History of Sutro Baths

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The ruins of Sutro Baths, at the far western edge of San Francisco, are mysterious. Clearly something big used to stand here. Today we take you back in time to what visiting this grand swimming facility would have been like. Additional Reading: Inside Sutro Baths, San Francisco's Once Grand Bathing Palace $1.99 e-book deal available at: Amazon. Apple. Barnes & Noble. Google Play. Kobo. Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Katrina Schwartz. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, and Christopher Beale Additional support from Tamuna Chkareuli, Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Joshua Ling, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Wow, okay, so I've been to this place a few times, but never on a day quite like today.
0:10.0	It is a stunner out here.
0:12.0	Beautiful weather, perfect May day.
0:14.0	Hey everyone, Olivia Alan Price here with Katrina Schwartz,
0:18.0	producer Extraordinary of Bay Curious.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:21.0	And we are at Sutra Baths so right at the entrance of Lands End the
0:26.3	hiking trail if you've done that we're looking at Cliff House to our left a long
0:31.1	time running restaurant currently not running but hopefully
0:34.7	we'll come back again soon. But down in this cove is really why we are here. There is something pretty interesting down there.
0:45.0	It looks like a massive pool, except for the edges of it are more like a pond
0:51.0	with moss growing and ducks and seagulls.
0:54.8	People are walking out on that retaining wall,
0:56.8	but it has this air of mystery because you can tell
0:59.3	something was once here, but now nature is reclaiming it.
1:03.0	Today on Bay Curias, we're going on a field trip to a spot many of you have been requesting
1:10.7	over the years. We'll learn why and how sutro baths were built, what
1:15.8	visiting would have felt like back in the day, and while researching this story
1:19.8	we stumbled upon a lesser-known piece of civil rights history,
1:24.1	so we'll be sharing that too.
1:26.2	This story first appeared in the Baid Curious book,
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