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 built in 1925 and was 1000 feet long, 150 feet wide and held six million gallons of water which ere pumped in from the ocean. By the 1970's it had fallen into disrepair and couldn't meet modern health requirements.
This version of the Cliff House only lasted from 1896 to 1907. It survived the 1906 earthquake but caught fire the next year and was destroyed.
The Golden Gate Bridge is infrequently this traffic free, This was probably a Sunday morning in the early 1950s.
This is the Marin Civic Center. It was Frank Lloyd Wright's last commission and was built in 1957.
That wraps up the images for this issue. If you have any comments Please send them to
THE ACCUMULATOR
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BELLINGHAM WA
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