Going back a bit further in time, two from one of my favorites, described thus:
"Nate Eagle, a sideshow promoter who, with partner Stanley R. Graham, created the scandalous Zoro Gardens nudist colony. Located in a sunken garden east of the Palace of Better Housing (today's Casa de Balboa), Zoro Gardens was, according to the Zoro Gardens program, 'designed to explain to the general public the ideals and advantages of natural outdoor life.' Topless women and bearded men in loincloths read books, sunbathed, and acted in pseudo-religious rituals to the Sun God. According to the program, 'Healthy young men and women, indulging in the freedom of outdoor living in which they so devoutly believe, have opened their colony to the friendly, curious gaze of the public.' The public’s curious gaze quickly turned Zoro Gardens into the Exposition’s most lucrative outdoor attraction. Despite protests, Zoro Gardens lasted for the entire run of the Exposition. The area is now the Zoro Butterfly Garden."
To learn more (including that the exhibit was opposed by, among others a Braille Club!) as well as to see much larger versions of the pictures, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoro_Garden_Nudist_Colony .
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