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inscription: 1. These ladies are not exactly sports, but swimming was a sport even in the days of these cumbersome suits. This is an artists conception of ladies disporting themselves in the waters of the old Piedmont Baths in the days when Oakland had cable cars. Look closely at the man at the end of the balcony; he is taking in the sights with the aid of binoculars.2. Not Nikini bathing suits, exactly, but the gent, far left, likes these artist studies of ladies disporting themselves int the waters of the old Piedmont Baths. This wsa in theose dear dead days when the resoirt was on the line of the Piedmont Cable Road near Lake Merritt.