Based in Northern California, the Putney Financial Group is a Registered Broker-Dealer that provides client-centered wealth management solutions. Active in its community, the Putney Financial Group sponsors high school and college internships and supports organizations such as the San Francisco Historical Society.
While the museum has been closed in early 2020, the San Francisco Historical Society has continued to hold its monthly program online. The April event features John Martini, a local historian, taking viewers on a tour of the city’s “glass palace.”
Envisioned by Adolph Sutro, who had engineered Nevada mining tunnels during the Gold Rush, this amusement park and play-land was situated near Ocean Beach along the Pacific.
Set among rugged cliffs known as Land’s End, it encompassed Sutro Baths swimming pools, museum, ice-skating rink, and aerial gondola. As Martini describes it, this was the “most magnificent example of 19th century Comstock exuberance” along the West Coast. It was also a health spa destination at a time when soaking in saltwater was widely prescribed by physicians.
Becoming a popular tourist destination beloved by generations of San Franciscans as a getaway from the city, the glass structure encompassed seven baths of various temperatures, as well as springboards, slides, and high dive. More than 10,000 people could be accommodated and the destination was well well-trafficked until the Great Depression.
Subsequent owners placed an ice skating rink in the location but this failed financially as well. After burning down in 1966, the remains of Sutro Baths, next to the iconic Cliff House, became a popular destination in their own right, within the scenic Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
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