20 Piney Paradise Dr. Platt filed the padlock. Mrs. McDougall nailed the gate shut. Dr. Platt, wielding an ax, chopped down the gate. Mrs. McDougall responded by slapping a summons on her which claimed that "Dr. Platt kept the entrance free by using axes, saws, sledge hammers, and files." The gate was kept open and in 1931 Citizen Platt became Mayor Platt. She was the first lady mayor of Pacific Grove. SATURDAY NIGHT BATHS! Both as to quantity and quality, bathing water in the very early days was a vexing problem. The ocean was a good tub but older people would not "indulge in its blue but icy bath." Consequently, the Saturday night bath was a real concern to early residents of Pacific Grove, most of whom depended on the public bathhouse. One had to get special permission to bathe on the Sabbath. Only a few were permitted to do so, and they were recognized as people of "stability" who would clean the tubs and towels immediately after their baths and use the lukewarm water in the tanks which remained from Saturday night. No heating water on the Sabbath ! A bathhouse owner's request to allow "convenient" bathing time was found in an old Retreat Minute Book: A number of clerks and working men have approached me at various times with the request that they be permitted to make use of the tub baths on Sunday morning between certain stated hours. say eight and ten A.M. These persons claim that they have no opportunity to bathe during the week, the bathhouse closing at six P.M. through lack of lighting facilities for night work. The clerks especially complain that they work until nine P. M. every week day through the summer season. Water for Sunday morning baths would be heated Saturday night so that there would be no necessity for firing up on Sunday, and the only labor involved would be the furnishing of clean towels to bathers. I respectfully beg your opinion in this matter and ask if there would be any objection to allowing such persons to bathe under reasonable regulation. The request was granted! But only, of course, "providing that it does not conflict with any municipal ordinance ofthe City ofPacific Grove." Soon after came the zinc bath tubs. Some were built under kitchen floors and kept covered with planks when not in use. Then came a new public bathhouse, costing approximately $65,000 and built in a style known as contemporary. Its sundeck restaurant was daily packed with swimmers, many of whom ran up the stairs from the heated out-of-doors municipal swimming pool or from the ocean to get a snack. , OCR Text: 20 Piney Paradise Dr. Platt filed the padlock. Mrs. McDougall nailed the gate shut. Dr. Platt, wielding an ax, chopped down the gate. Mrs. McDougall responded by slapping a summons on her which claimed that "Dr. Platt kept the entrance free by using axes, saws, sledge hammers, and files." The gate was kept open and in 1931 Citizen Platt became Mayor Platt. She was the first lady mayor of Pacific Grove. SATURDAY NIGHT BATHS! Both as to quantity and quality, bathing water in the very early days was a vexing problem. The ocean was a good tub but older people would not "indulge in its blue but icy bath." Consequently, the Saturday night bath was a real concern to early residents of Pacific Grove, most of whom depended on the public bathhouse. One had to get special permission to bathe on the Sabbath. Only a few were permitted to do so, and they were recognized as people of "stability" who would clean the tubs and towels immediately after their baths and use the lukewarm water in the tanks which remained from Saturday night. No heating water on the Sabbath ! A bathhouse owner's request to allow "convenient" bathing time was found in an old Retreat Minute Book: A number of clerks and working men have approached me at various times with the request that they be permitted to make use of the tub baths on Sunday morning between certain stated hours. say eight and ten A.M. These persons claim that they have no opportunity to bathe during the week, the bathhouse closing at six P.M. through lack of lighting facilities for night work. The clerks especially complain that they work until nine P. M. every week day through the summer season. Water for Sunday morning baths would be heated Saturday night so that there would be no necessity for firing up on Sunday, and the only labor involved would be the furnishing of clean towels to bathers. I respectfully beg your opinion in this matter and ask if there would be any objection to allowing such persons to bathe under reasonable regulation. The request was granted! But only, of course, "providing that it does not conflict with any municipal ordinance ofthe City ofPacific Grove." Soon after came the zinc bath tubs. Some were built under kitchen floors and kept covered with planks when not in use. Then came a new public bathhouse, costing approximately $65,000 and built in a style known as contemporary. Its sundeck restaurant was daily packed with swimmers, many of whom ran up the stairs from the heated out-of-doors municipal swimming pool or from the ocean to get a snack. , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,E through F File names,L through M File Names,Mattie, Mrs,MATTIE MRS J. E. DOUGALL_014.pdf,MATTIE MRS J. E. DOUGALL_014.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: MATTIE MRS J. E. DOUGALL_014.PDF, MATTIE MRS J. E. DOUGALL_014.pdf 1 Page 1