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Posted: 9/24/2005 11:04:17 PM EDT
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OK. This gets my vote for the least expected topic of the week.
Thanks for the memories. I don't, of course, remember the baths, but I do remember clamoring around where they were. I remember the junk in the Cliff House, the FunHouse at FunLand, The Big Camera, and the seals on the rocks. The Cliff House has been remodeled (again). |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 1:28:36 AM EDT
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Back in the day I used to take my girlfriend down to the Sutro Baths ruins, drink beer and play grabass.
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Posted: 9/25/2005 3:00:15 AM EDT
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I got scared when I saw the words "bath house" and "SF" in the same sentence.
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Posted: 9/25/2005 3:45:18 AM EDT
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+1 
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Posted: 9/25/2005 3:52:29 AM EDT
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+2 |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 4:12:43 AM EDT
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Anyone but me notice that in the top photo the crowd all seems to be in pretty good shape?
Not exactly the typical "Weight Class" you'd see today in a stroll through the mall, eh? |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 4:16:00 AM EDT
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Film
Bath house San Fran CAn't be good |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 4:20:08 AM EDT
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Things really did used to be different.
I grew up in central Mass, which had a large Finnish population. They had public saunas around the city in the 20's and 30's that involved lots of naked guys sitting around together, but no gayness. Most of the immigrants had apartments and couldn't have a sauna, so some Finns made a decent business of building public saunas. |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 5:59:27 AM EDT
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Papertargets
I remember all that too - and the baths. My mother was a native. My grandfather (WWI and WWII veteran) was City Desk Editor of the Examiner in the late 40s through the 50s (before WWII he was on the Alameda paper, and then the Examiner's police reporter - carried his WWI service 1911 in his pocket and no SFPD cop ever hasseled him becuase he was 'a good guy'). That was when "Bagdhad by the Bay" was a solidly Republican city (as was California a solidly Republican state). Heck, Herb Caen announced my North Carolina birth is his column. We were stationed at the Presido 1960-61 (until Dad went to Vietnam). and visted often I may have been a little kid, but that was a marvelous city (I went to Sutro Elementary and had birthdays at FunLand). Mom, Grandfather and "Maw Maw" are buried at the National Cemetary at the (ex) Presido. How its changed. What an arguement for the neutron bomb. |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 6:04:15 AM EDT
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Hey, that's pretty neat.
Good post. |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 6:13:07 AM EDT
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X2,Funland was pretty cool as well.Man,I miss riding down HWY 1 on my Gixxer  One time I was walking my dog and I went around the first pillar of the GG bridge and started walking down the beach,it was really succluded because it was really hard to get there.After about 15 minutes of walking I noticed a bunch of people playing volleyball in the distance.As I got closer I noticed they were all men,nekkid tanning thier ballsacks.I was really scared and did a 180 as fast as I could.Still mentally scarred from that incident. |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 6:34:37 AM EDT
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SF is a fry cry from what it was. It was once a neat city. Now it's the sewer of the state.
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Posted: 9/25/2005 6:36:45 AM EDT
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I'm sure back then Sf wasn't known for its ass fuckers. |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 6:46:59 AM EDT
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+3 |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 7:00:41 AM EDT
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It's been decades since you could talk about a bathouse in SF with anonymous butt piracy being a principal attraction of the baths. . . . |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 7:02:44 AM EDT
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Cool. Those were the days.
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Posted: 9/25/2005 7:03:50 AM EDT
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thanks for sharing.... I knew about the cliff house but not about the baths
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Posted: 9/25/2005 7:04:45 AM EDT
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I hope you were not refering to the post above yours. 
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Posted: 9/25/2005 7:18:58 AM EDT
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Thanks for sharing that, I like old stuff like that... Less the butt pirates.
Danny
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Posted: 9/25/2005 11:47:29 AM EDT
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You sure do have a pretty mouth 
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Posted: 9/25/2005 11:49:58 AM EDT
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+1 |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 12:29:01 PM EDT
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Baker Beach? They're not all homos. Quite a fews strippers and sex industry workers tan down there as well. 
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Posted: 9/25/2005 12:33:37 PM EDT
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 See that cave down there by the cliff on the right? On the other side is a little flat area near a tide pool. It's fenced off, but you can squeeze through. Many a fond memory with the ex-GF down in that cave back in the 80's.
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Posted: 9/25/2005 1:06:14 PM EDT
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My grandmother was there for the 06 quake, lived out in Golden Gate Park for 6 months. I can remember the Cliff House and swimming pools. The thing I most remember was the toothpick sculptures.
San Francisco has always been pretty free spirited, not the same way as today, but it's always had a wild side. And more or less just around the corner is the USS San Francisco Memorial. That's worth a visit, too. Jeez the size of the splinter and fragment holes in the flying bridge. |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 1:10:41 PM EDT
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ok ok who's got the damn
Time-Machine? |
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Posted: 9/25/2005 1:27:27 PM EDT
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