Lost: Public Pools, San Francisco, CA.

Sutro Baths, San Francisco.  Photo found at the Cliff House Project  

Peter Hartlaub, public culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, just published a photographic slide show and commentary about San Francisco's historic and mostly lost public pools.  Unlike pools in planned suburban communities, urban public pools are constantly competing with redevelopment in high density places.  Older pools are also vulnerable due to outdated technologies in plumbing, but their renovation or repurposing is plausible with public support.