Old Street Scenes

[427TJ]

Here's a neat old place I was too young to experience. Sutro Baths was built on the coast of San Francisco next to the Cliff House in 1895. It was a salt-water swimming and recreation center and later had ice skating rinks installed in the late 1940s. It went downhill in the 1950s and by the early 1960s it was on very hard times and finally closed in about 1963. There was a dispute between the city and the land owner as to what would become of the baths and when it could not be resolved the baths mysteriously burned down on June 26, 1966.

Aerial view 1930s:



Entrance, 1938:



1946:



Interior c1955:



Entrance, 1955:



Aerial view 1964:



Up in smoke, 6-26-66: