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  Lurline Baths -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Lurline Baths were public (additional info and facts about salt water) salt water (You soak your body in a bathtub) baths built in the (additional info and facts about 1800s) 1800s in (additional info and facts about San Francisco, California) San Francisco, California located at the corner of Bush and Larkin streets.
Owned by the Olympic Salt Water Company, the baths also included a (Pool that provides a facility for swimming) swimming pool and (additional info and facts about water slide) water slide.
The baths were imortalized by (United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)) Thomas Edison on October 25, 1897 when he captured 30 seconds of film featuring scenes from the Lurline pool.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lu/lurline_baths.htm   (151 words)

  
 Sutro Baths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1896, the Sutro Baths was opened to the public as the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment.
Both the Cliff House and the former Baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and operated by the United States National Park Service.
The Sutro Bath ruins are open to the public, but a warning sign advises strict caution, as visitors have been swept off by large waves and drowned at the site.
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 Lurline S.s. Lurline (iii) 1932: Maritime Matters Lurline, Ellinis. Lurline (iii), Matson Line, Postwar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jpg Lurline Baths seen in a 1897 Thomas Edison film The Lurline Baths were public salt water baths.
Lurline is from the island of Kauai where she was born transferred to his youngest daughter Lurline, whom he has nurtured and kept.
Lurline (Loreley) Lurline (Loreley) Seeling, Hans Seeling, Hans Hans Seeling.
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 Lurline Pier
The Lurline Pier was located on Ocean Beach between Balboa and Anza streets.
It was sometimes called the "Olympic Club Pier" because an intake pipe for pumping saltwater to the old Lurline Baths and Olympic Club pools downtown, hence the two names.
Lurline Pier protected the intake pipe for the downtown Lurline Baths (Larkin and Bush streets, 1894-1936)
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 Sutro Baths -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1896, the (additional info and facts about Sutro Baths) Sutro Baths was opened to the public as the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment.
During low tides, a powerful turbine water pump, built inside a cave at sea level, could be switched on from a control room and could fill the tanks at a rate of 6,000 US gallons a minute (380 L/s), recycling all the water in five hours.
Inside one of the cement pits, however, someone took the time to scribble out about a paragraph apparently describing what Adolph Sutro had hoped to achieve in building the baths, but much of the writing has been covered by more recent graffiti.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sutro_baths.htm   (469 words)

  
 Library of Congress
To the north of the Cliff House (not seen in the film) are ruins of Sutro Baths (1896-1952, burned 1966) once a popular swimming resort.
The following is a scene-by-scene description of the film, concentrating on background buildings: [37100] At left is the Lurline Pier (1894-1967) which protected the intake pipe for the downtown Lurline Baths (Larkin and Bush streets, 1894-1936).
In the background at right is the first Beach Chalet (1900, moved in 1925), a small resort opposite the west end of Golden Gate Park (hidden behind the beach ridge and not yet grown tall).
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Lovaina was only one fourth Tahitian, all the remainder of her racial inheritance being American; but she was all Tahitian in her traits, her simplicity, her devotion to her friends, her catching folly as it flew, and her pride in a new possession.
It was the sleeping and amusement quarters of five dogs, the loafing place for the girls, the office of the hotel, the entry for guests to the dining-room or to the other conveniences.
To this breakfast male guests dropped in from the bath in pajamas, but the déjeuner à la fourchette, or second breakfast at eleven, was more formal, and of four courses, fish, bacon and eggs, curry and rice, tongues and sounds, beefsteak and potatoes, feis, roast beef or mutton, sucking pig, and cabbage or sauer-kraut.
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Oldest frame residence in Colusa is incorporated into this house-with a two-story gable-roof structure and a one-story gable-roof wing in the rear.
This three bedroom, two bath manufactured home sits on.375 acres of peace and quiet in College City.
All this and three bedrooms, two baths, and large backyard with gazebo.
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 The Thomas Edison Film Library V5 - 36 Films at USHistoricalArchive.com
Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is composed largely of bathers.
African mother in the act of giving her struggling [child] a bath in a tub of suds.
This is a clear and distinct picture in which the contrast between the complexion of the bather and the white soapsuds is strongly marked.
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 San Francisco History - Timeline
Sutro Baths was developed and built by Adolph Sutro.
James Lick Baths, at 10th and Howard streets, opened.
Lurline Baths, at Bush and Larkin streets, closed (31 Mar).
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 America at Work and Play Early Silent Film Collection at USHistoricalArchive.com
The children are holding hands and wading in the surf.
At the end of the film, there is only one child in a white bathing costume holding a sailboat.
Several persons in bathing suits dive into the water from a springboard, as well as from the balcony above.
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 Seasonal Trips
A scene from Thomas Edison's film "Lurline Baths," from 1897
The earliest swimsuits covered most of the body and were called "bathing costumes." They were often made of wool, which made them scratchy and very heavy when they got wet.
Newer fabrics made it possible to make lighter swimsuits.
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 Mystic Isles of the South Seas
nyked” man upon the wharf, and Sunday, when I went to take my bath before breakfast, I felt the soft fingers of the South caress my body, and looking out upon the purple ocean, whose expanse was barely dimpled by gleams of silver, I saw flying-fish skimming the crests of the swinging waves.
The officers and stewards appeared in white; the passengers, too, put off their temperate-zone clothes, and the decks were gay with color.
Coming and going to baths here, whites throw off easily the fear of being thought immodest, and women and men alike go to and fro in loin-cloths, pajamas, or
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 TheHisoryCD.com - Animation & Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Filmed August 22, 1897, at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, California.
Filmed August 1897, at the Lurline Baths in San Francisco, California.
A happy young couple are seated in a hammock under an old oak tree, ardently making love and evidently totally oblivious to all that is taking place about them.
www.thehistorycd.com /animation/vintage.html   (2081 words)

  
 Waterstone At Chatsworth-9901 Lurline Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 818-882-5259 - Apartment Search Results
Waterstone At Chatsworth-9901 Lurline Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 818-882-5259 - Apartment Search Results
We are on the left side of Lurline.
We make no representation or warranty, expressed or implied on this site, as to the Rental information is subject to change with or without prior notification.
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 Sacramento Real Estate
Clean clean park includes pool, club house and hot tub.
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(double-sided) View of new Cliff House and Baths from Sutro Heights, and Huntington Falls, Golden Gate Park.
Picturesque San Francisco- Baker's Beach and Fort Point.
Picturesque San Francisco - Looking down the Ocean Beach from the Cliff House, showing pier of Lurline Baths.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/photo182.xml   (5119 words)

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