James, you featured this place on Nourishing Obscurity years ago, probably before Toodles even put her toe in the water at NO. 

It is a salt water pool/bath too. I have been to its location. It was built outside of San Francisco…could be a part of it as far as I know.  It lies on the Pacific Ocean edge. It was quite a place…a spectacle at one time. I would say the complex was designed and built  in the very garish and ostentatious way some Americans with money tend to do. Big beautiful whatevers.

For some reason I am thinking the man who built it was Greek which explains a lot concerning the place …or if not that ….well some sort of Greek connections. Of course I could be wrong as the day is long. 

It ended up becoming many things through the years; the complex. There was more than the large picture you see to the grounds. No longer what it once was.  Still, part of the place is still there.  We walked through areas in which the water still entered from the ocean. 

Cuddles loves that print  and wishes he could be there now!  He goes back into his boyhood and youth imagining swimming, playing, splashing, jumping…carousing as boys do. 

Ever since granddaughter was a baby, she would stand on the bed in front of it asking questions and wanting to go there. She still does that. 

The saltwater pool you featured at UHC, HQ, seems like it had been a nice place to visit. What a shame it no longer is what it had been . Parking lots on the beach is rather a sin in my estimation. Not that anybody asked. 

I have a book we bought about the baths.  There’s another pic here. It is a metal sign, a graphic we bought on our visit to Sutro Baths .  Italian instead? Where is my book?

I am not a big souvenir person (although I do appreciate old Florida ones …they are so fun and tacky) but I thought it would look great in the guest bath between the open shelving and the vanity to the left of the sign (out of shot). 

The room was a different neutral colour but a definite tint. Cuddles painted the bathroom not long ago. Now I need to paint the vanity because it is a creamy white and fades in there. It is really a fun and useful piece, not a sissy vanity. I like sissy but not for that room and this place.