Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink - Revision history

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	:''San Francisco’s historic Sutro Baths and accompanying museum of curiosities, open to the public in 1869, hang from a cliffside like a glass-paned floating castle. The forward-thinking entrepreneur and former mayor of the city, [[~~Mayor~~ Adolph Sutro\|Adolph Sutro]], is the visionary and financier behind the project, developed to provide recreation for San Franciscans and for tourists visiting the city. The many enormous indoor swimming pools are built at sea level, and are fed by the ocean. Sutros boasts the world's largest indoor swimming pool. Numerous exhibits on the floors above the pools house curious antiquities from the travels of the eccentric Mr. Sutro. Relics displayed include extensive collections of historic artifacts, a broad assortment of taxidermy specimens, and a large number of oddities. Materials used in building Sutro’s include 600 tons of iron, 100,000 square feet of glass, 10,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 3,500,000 feet of lumber. During high tides, ocean water flows directly into the indoor pools, recycling two million gallons of freezing seawater an hour. During low tides, a huge turbine water-pump built inside a natural cave at sea level fills tanks at a rate of 6,000 gallons per minute, recycling the water inside in just five hours! The pools, or baths as they are known, are entered by into by swimmers via diving platforms, slides, trampolines, flying rings, toboggans, and swings. Ten thousand people at a time can be accommodated at the Sutro Baths, which rents out woolen bathing suits as well as towels to all visitors. Facilities include six saltwater pools and one freshwater pool with a total water-holding capacity of two million gallons. Sutro's also houses a 2,700-seat amphitheater, meeting rooms with a capacity for 1,100 people, and 517 private dressing rooms. The baths are served by two rail lines built especially for Sutros: the [[Cliff House Steam Railroad\|“Ferry And Cliff-House Railroad”]], which runs along the western end of San Francisco, and the “Land’s End Railroad,” originating from downtown. Eventually, the baths are closed down and are covered over by an Olympic-sized skating rink. It and the exhibits above remain until Sutro’s burns down in 1966, almost 100 years after it originally opened. ''		:''San Francisco’s historic Sutro Baths and accompanying museum of curiosities, open to the public in 1869, hang from a cliffside like a glass-paned floating castle. The forward-thinking entrepreneur and former mayor of the city, [[Adolph Sutro\|Adolph Sutro]], is the visionary and financier behind the project, developed to provide recreation for San Franciscans and for tourists visiting the city. The many enormous indoor swimming pools are built at sea level, and are fed by the ocean. Sutros boasts the world's largest indoor swimming pool. Numerous exhibits on the floors above the pools house curious antiquities from the travels of the eccentric Mr. Sutro. Relics displayed include extensive collections of historic artifacts, a broad assortment of taxidermy specimens, and a large number of oddities. Materials used in building Sutro’s include 600 tons of iron, 100,000 square feet of glass, 10,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 3,500,000 feet of lumber. During high tides, ocean water flows directly into the indoor pools, recycling two million gallons of freezing seawater an hour. During low tides, a huge turbine water-pump built inside a natural cave at sea level fills tanks at a rate of 6,000 gallons per minute, recycling the water inside in just five hours! The pools, or baths as they are known, are entered by into by swimmers via diving platforms, slides, trampolines, flying rings, toboggans, and swings. Ten thousand people at a time can be accommodated at the Sutro Baths, which rents out woolen bathing suits as well as towels to all visitors. Facilities include six saltwater pools and one freshwater pool with a total water-holding capacity of two million gallons. Sutro's also houses a 2,700-seat amphitheater, meeting rooms with a capacity for 1,100 people, and 517 private dressing rooms. The baths are served by two rail lines built especially for Sutros: the [[Cliff House Steam Railroad\|“Ferry And Cliff-House Railroad”]], which runs along the western end of San Francisco, and the “Land’s End Railroad,” originating from downtown. Eventually, the baths are closed down and are covered over by an Olympic-sized skating rink. It and the exhibits above remain until Sutro’s burns down in 1966, almost 100 years after it originally opened. ''

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Lisaruth at 00:03, 11 January 2023

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	[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg\|240px\|left\|https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=]]		[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg\|240px\|left\|link=https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=]]

	''Originally published in'' [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.''		''Originally published in'' [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.''

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Lisaruth at 00:02, 11 January 2023

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	[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg\|240px\|left]]		[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg\|240px\|left\|https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=]]

	''Originally published in'' [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.''		''Originally published in'' [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.''

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	Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.		''Originally published in'' [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.''

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	'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there . . .</font></font> </font>'''		'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there . . .</font></font> </font>'''

	''© by Nanette Jordan''		''© by Nanette Jordan, 2020, from [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir'']''.

	''The memories in this story are in an adult’s “voice” looking back at a child’s experience... The adult doing the remembering is me... The child was also me…''		''The memories in this story are in an adult’s “voice” looking back at a child’s experience... The adult doing the remembering is me... The child was also me…''
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	"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''		Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''],''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission.

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Ccarlsson at 05:34, 10 January 2023

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	[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg\|240px\|left]]		[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg\|240px\|left]]

	"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Paintings ~~on Painting~~: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''		"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''

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Ccarlsson at 05:33, 10 January 2023

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	''The memories in this story are in an adult’s “voice” looking back at a child’s experience... The adult doing the remembering is me... The child was also me…''		''The memories in this story are in an adult’s “voice” looking back at a child’s experience... The adult doing the remembering is me... The child was also me…''

	~~"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Paintings on Painting: A Gilded Memoir''], 2022''~~

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	Excerpted ~~from~~ Nanette Jordan's ~~memoir with her~~ permission.		"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Paintings on Painting: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''

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Ccarlsson at 05:31, 10 January 2023

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	''Photo: Jesse Brown Cook collection, [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf129005j4;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items online archive of California] Weidner, photo. I0049475A''		''Photo: Jesse Brown Cook collection, [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf129005j4;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items online archive of California] Weidner, photo. I0049475A''

	[[Image:Sutro ~~baths 5 1~~ 1896.jpg]]		[[Image:Sutro Baths circa 1896 opensfhistory wnp13.291.jpg]]

	'''Sutro Baths, 1896.'''		'''Crowds at the entry to Sutro Baths, 1896.'''

	''Photo: ~~Private Collection, San Francisco, CA~~''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp13.291''

	[[Image:Sutro-ruins-2013 1829.jpg]]		[[Image:Sutro-ruins-2013 1829.jpg]]

	'''Sutro Ruins'''		'''Sutro Ruins, 2013'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	Excerpted from Nanette Jordan's memoir with her permission.		Excerpted from Nanette Jordan's memoir with her permission.

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Ccarlsson at 05:29, 10 January 2023

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	'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there . . .</font></font> </font>'''		'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>I was there . . .</font></font> </font>'''


	''© by Nanette Jordan''		''© by Nanette Jordan''
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	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp010.10136''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp010.10136''

	~~[[Image:Sutro Baths AAC-0236.jpg\|720px\|thumb]]~~

	~~'''Sutro Baths, 1940s.'''~~

	~~''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''~~

	:''San Francisco’s historic Sutro Baths and accompanying museum of curiosities, open to the public in 1869, hang from a cliffside like a glass-paned floating castle. The forward-thinking entrepreneur and former mayor of the city, [[Mayor Adolph Sutro\|Adolph Sutro]], is the visionary and financier behind the project, developed to provide recreation for San Franciscans and for tourists visiting the city. The many enormous indoor swimming pools are built at sea level, and are fed by the ocean. Sutros boasts the world's largest indoor swimming pool. Numerous exhibits on the floors above the pools house curious antiquities from the travels of the eccentric Mr. Sutro. Relics displayed include extensive collections of historic artifacts, a broad assortment of taxidermy specimens, and a large number of oddities. Materials used in building Sutro’s include 600 tons of iron, 100,000 square feet of glass, 10,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 3,500,000 feet of lumber. During high tides, ocean water flows directly into the indoor pools, recycling two million gallons of freezing seawater an hour. During low tides, a huge turbine water-pump built inside a natural cave at sea level fills tanks at a rate of 6,000 gallons per minute, recycling the water inside in just five hours! The pools, or baths as they are known, are entered by into by swimmers via diving platforms, slides, trampolines, flying rings, toboggans, and swings. Ten thousand people at a time can be accommodated at the Sutro Baths, which rents out woolen bathing suits as well as towels to all visitors. Facilities include six saltwater pools and one freshwater pool with a total water-holding capacity of two million gallons. Sutro's also houses a 2,700-seat amphitheater, meeting rooms with a capacity for 1,100 people, and 517 private dressing rooms. The baths are served by two rail lines built especially for Sutros: the [[Cliff House Steam Railroad\|“Ferry And Cliff-House Railroad”]], which runs along the western end of San Francisco, and the “Land’s End Railroad,” originating from downtown. Eventually, the baths are closed down and are covered over by an Olympic-sized skating rink. It and the exhibits above remain until Sutro’s burns down in 1966, almost 100 years after it originally opened. ''		:''San Francisco’s historic Sutro Baths and accompanying museum of curiosities, open to the public in 1869, hang from a cliffside like a glass-paned floating castle. The forward-thinking entrepreneur and former mayor of the city, [[Mayor Adolph Sutro\|Adolph Sutro]], is the visionary and financier behind the project, developed to provide recreation for San Franciscans and for tourists visiting the city. The many enormous indoor swimming pools are built at sea level, and are fed by the ocean. Sutros boasts the world's largest indoor swimming pool. Numerous exhibits on the floors above the pools house curious antiquities from the travels of the eccentric Mr. Sutro. Relics displayed include extensive collections of historic artifacts, a broad assortment of taxidermy specimens, and a large number of oddities. Materials used in building Sutro’s include 600 tons of iron, 100,000 square feet of glass, 10,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 3,500,000 feet of lumber. During high tides, ocean water flows directly into the indoor pools, recycling two million gallons of freezing seawater an hour. During low tides, a huge turbine water-pump built inside a natural cave at sea level fills tanks at a rate of 6,000 gallons per minute, recycling the water inside in just five hours! The pools, or baths as they are known, are entered by into by swimmers via diving platforms, slides, trampolines, flying rings, toboggans, and swings. Ten thousand people at a time can be accommodated at the Sutro Baths, which rents out woolen bathing suits as well as towels to all visitors. Facilities include six saltwater pools and one freshwater pool with a total water-holding capacity of two million gallons. Sutro's also houses a 2,700-seat amphitheater, meeting rooms with a capacity for 1,100 people, and 517 private dressing rooms. The baths are served by two rail lines built especially for Sutros: the [[Cliff House Steam Railroad\|“Ferry And Cliff-House Railroad”]], which runs along the western end of San Francisco, and the “Land’s End Railroad,” originating from downtown. Eventually, the baths are closed down and are covered over by an Olympic-sized skating rink. It and the exhibits above remain until Sutro’s burns down in 1966, almost 100 years after it originally opened. ''