Here it is a few months later, when it was completely destroyed by fire. As Kvatch points out on his comment below, it looks as though the building is about to slide right off the cliff. Amazingly, the building survived the 1906 quake, only to burn and fall into the sea.
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Aside from Playland that way, did you ever walk around and look at the photos of Sutro Baths?
That must've been quite the place in those days!
I knew the WWI was near Mendocino, it's been quite some time since I was there. ; (
The Cliff House, as it looked in 1907...
...just before it plunged off the cliff and into the ocean. ;-) I kid. I KID! But it sort of looks that way, doesn't it?
it was destroyed by fire soon after this photo was taken. there have been several incarnations.
Things come and things go. We to shall pass on.
Amazingly, the building survived the 1906 quake, only to burn and fall into the sea.
Sort of reminds me of the old Monty Python schtick: "The third castle burned, then fell over and sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed OOP!"
Were people using it when the first photo was taken? Don't think I would have felt very safe in it.
I went and read some of the history links you provided..amazing stuff!
I have a VHS copy of Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle visiting the San Francisco World's Fair (shown at the Castro last summer during their silent film festival); that I can still recognize places from it in the modern things that are shot there is always amazing to me. Here we've been lucky to keep a few things from the wrecker's ball, but not many!
alan
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