Broadside, 5-1/2" x 10-3/4." Printed on thin, pale green paper in a variety of type sizes and styles. Uniform light toning. Very Good. Thursday, June 17, falls on a Thursday in the year 1897. Sutro, a mining engineer, became fabulously wealthy by accomplishing the difficult task of building a tunnel though the Nevada mountains. He moved to San Francisco, ran for Mayor in 1894 on the Populist Ticket, and served as such from 1895-1897, the second Jew to hold that office. "Sutro, the self-made millionaire who designed Sutro Heights and later the second Cliff House, developed the amazing Sutro Baths in 1894. With his special interest in natural history and marine studies, he constructed an ocean pool aquarium among the rocks north of the Cliff House. Sutro then expanded his ocean front complex by constructing a massive public bathhouse that covered three acres and boasted impressive engineering and artistic details. Sutro's dream for the Baths was to provide a healthy, recreational and inexpensive swimming facility for thousands of San Franciscans. A classic Greek portal opened to a massive glass enclosure containing seven swimming pools at various temperatures. There were slides, trapezes, springboards and a high dive. The power of the Pacific Ocean during high tide could fill the 1.7 million gallons of water required for all the pools in just one hour. The Baths could accommodate 10,000 people at one time and offered 20,000 bathing suits and 40,000 towels for rent." [National Park Service online report on the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and "The Ambitious & Magnificent Sutro Baths."] OCLC 1289939312 [2- Yale, SMU] as of July 2024.

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MAMMOTH OPENING OF THE SWIMMING SEASON AT SUTRO BATHS SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1897 OPEN FROM 7 A. M. UNTIL 11 P. M. (AND EVERY DAY THEREAFTER) GRAND CONCERT BY SUTRO BATHS BAND. CHANCE TO WIN VALUABLE PRIZES. CHARLES CAVILL CHAMPION SWIMMER OF THE WORLD, WILL SWIM AROUND SEAL ROCKS AND ALSO PERFORM HIS WONDERFUL MONTE CHRISTO ACT IN SUTRO BATHS. IMMENSE PROGRAM. ADMISSION: ADULTS 10 CENTS. CHILDREN 5C

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Louis Roesch, Printers, San Francisco

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1897

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