Our first Hidden History spotlights a place well-known to older San Francisco residents, but perhaps unknown to the younger or newer members of the City - Fleishhacker Pool. Originally located where ...

The last trace of the gargantuan Fleishhacker Pool, an audacious venture designed for tough 20th century San Franciscans who didn't let icy wind and fog deter a plunge into the briny depths, will soon ...

Fleishhacker Pool opened with a splash in April 1925, when most of the Sunset district was still wind-swept dunes and the future site of the San Francisco Zoo was owned by the Spring Valley Water Co.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - A two-alarm fire caused an estimated $1 million in damage to a vacant building near the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday, a fire department spokeswoman said Monday. The blaze was ...

A fire on Saturday ravaged the former bathhouse at the long-paved-over Fleishhacker Pool, the last remnant of an Ocean Beach icon that was once the nation's largest swimming pool. The building sat on ...

The site of the fire-damaged Fleishhacker Pool building at the San Francisco Zoo will most likely become open space, with pieces of the building possibly put on display to commemorate the site’s ...

Over the weekend firefighters battled a raging blaze at the the Historic Fleishhacker Pool House near the San Francisco Zoo. The two alarm-fire started Saturday at about 1 p.m., causing the historic ...

When San Francisco was developing in the mid-1800s, it was all work and no play for the inhabitants of the small pueblo. The excitement of gold fever attracted mainly men who could live a robust, ...