From eBay seller (12/7/2025):  "The only thing I know about the 1957 SF slides is that they were taken by a person with deep ties to rural Pennsylvania, as most of the slides in their collection were taken in small town and farms in PA. They did take a whirlwind trip out west in 1957, during which the SF slides were taken. That appears to be the only time (based on their slides) that they visited SF."

Sutro Baths
John Martini (12/13/2025): View west from the promenade towards the Marine Deck and its ship models in glass cases. Check out the colored panes of glass overhead. There are also what appears to be “hanging mobile” wooden birds dangling from the rafters.

Cliff House & Sutro Baths
John Martini (12/13/2025): Sky Tram passing the ocean side of Sutro’s. The large building at center was the “World’s Largest Gift Shop.” Just to its right is a corner of the Cliff House with the California Missions exhibit entrance and the fiberglass sea lion.

Camera Obscura
John Martini (12/13/2025): “Camera Obscura” is the Giant Camera in its original configuration, before the Whitneys remodeled it with a “Brownie Camera” exterior. I have no idea what the three horizontal tubes were. Faux gun turret barrels? At left distance is the Lurline Pier either collapsing into the ocean or with an intentional ramp at the end.

"SEE 'EM NOW!"
Ice Skate Rink, Sutro Baths

John Martini (12/13/2025): “See ‘em Now” was a sort of fisheye lens mounted on the promenade railing looking down onto the skating rink. View is to the north. The wall in the distance with translucent panels separated the ice rink from the unused pools. There must have been a couple of these lenses. Here’s a still from “The Lineup” made the same year showing another facing west and labeled “Talking Birds Marine Deck.” (Or perhaps the same lens moved and relabeled?)