The Blue Baths is in Rotorua and was opened in 1933 with the aim for the building to promote the town for it's geothermal qualities. When the town was founded in the 1880s the goal became to show people how tourism could grow. The building above shows it's affinity with the art deco era with it's curves and rounded windows.
The pools inside offered mixed men and women bathing together facilities which would've been scandalous back then. When we were there a few years ago it was closed sadly as I would've liked to have taken photos of the interior. The water in the pools is apparently taken directly from the geothermal piping in Rotorua so I could imagine it being quite hot.
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| Tea rooms above the blue baths February 1965, G. Riethmaier, National Publicity Studios |
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| Photo from 1936, Auckland Weekly News, Kura Heritage Collections Online. Linking up with Through my lens, Tuesday Treasures, My corner of the world, All Seasons and Wordless Wednesday. |
10 comments:
It's beautiful!
Looks like a good place to visit
I like the tea room and the art deco exterior. And isn't the bathing garb for women a step back in time!
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This brings back memories. We went swimming there quite a few times. There were aleays lots of kids ... and us. A fun outing
...a classy building from the past.
To scandals, I'd say! I went to school in a town called Bad (Bath) Harzburg, for the same reasons. They were to get rid of the "Bad" when the wall fell as the East-German cars (Trabis) came in masses and polluted the city!
Lovely building - I guess an indoor geothermal pool is used in #Allseasons?
Very interesting bulding.
Very interesting bulding
how trends (and bathing attire) have changed
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