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In the end, it was a wreck, and it smelled. Too many feet and too much mold. Any right-thinking person with an eye to the future would insist on its demolition and replacement. The Star reported in May of 1950 that this building would soon be replaced by a “trim, modern bathhouse” costing $40,000. (The drawings show a boring flat box.) “A new feature,” says the story, “will be the roof. The days of the peek-a-boo roofless bathhouse dressing rooms are over. No longer must the residents of the Calhoun Beach Club, across the street, turn their heads the other way. ("From upper floors of the club,” the article helpfully explained, “ you could look down into the roofless dressing rooms.)”
Nevertheless, the Calhoun Beach Club went bankrupt. This was a beautiful building in its time, though. Sand-colored stone with reddish Moorish domes, it staked out the north side of the beach as the place to be. When it was demolished, it was replaced with nothing. The north side of the beach continued to be occupied, but by the mid-80s it was predominantly black in population. It was subsequently, and no doubt coincidentally, renovated and relandscaped. There are now parking lots and hills and trees on this spot, and the building no longer obscures the view of the lake. Very few people know this building ever existed; there is no trace of it left whatsoever. Next: postcards and additional photos. |
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