Sutro Baths

03/04/2017

Lots of newly-discovered and rare photos here.

Water parks used to be a lot different before the days of chlorine pools, lifeguards, and road trips. Take, for example, San Francisco’s Sutro Baths... The Sutro Baths were built in Lands End in 1894…

04/14/2016

In historical bathhouse news...

03/14/2016

Now just a haunting collection of ruins, when the Sutro Baths opened on March 14, 1896, it was Adolph Sutro's grandest achievement.

08/06/2015

Sutro Sam is a trend setter!

Sutro Sam was just a scout.

07/02/2015

This 11-minute reel of film, shot from a cable car on Market Street, captures a vibrant city just days before its destruction

06/01/2015

Now playing at Sutro!
Tickets @ http://www.weplayers.org/ondine-at-sutro

by Charles Kruger & Barry David Horwitz Rating: ***** (For an explanation of TheatreStorm’s rating scale, click here.) Charles Kruger writes: Decades ago I was a student at UC Irvine during the...

05/16/2015

Boating in Sutro Baths!

“Rowboat in the Sutro bath ruins? My idea of heaven. ”

05/01/2015

Video footage! Watch from 0:55 to 1:55.
(Thanks Tod Brilliant for submitting.)

Never before seen footage of the wonderful Sutro Baths. Footage needs some processing, but here it is, fresh from transfer!

04/29/2015

Stunning photo of Sutro Baths at sunset by Masaki Akiyama

I'm a visual design professional in the San Francisco Bay Area. I use photography to express how I can view our world. Explore with me, I'll share with you what I see through my photos.

04/24/2015

Dear Sutro, I am here every day in spirit! Love, Jill

04/29/2014

It's a great day for Sutro Baths fans! The award-winning podcast 99% Invisible just released their Sutro Baths episode. Interviewees include John Martini, author of Sutro’s Glass Palace; Tom Bratton, National Parks Service volunteer and former locker attendant at Sutro’s; and Jill Corral (me!) who runs this and sutrobaths.com.

If you've wandered around Machu Picchu, or Stonehenge, or the Colosseum, or even snuck into that abandoned house on the edge of town, you know the power in a piece of decrepit architecture. And ev...