We found this short clip of people frolicking at the Sutro Baths -- that looks like so much fun! -- shot by Thomas Edison on October 25, 1897....

We've been hoping that at least one of our online reserves would come in, as we're presently library book free. So many times a day we check our email hoping for a notice telling us that Mozart In The Jungle has arrived, only to be confronted by the usual opportunities for fake Rolexes and "male enhancement patches". It's just not the same. But don't cry for us quite yet, as we do have plenty......

Today, SFist would like to hoist a few for a man who has brought probably more joy and merriment to anyone over the past hundred years. In fact, one could argue that he's probably had more of an impact on people's lives over the past century or so than anyone. The man? Master Brewer Joseph Owades, inventor of Lite beer and Microbrews, the Thomas Edison of beers. Owades, a Bay Area resident who lived in Sonoma, died yesterday at 86. ...