When summer meant the Brighton Beach Baths Imagine an urban beach club spread across 15 acres, with country club amenities like swimming pools, tennis courts, and live music and dancing-all accessible via the D train. That was the Brighton Beach Baths and Racquet Club, known simply as the Baths. In 1907 the Brighton Beach Baths opened on the site of a former amusement park.
The bath's activities included swimming, tennis and entertainment. Yiddish vaudeville theater dominated the stage, and a carousel provided an additional attraction. The baths were demolished to make way for housing in the mid 1990s.
When summer meant the Brighton Beach Baths | Ephemeral New York
That is how it is most days at the Brighton Beach Bath and Racquet Club, a fenced-in 15-acre square of Brooklyn beachfront that is a 10- months-a-year resort for 5,000 people. Beach club. Did you go to BBB? The club in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn closed its doors shortly after the summer of 1997.
This group is for those who went. Title Brighton Beach Bath & Racquet Club Call Number COHEN_0104 Cite As George Cohen photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History Summary Pedestrians walking under or just past canopied entrance to social club; large sign over canopy reads (in part): "Brighton Beach Bath & Racquet Club. World's Largest Beach Resort.
When summer meant the Brighton Beach Baths | Ephemeral New York
15 Acres Of Resort Fun For The Entire Family. Captures the best of what the Brighton Beach Bath and Racquet Club had to offer. Fun day of zany competitive events among four teams of members occurring on.
Pedestrians walking under or just past canopied entrance to social club; large sign over canopy reads (in part): "Brighton Beach Bath & Racquet Club. World's Largest Beach Resort. 15 Acres Of Resort Fun For The Entire Family"; parked cars and apartment building in right background Title supplied by cataloger Date supplied by photographer: July 1987 Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Brighton Beach Bath & Racquet Club
Brighton Beach Baths Acrylic/canvas 30x40" 1994 For 90 years, until it closed in 1997, Brighton Beach Baths, a private Brooklyn swim club in Coney Island, was a maze of pools, a casino, lockers, and lounges- even a miniature golf course- all reserved for its members. At its height in the 1960's, it had 13,000 members. The Brighton Beach Bath and Racquet Club, a landmark and repository of the neighborhood's past, is scheduled to be replaced by a $300 million, 2,200-apartment condominium complex - Brooklyn's.
The Brighton Beach Baths opened in 1907, and by the time I got there in the late 60's to mid-70's the combination beach club community gathering place could boast a membership surpassing 12,000 individuals.
