Bathhouse Row - both directions from the visitors' center/museum. Walked the Grand Promenade, a beautiful paved walk on the mountain side above Bath House Row. See pic 1. Then I went through the Park's museum bathhouse, which was great and fascinating. Gym for men's exercising where Babe Ruth and other famous baseball players and boxers worked out was cool. Exercise machines, precursors of today's models, the history of their development, the social & cultural aspects of "bathing" spas, as well as the beauty of the building were really interesting. Rest of pics are of the Assembly Room, which had a Men's Parlor on one end and a Ladies' Parlor on the other. Interesting that nude sunbathing was provided for men, but not for women.
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