Dolphin Swimming and Boating CLB

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Historic Photographs 1877 John Wieland and his brothers, along with the Kehrlein brothers, all immigrants from Germany, found the Dolphin Club. Membership is limited to 25, and a small shed at the foot of Leavenworth Street is used as a clubhouse. The first "Ladies Day & Rowing Regatta" is held at Black Point Cove, later to be known as Aquatic Park Cove. 1879 Dolphin Club rowers win the first "Pacific Amateur Rowing Association" Regatta. 1883 Membership limit is increased to 40. 1896 The two-story clubhouse at the foot of Van Ness is completed. 1911 Hazel Langenour becomes the first woman to swim the Golden Gate, August 11. 1915 The concept for Aquatic Park is approved. 1917 The first Golden Gate group swim is organized by the Dolphin Club. 1923 Hyde Street Pier built by Southern Pacific for its car ferries.Charles M. Farrell is instrumental in getting the Pier built. Ferryboats take autos and passengers to Sausalito and Berkeley from Hyde Street Pier for several years. 1925 Black Point Cove becomes the property of the City of San Francisco. In exchange, produce exchange property is given toPacific Railroad. 1927 Clubs are moved from the foot of Van Ness to the foot of Larkin Street. 1931 The first pilings for the new pier (Muni Pier) are driven. 1937 The clubs are jacked up and moved on rollers from their site at the foot of Larkin Street to their current site at the foot of Hyde Street. The clubs still own their buildings at this point and pay nothing to the City in rent. The city agrees to pay $3,800, the cost of moving the clubs, in return for the clubs' deeding their buildings to the city and signing tenancy agreements with the city. 1939 Aquatic Park opened to the public. 1939-45 Aquatic Park serves as a military headquarters 1949 The "Dolphin Log" makes its debut . 1950 The Aquatic Park boathouse is leased to the Maritime Museum Association. The Dolphin Club wins the Pacific Amateur Oarsmen Regatta. 1953 The "Fort Sutter", an old riverboat built in 1912, is pulled up next to the South End and the Dolphin Club. 1959 The Fort Sutter is burned to the waterline, allegedly by disgruntled members of the South End Rowing Club. 1960 First organized Alcatraz swim. 1967 Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Evans swims from the Farallon Islands to Point Bolinas (20 miles north of San Francisco), becoming the first and only person to achieve this feat. The swim of 19.57 miles begins at 10:17 pm on August 27th and finishes at 12 pm the next afternoon, at water temperatures ranging between 56 to 58 degrees. Several pilot rowboats and other craft accompany the swimmer. 1974 Honorary life member Jack LaLanne, shackled and manacled, tows a rowboat from Alcatraz to the club in less than 90 minutes. 1975 The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is formed from an assortment of Bay Area parks and seashores. The state transfers Aquatic Park, with its expensive restoration projects on schooners like the "C.A. Thayer" and "Wapama" and the tugboat "Eppleton Hall", to the better funded federal government. 1976 Women are admitted to the two clubs. The South Enders and Dolphins are required to sign separate leases with the City.

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