1902 Land promotional PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS San Luis Obispo County CALIFORNIA

Description: 1902 Land promotional PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS San Luis Obispo County CALIFORNIA DESCRIPTION: 1902 Land promotional Booklet [Pamphlet] Cover title, “PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS”, title-page title, AMONG THE OAKS AT PASO ROBLESHOT SPRINGS; San Luis Obispo County, California; [reprinted in (1902) from Sunset Magazine, September 1902]; stapled, 24-page booklet 17 photographic illustrations; [large format] 7 inches by 10-1/4 inches. [Nice Arts and Crafts Movement style designed cover] CONDITION: Very good [see scans]. SECURITY: ARGUS BOOKS [or other wording] in PINK may have been super-imposed over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual item. HISTORY: PASO ROBLES, officially El Paso de Robles (Spanish for The Pass of Oaks), is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Located on the Salinas River about 30 mi north of San Luis Obispo, the city is known for its hot springs, abundance of wineries, production of olive oil, almond orchards, and playing host to the California Mid-State Fair. HOT SPRINGS: As far back as 1795, Paso Robles has been spoken of and written about as "California's oldest watering place"—the place to go for springs and mud baths. In 1864, a correspondent to the San Francisco Bulletin wrote every prospect existed of the Paso Robles hot springs becoming the watering place of the state. By 1868, people were coming from as far away as Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, and even Alabama. Besides the well-known mud baths, the Iron Spring and the Sand Spring bubbled through the sand and were said to produce delightful sensations. In 1882, Drury James and the Blackburn brothers issued a pamphlet advertising "El Paso de Robles Hot and Cold Sulphur Springs and the Only Natural Mud Baths in the World". By then, the inn had first-class accommodations - a reading room, barber shop, and telegraph office; a general store, a top-of-the-line livery stable, and comfortably furnished cottages for families who preferred privacy to quarters in the hotel. Visitors could stay in touch with the rest of the world, as two daily mail deliveries were available, as was a Western Union telegraph office and a Wells Fargo agency with special rates for guests. As the springs became more a destination of the well-to-do as a place to go to socialize, the original purpose of the springs—to heal—became peripheral. The bathhouse was erected over the sulfur spring in 1888, with a plunge and 37 bath rooms. In the following year, work began on the large Hot Springs Hotel (today the Paso Robles Inn), which was completed in 1900 and burned down 40 years later. Since the privilege of using the baths was restricted to guests of the hotel, and many sufferers of the ailments the baths cured could not pay the rates of the fashionable hotel, a few businessmen in Paso Robles planned with Felix Liss for the right to bore for Sulphur water on a lot that Liss owned. A sulfur well was reached, a bath house was built, and baths were offered at an affordable rate of 25 cents. The establishment was later offered to the city and is currently the site of the Municipal Pool. [Please email with any questions or if you would like an additional photos/scans] SHIPPING: All paper items [labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] and small thin objects that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped inside an eBay stiff hardboard sleeve with 2 additional stiff hardboard cards inside by USPS Ground Advantage [unless other arrangements have been made with seller]. [MI – B2 – S4 (code to locate the item)]

Price: 95 USD

Location: Auburn, California

End Time: 2024-11-22T06:41:38.000Z

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