Image of people in front of the North Beach Bath House dressed in clothes and bathing suits on the beach in Santa Monica, California. A pipe transporting seawater to the warm salt water plunge is seen at left and two water towers and band shell can be seen above the bluffs. No. 343 North Beach Bath House, Santa Monica, Cal. Garden City Foto Co. Los Angeles, Ca"--text, on item. Title transcribed from item. Date supplied by cataloger based on caption with reproduced image in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), p.117. A typed note from Ernest Marquez that accompanies this print reads "In 1896 a contract for $1600 was awarded to Fred Breslein to lay pipe from North Beach Bath House to two large 30,000 gallon tanks constructed on the bluffs at the foot of Broadway that would hold salt water for watering the streets in order to abate the dust. But the salt water made the dust more disagreeable than ever because the salt water only caused the mud to cake and cling more firmly to people's shoes. One tank was moved to Bay street in 1901 and the other burst on a Sunday in November 1903, and was never repaired or replaced.
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