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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Magnificent Lobby, Olympic Club Building, San FranciscoPaff &■ Bauer, Architects these being so arranged that as many suites of two rooms or single sleepingapartments may be had as the club members may select. The entire mezzanine and basement floor is devoted to the salt waterswimming pool, 35x100 feet, with lockers and dressing-rooms, fresh andsalt water showers and bath-rooms adjacent, as well as caldariuin andfrigidariums, vast areas being required for all these features in a club ofso large a membership, as that of the Olympic. The main ceiling of the swimming pool is treated after the RomanThermes of Diocletian and Caracalla. What Every Journalist Knows Nice Old Lady: Will you kindly tell me if the lady who writes TheMother Page every week in your paper is in? I want to tell her howmuch I have enjoyed reading her articles on The Evening Hour in theNursery. Office Boy: Thats him over there with the pink shirt, smokin apipe. The Architect and Euiiinccr 37
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Ills «ai. •• •« Mr Bauer, Architects Buildings of the Future THE New York Herald of recent date contains an interesting article on,the possibilities of electrical development and what we may reason-ably expect of chemistry, medicine, flying machines and transporta-tion facilities in the future. Nothing is suggested, however, in regard tothe actual housing of people or industries or the probabilities in that direc-tion. The subject suggests many improvements within reason and as thesky-scrapers and fireproof buildings of today are replacing structures con-sidered adequate, if not perfect, ten years ago, so may the next generationfrown upon the crudeness of our efforts today. Shall we fly from thetwentieth story of one building to the fortieth of another without thebother of going down in one elevator and up another? Will our heating,cooking and lighting all be done by electricity—without the use of wires—perhaps? Is wireless or pipeless plumbing a possibility and to whatext

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