool company Cascade Industries in [[Edison, New Jersey]]. In his capacity as Vice President of Sales, promoter, and spokesman for Cascade, "the world's first 'package pool' company", he attended shopping mall openings and [[fair]]grounds, combining the promotion of his swim camps and Cascade's vinyl liner for in-ground swimming pools. A pool line was named after him, and swimming pools were sold by "Buster Crabbe Dealers" throughout the eastern seaboard and southern states from 1952 until 1990.

Though he followed other pursuits, he never stopped acting. But his career in the 1950s, and later, was limited to low-budget films, including westerns such as ''[[Gunfighters of Abilene]]'' (1960) co-starring Barton MacLane, ''[[Arizona Raiders]]'' (1965) co-starring Audie Murphy, and ''[[The Bounty Killer (film)|The Bounty Killer]]'' (1965) co-starring Dan Duryea and Rod Cameron. Crabbe appeared as the father of a young swimmer in the comedy ''Swim Team'' (1979), and as a sheriff in the low-budget horror film ''[[Alien Dead]]'' (1980), followed by ''[[The Comeback Trail (1982 film)|The Comeback Trail]]'' (1982), one year before his death. Crabbe also appeared in television commercials<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/974/Flash+Gordon+Conquers+The+Universe+(VCI)|title=Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe|publisher=Fulvuedrive-in.com|date=March 20, 2006 |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> for [[Hormel]] Chili, [[Icy Hot]], and the [[Magic Mold Bodyshirt]], an upper body male girdle of sorts, which purportedly helped in weight loss. Through Icy Hot, he was actively involved in arthritis education. Despite his numerous film and television appearances, he is best remembered today as one of the original cinema action heroes of the 1930s and 1940s.

In the 1950s, two published comic book series were named after him. [[Eastern Color]] published 12 issues of ''Buster Crabbe Comics'' from 1951 to 1953, followed by [[Lev Gleason]]'s four issues of ''The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe'' in 1954.

In 1965, he was inducted into the [[International Swimming Hall of Fame]]. During his senior swimming career, Crabbe set 16 world and 35 national records.<ref name=ishof/> He continued swimming through his sixties and in 1971 set a world record in his age group.<ref name=sr/>