Aquatic Park Cove
Protected swimming cove with a sandy beach and a Streamline Moderne bathhouse shaped like an ocean liner.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Aquatic Park Cove in San Francisco opens in 1976, when someone painted over an entire mural-covered room inside the ship-shaped bathhouse on the beach. That cove has been a stronghold for cold-water swimmers from the Dolphin Club since 1877, and the bathhouse itself went up in 1939, decorated floor to ceiling by WPA artists Hilaire Hiler and Richard Ayer. Stand at the sand's edge and look up at the white building before you walk inside.
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