Finnish bath

If Finland was still there- Wherever the world was- Maybe the girls would like a Finnish bath.

The word sauna is an ancient Finnish word referring to the traditional Finnish bath and to the bathhouse itself.

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This is the period when Finnila's Finnish Baths began serving customers in the Castro District of San Francisco.

Matti Finnila established a bricklaying business and in the early 1910s opened a Finnish-style sauna club, Finnila's Finnish Baths, for the general public.

The Finnila family needed a larger facility for their Finnila's Finnish Baths health club business, and in 1932 the construction work of their new bathhouse was concluded on the lot.

Finnila's Finnish Baths - a.k.a. Finnila's - was a Finnish bathhouse and a health club in San Francisco, California in USA.

In 1902, Matti Finnila (Finnish spelling: Finnilä), the future founder of Finnila's Finnish Baths, immigrated from Kalajoki, Finland to Los Angeles, California.

During the filming of Dirty Harry, the movie crew - including the actor Clint Eastwood - visited Finnila's Finnish Baths in San Francisco for sauna bathing and for massage.

Next, Matti Finnila's son Alfred Finnila designed and constructed a large new Finnila's Finnish Baths bathhouse building on the busy Market Street, at the corner of Noe Street.

Until the final shutdown on Market Street of the popular Finnila's Finnish Baths, its c. 65 employees and many customers visited Cafe Flore daily, and many have remained a part of the Finnila's-Cafe-Flore family up to the present day.

Director Don Siegel filmed the final scenes of the 1971 movie Dirty Harry on the Larkspur Landing area owned by Alfred Finnila - owner of Finnila's Finnish Baths - as well as the adjacent East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Larkspur, California.