Modern ruins of the great Sutro Baths bathhouse. Opened 1896, at the time the largest in the world.Lo
03/04/2017
Lots of newly-discovered and rare photos here.
Swimming with Ghosts at the Spectacular Sutro Baths 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
120 years ago today, San Francisco's iconic Sutro Baths opened 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!
The Return of the San Francisco River Otter | Hakai Magazine Sutro Sam was just a scout.
07/02/2015
San Francisco on film: Days before the 1906 Quake 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
Review: 'Ondine' presented by We, Players at Sutro Baths & Environs (*****) 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!
Magggi on Instagram: “Rowboat in the Sutro bath ruins? My idea of heaven. #esseffyear2... “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.)
Sutro Baths + San Francisco 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
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.
Episode 112: Young Ruin 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...