Espagne St Sebastien-cabine royale

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   gtbarnes, {zara}, lomokev, madmatt™, and 194 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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   Lilorfnannie (59 months ago | reply)

   That's another one of those little houses that went down to the water's edge, so the ladies could change & enter the water in modesty. Only this one is for Royalty!! I could LIVE in that comfortably, I think-

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   iansand (59 months ago | reply)

   I want one.

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   blacque_jacques (59 months ago | reply)

   It's steampunkerrific!

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   tcmuah (59 months ago | reply)

   That's so amazing... And beautiful!!!

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   Larry D Nelson (59 months ago | reply)

   This is one of the MOST unique pics I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. How unique, how interesting, how beautyful this would have been in color. I'd look at it as a dream home. Wow! to be sitting on the front porch while your house moves to the waterfront then when the tide comes in you back away from the ocean. I would only wish the gods produce such a place to live in!

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   Brendan Biele (57 months ago | reply)

   Wow! 100 yeas ago! Steampunk fosur!

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   Wan Naqie (57 months ago | reply)

   WOW!

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   Yoshi_e (56 months ago | reply)

   San Sebastian was Maria Cristina regent's summer place in the late 19th and the first years of the 20th (that tradition was started by Isabel II, continued by Alfonso XII and XIII ). In that picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_h ouse/2678372526/ you will find her palace (center in the left). This attracted a lot of aristocrats from the royal court, so the beaches of San Sebastian were full of bath houses. This one is the Royal Bath House. Is interesting to see that its oriental style (moroccan) is similar to other buildings of that era, the Belle Epoque, such as the casino of Sant Feliu de Guixols (Girona).

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    mistranslatedcap (56 months ago | reply)

    Just astonishing, thank you for upload this!

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    Cosmovisión (56 months ago | reply)

    Recomiendo leer la entrada al respecto en el fabuloso Blog Fogonazos:

    http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2008/10/un-pala cio-sobre-rales-para-el-bao-real.html

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    cbrmaz (56 months ago | reply)

    What a truely fascinating image and what a wonderful collection brilliant!

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    d_web (56 months ago | reply)

    love it

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    woodendesigner (56 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic. What a great shot.

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    david1701 (56 months ago | reply)

    Brilliant shot, and i MUST have one :D but zoop it up with a steam engine and electric and t'internet

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    jonyvonbecky (56 months ago | reply)

    amazing picture!

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    blacque_jacques (56 months ago | reply)

    There's no obvious chimney, so steam is out. Anyway, you'd need one on each side or, more likely, a big one in the central (chamberlain's?) cabin.

    Servants pedalling in each hut are unlikely, for royal privacy reasons.

    There's a cable running between the tracks from the extreme foreground to the middle of the bathhouse's undercarriage, then splitting off to each side. The cable and its supports look too weak for reeling the cabin in and out from a winch up on the beach, but I could be wrong.

    So it's gotta be electricity, then. A heavy-duty power cable running to the sea seems a recipe for ¡FAIL! so it's more likely a control line from the left and right electric motors to a station up the beach staffed by a servant. it might be better to have one motor and a driveshaft for the left and right carriages, but the driveshaft adds weight, and anyway a single motor would have to weigh almost as much as two separate motors in order to drive the bathhouse.

    After all that, WiFi (discrete-packet aetheric telegraphy) access would be a piece of cake.

    If I recall correctly, King Alfonso had a reputation for being a bit of a geek, so this contrivance was definitely his kind of thing.

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    woolitbe" (55 months ago | reply)

    FABULOUS!!!!! LOve it!!

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    KittyKaht (55 months ago | reply)

    This is bloddy brilliant :)

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    akie.strawberry (55 months ago | reply)

    omg amazing i would love to live in that

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    cltan47 [deleted] (55 months ago | reply)

    Crop off a bit of a top part of sky,

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    Danko Beskid Niski (54 months ago | reply)

    More than necessary for any of the above-mentioned purposes.
    Maybe it could work for sneaking in wetbacks.

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    Excellent Photo (54 months ago | reply)

    Yoshie_e thank you for the info. It's amazing what royalty can do. Even in that era.

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    Spikes Stoneworks (54 months ago | reply)

    I had no idea anything like that existed. Off to learn more, and thank you for sharing this.

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    Saab ® (54 months ago | reply)

    Hola, soy el administrador de un grupo llamado El mural y nos encantaría agregar esto al grupo.

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    Dr Theodolite Zoetrope (54 months ago | reply)

    Worlds First Bouncy Castle needs some fine tuning !!

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    Cengiz.uskuplu (53 months ago | reply)

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    D4rkHorse101 (52 months ago | reply)

    UH, how the hell........

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    danieleferrante (51 months ago | reply)

    I think humidity and mosquitos could be a serious problem in situation like this

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    BSD-46 (43 months ago | reply)

    Eso es nivel y lo demás son tonterías.
    La humedad y los mosquitos no son problema en San Sebastián.

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    abbecedario (32 months ago | reply)

    Ooooh! La concha!
    This recall on my mind my summer holidays in 1997!

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    DavidJcome1 (19 months ago | reply)

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