Talk:Sutro Baths

message: The article says the baths opened in 1896, but the accompanying drawing is captioned as being "circa 1894". Which is correct? — Gwalla | Talk 02:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Gwalla, I changed the date to 1894 since the sources listed all cite 1894 as the dedication date. Breadyornot (talk) 16:05, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

message: I would like to see more photos that show the original Sutro Baths in this article rather than the ruins. Really, only one good picture of the ruins is necessary, whereas there are many photos in the public domain that show the fully functioning baths. I will try to find some to add (time allowing), but I wanted to put this here to encourage others to do the same. vernajast|angstwhore 17:10, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photographs, Blueprints, Drawings 

message: Just north of the (former) building is a small round pool so close to sea level that the waves wash over it during very high tides. This round pool has a cliff just north of it that faces due west. The cliff has a 6x3 foot hole carved in it about 4-6 feet north and several feet down from the edge of the pool.It can be reached, or could when the outdoor pool was accessible to the public(access to this pool itself was blocked off in the late 20th century with masonary and steel bars), by swinging over on a rope. This opening has been bricked over and braced with iron bars. The condition of this iron and brickwork in the early 80's indicates that it was some decades old even then(most likely pre-WWII). I'm mentioning this here because I've always been curious as to just what it was. It doesn't seem to relate to drainage or the workings of the baths, and considerable effort seems to have been expended blocking it up. A very old San Franciscan I once discussed this with thought it might be part of a series of tunnels for artillery sighting related to the presidio coastal defenses. If anyone knows anything about this particular tunnel, please post it. This may or may not be a notable feature of the Baths. Kinda depends on what the hell it is. Ezra c v mildew desire Jr (talk) 17:47, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be interesting to see where it is on a picture, with so many pictures here. --128.72.49.188 (talk) 21:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

text: It might be related to the water intake system for the Sutro Baths.  There once was a large water pump located deep within the tunnels just north of the baths. Rabit (talk) 05:39, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: The Strange Door

message: If I put this in probably someone will immediately take it out, but sometime in the 1970s until about 1982 (the AIDS crisis) there was an on-premises, heterosexual, well-known (in those circles) sex club in San Francisco that used the name Sutro Baths. It was a heterosexual version of a gay bathhouse. deisenbe (talk) 06:04, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, I had to look this up myself and indeed, here's an ad for it. San Francisco has a fascinating history indeed. Rabit (talk) 05:44, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fascinating, but not relevant to our article.  Where was it, BTW? (Neighborhood, I mean, I don't need an address - can't read the fine print in the ad). Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:09, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sex club called Sutro Baths 

message: To get to the Cliff House from the Baths, you would start at the road which is in front of the lefthand side of the square tower at the left of the photo, then head a little bit more to the ocean, then follow the curving road around to the left and also downhill.  The Cliff House was (and still is) farther out into the ocean than the Baths, because the Baths were in a small bay.  The Cliff House would be out of the frame to the left, and lower down.
On the Google map, the square tower was between "Louis'" (restaurant) and the curve in the road just before the Cliff House.
The photo is taken either from what is now the parking lot of Lands End Lookout, or from the green path which heads north from Louis', along a cliff.  I don't know what was there when the photo was taken.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cliff+House/@37.778507,-122.5161695,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808587b59d73dbed:0x5ef0b938c3c457f3!8m2!3d37.778507!4d-122.5139808
Source: Personal knowledge.  But there are many photos which verify this, including some which show the Cliff House, on this site:
http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/environs/sutrobaths/sutro_baths.htm
Dudley Brooks (talk) 01:56, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: * Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:24, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Baths "as seen from the Cliff House" -- NOT 

message: Actually, only the southernmost part of the pools was converted to an ice skating rink.  There was a wall between the north side of the rink and the remaining, increasingly dilapidated, pools.
Source: "Click above for a photographic tour of Sutro Baths", near the bottom of this page:
http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/environs/sutrobaths/sutro_baths.htm
Dudley Brooks (talk) 02:30, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: * Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:21, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[T]he baths were converted into an ice skating rink" - clarification 

message: MOS:CIRCA - To indicate "around", "approximately", or "about", the use of the  template is preferred over , , , , , , , or  -MJ (talk) 07:36, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circa template 

message: “ Shortly afterwards, the developers left San Francisco and claimed insurance money”. 
Ok, did they get it? What did the insurance company think, and why did the developers leave town? More info needed. 2A00:23C7:E287:1901:E5C3:F56D:8023:3123 (talk) 17:04, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Suspicious Fire