Hastings operated the backyard hot tub from 1975 until his death on Saturday.
A person found Deward Hastings, 78, dead in the hot tub in his Essex Street backyard on Saturday afternoon, the Berkeley Police Department told the San Francisco Examiner in an email on Tuesday afternoon.
As of press time, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office hadn’t responded to the San Francisco Examiner’s request for comment on Tuesday afternoon. This story will be updated when we hear back. Hastings, known colloquially as the “Hot Tub Guy,” operated the backyard hot tub from 1975 until his death on Saturday. He told the Chronicle in 2000 that he intended to create “a natural hot spring in Berkeley,” leaving the gate open on evenings and weekends before switching to a coded lock system.
Hastings estimated in 2000 that some 30,000 people had used his hot tub, with the codes often circulating through word of mouth. All the while, he refused donations.
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