{"id":527,"date":"2011-06-06T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:58:36","slug":"the-san-diego-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"The San Diego Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time in America when the standard for personal cleanliness was a weekly bath. The &#8220;great unwashed&#8221; often found that Saturday night soak in commercial bathhouses. During San Diego&#8217;s population boom of the eighties, nearly a dozen bathhouses dotted the city&#8217;s waterfront. A decade later the baths had become elaborate plunges and included an architectural wonder: Los Banos at Broadway and Kettner Blvd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/San-Diego-Baths.pdf\">San Diego Baths<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_528\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-528\" data-attachment-id=\"528\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=528\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg?fit=1590%2C1004\" data-orig-size=\"1590,1004\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LosBanos1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Los Banos at Broadway and Kettner Blvc.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg?fit=1024%2C646\" class=\"size-large wp-image-528    \" title=\"LosBanos1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg?resize=516%2C326\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg?resize=1024%2C646 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg?resize=300%2C189 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LosBanos1.jpg?w=1590 1590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Banos at Broadway and Kettner Blvd.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D527&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time in America when the standard for personal cleanliness was a weekly bath. 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