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The baths struggled for years, mostly due to the very high operating and maintenance costs. Eventually, the southernmost part of the baths was converted into an ice skating rink, with a wall separating it from the dilapidated swimming pools, [5] until 1964 when the property was sold to developers for a planned high-rise apartment complex.
Winterland Ballroom (more commonly known as Winterland Arena or simply Winterland) was an ice skating rink and music venue in San Francisco, California, United States.The arena was located at the corner of Post Street and Steiner Street.
The San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds are a roughly 16,500-acre (6,700 ha) part of the San Francisco Bay that have been used as salt evaporation ponds since the California Gold Rush era. Most of the ponds were once wetlands in the cities of Redwood City , Newark , and Hayward , and other parts of the bay.
Get ready to unleash your inner Kristi Yamaguchi. It’s time to grab your mittens and book it to one of these 10 rinks (plus an ice-free skating option for your littlest ones) for an afternoon or ...
Photographer Barbara Boissevain is documenting the area’s restoration from a center for commercial salt extraction back to its natural marshland state. Photos reveal the dramatic transformation ...
A chemistry professor explains the science that makes salt a cheap and efficient way to lower freezing temperature. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
The baths included six of the large indoor swimming pools, a museum, a skating rink and other pleasure grounds. Great throngs of San Franciscans arrived on steam trains, bicycles, carts and horse wagons on Sunday excursions.
A straight line was then drawn across the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula just north of San Bruno Mountain. Everything south of the line became San Mateo County while everything north of the line became the new consolidated City and County of San Francisco , to date the only consolidated city-county in California.