THE ACCUMULATOR Volume One Number Five It has been awhile since the last issue and that is just the way it goes. This latest issue features postcards from San Francisco. The paper version has B&W images and this blog exists solely to share the color versions. This is an advertisement for Sing Fat's new location which they moved to in June of 1912. The building was built a few years earlier right after-the 1906 earthquake. It is still there but isn't quite as elaborately decorated This is the Nam Kue Chinese School on Sacramento Street. It too is still standing. This is a view of Sutro Baths and the Cliff House. The baths were built in the 1890s but had fallen into disuse by the Great Depression. The baths held 1.7 million gallons of water and could hold 10,000 people This is a close-up of the baths and the Cliff House from the same postcard. This is the Fleishhacker Pool. It was the largest swimming pool in the United States. It was bui...