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PARKS 



PLATE No. 54 



AN AIRPLANE VIEW OF A PORTION OF THE FLEISHHACKER PLAYFIELD, 

 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 



Distinguishing features of the playfield, which has an area of 60 acres, are as follows: 



Swimming Pool and Bathhouse. The swimming pool is 1,000 feet long by 100 feet wide, with an offset in the 

 center section 150 feet wide by 100 feet in length, which has been so designed as to accommodate 5O-yard straight- 

 away races, water polo, and other swimming events requiring arbitrary spaces. This section has an average depth 

 of six feet. The pool in its entirety has a depth graduated by a uniform slope, with a maximum of nine feet on the 

 north and three feet on the south end. At the north end there is also a diving section 50 feet square and 14 feet 

 deep equipped with diving towers. The capacity of the pool is 8,000,000 gallons of salt water, affording a surface 

 sufficient for 10,000 bathers at the same time, with appliances for filling and refilling rapidly. The retaining walls 

 are of reinforced concrete with the submerged surfaces so treated as to be completely proof against the action of 

 salt water, thereby ensuring its sanitation as well as permanency. The bathhouse on the ocean side of the pool 

 contains 800 dressing rooms, hundreds of steel lockers, fresh water showers and ample rest rooms on the first floor, 

 while on the second floor are an elaborate cafeteria and ice cream saloon with entrances from the Sky Line Boule- 

 vard. Approximately 1,000 full grown trees have been placed to protect the pool on the ocean side. A promenade 

 50 feet wide surrounds the pool which is further beautified by a bisecting strip of lawn, with an Alameda effect of 

 pine trees 25 feet apart to furnish shade and shelter. 



Athletic Field. Closely adjoining the swimming pool is the athletic field, which is provided with five baseball 

 diamonds and ten tennis courts. Children's Playground. In the more secluded section beyond the athletic field 

 is the children's playground, most of which is heavily wooded. This is equipped with the usual playground equip- 

 ment and in addition has a mammoth merry-go-round and a miniature railway. On the edge of this area is located 

 "The Mothers' House." Picnic Grounds. In a still more secluded and shaded section of the playfield are the 

 ample picnic grounds. 



