The Sutro Baths, opened in 1896, were an enormous covered swimming pool complex in western San Francisco. It had seven pools filled with water from the ocean with six of them kept at temperatures ranging from hot to cold. Over the course of its operation until it closed in 1966 it also featured a concert hall, ice skating rink and a huge collection of owner Adolph Sutro's stuffed animals and other oddities. The structure burned down in 1966 leaving behind the ruins which are now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The photo on the cover of the Frank Black and the Catholics album Dog in the Sand was shot here. It's a perfectly boring album cover, but I was just glad it didn't make my eyes bleed like all of the other Frank Black and the Catholics album artwork.

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SoCal ska punk band Sublime was on a five-day tour in Northern California when guitarist / lead singer Bradley Nowell od'd on heroin and died here at the Oceanview Motel in San Francisco on May 25, 1996. He was 28 years old. Their hit major label debut album Sublime (renamed from Killin' It after his death) was released posthumously. Nowell had been battling heroin addiction for many years. He was survived by Eric Wilson (bass) Bud Gaugh (drums) and Lou Dog.

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"This one goes out to my man the groove merchant
Coming through with beats, for which I been searchin'"
–Professor Booty

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This former naval base has been the filming location for many different films and tv shows.

The Treasure Island Naval Base served as the Zeppelin Airport in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The Robin Williams' films Flubber, What Dreams May Come, Patch Adams and Bicentennial Man were all filmed on this island. The "bullet-time" sequences for The Matrix were filmed in the former air hangers here.

And for three seasons, the Comedy Central show Battlebots was filmed here. This show will undoubtedly be projected on enormous screens in the future, as our robot overlords force humans to fight each other to the death for their amusement.

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Home to Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic. Over the years, ILM has CGI'd such classics as The Phantom Menace, Speed Racer and The Last Airbender. Also, there is statue of Yoda on a fountain.

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