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| 2001/8/23-24 [Reference/BayArea, Reference/Military] UID:22222 Activity:high |
8/23 My brother with his friend are coming to town and he wants me to show
him interesting places in Bay Area. What are the good places
to take them to? I have no clue myself. I haven't come out of
Berkeley in ages ..
\_ Winchester Mystery House - 1 hour drive, but very worth it
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com -brain
\_ http://www.grin.net/~mirthles/web/sanfrancisco_latest.html
It's the goth-geek-freak-hipster-nerd guide to SF, worth a look
for this sort of thing.
\_ Golden Gate Park, Koit Tower, Lombard Avenue, Haight/Ashbury,
Jack London Sq, Sony Metrion, ...
\_ twin peaks, mount tam, stinson, sausalito.. the metreon is
far from interesting..
\_ drive to monterey
\_ Boys Toys in North Beach.
\_ What does your bro likes to do? I mean, you could start with
'regulation-standard' touristy places such as Pier 39, Ghirardeli
Square, Golden Gate Bridge, and the likes. If he wants something
unique, drive down to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Ditto on the
Monterey, not to be missed. If he likes museums, plenty of that too,
including the SF Exploratorium. Ask them for specifics. - jthoms
\_ maybe you can show him the homeless on telegraph.
\_ The homeless one Telegraph? You mean history majors, right?
\_ Heck, you can see homeless anywhere. The ones on telegraph are
just more in the way.
\_ I've always liked going to Napa Valley.
\_ I think this is part of Fort Baker in Marin.
\_ I'm looking into it, but here's a URL that might be somewhat
useful. -mice
http://nikemissile.org/closemap.html
http://nikemissile.org/ifcpage.html
\_ Mitchell Bros. in SF.
army lookout points. These links point to the primary sites.
\_ You can take him to the abandoned WWII-era army bases in Marin.
They're open to the public. History, hiking, beautiful
California coastline, etc. -mice
\_ is there a formal name for this place?
\_ Fort Barry, probably. -mice
http://www.militarymuseum.org/FtBarry.html
The whole area is stuffed with old gun emplacements and
army lookout points. If you do end up going, remember to
bring warm clothes.
\_ Is there places to camp around there?
\_ Also the USS Hornet or USS Jeremiah O'Brien
\_ Take them to a club so they can pick up some nice women.
\_ Show them both Telegraph and U. Ave at $tanfurd. Then they can
see that college cultures can be very different even for schools
that are close to each other. How old are they and where are
they from anyway?
\_ Telegraph avenue is good for being asked "spare change for pot"
and smelling urine or feces that ocassionally graces the
street, but not much else.
\_ before you can accept Telegraph avenue, you must come to
grips with the telegraph avenue within yourself. |
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| www.winchestermysteryhouse.com References 1. |
| www.grin.net/~mirthles/web/sanfrancisco_latest.html Weather 'tis nobler to freeze or roast * 10 Driving for Lunatics and Tourists * 11 Parking * 12 Public Transit + 13 How to get from SoMa to Haight + 14 How to get from SoMa to the Mission + 15 How to get from the Haight to the Castro + 16 How to get from SoMa to Noe Valley. Maybe + 17 Some notes about transit prices + 18 Problems after midnight * 19 The Other Side of the Clock * 20 Walking * 21 A scumzoid by any other name * 22 Once around the neighborhoods + 23 The Bart stations along Market. |
| nikemissile.org/closemap.html During the first Sunday "Open House" there is usually a dog show in the kennel area and you can see a missile raised into its firing position and visit the magazine. Travel approximately 100 yards, through a cut in the mountain, then take the first left. After exiting the tunnel continue west on Bunker Road for approximately 2 miles. About 150 yards after the fork you will see the Park Visitors Center on your right. Site SF-88L will be the first right you come to beyond the Visitors Center parking lot. Turn right onto the frontage road then proceed under the freeway approximately 200 yards, through a cut in the mountain, then take the first left. After exiting the tunnel continue west on Bunker Road for approximately 2 miles. About 150 yards after the fork you will see the Park Visitors Center on your right. Site SF-88L will be the first right you come to beyond the Visitors Center parking lot. |
| nikemissile.org/ifcpage.html From a distance it looks as though the Army just left, but vandals and time have really messed things up. About 50 feet of the road up to the site is washed out, so you will have to hike up the mountain. I'm sure there aren't too many punks that will hike up 900+ feet to spray paint their initials on the walls. |
| www.militarymuseum.org/FtBarry.html Photo courtesy National Park Service At the end of the 19th Century, when modem artillery of greatly increased range and calibers came into use, the line of defenses that protected San Francisco Bay shifted westward to a line stretching from Point Bonita to Point Lobos. North of the Golden Gate at Point Bonita, this would require a whole new series of gun emplacements on the Marin Headlands. It would represent an attempt to match the size and range of the heaviest guns that could be carried on an enemy warship, and by locating batteries on the westernmost points of land north and south of the strait and west of San Francisco Bay, keep enemy warships beyond a range from which they could shell the city and its harbor. But it was not until after the beginning of the 20th Century that, spurred by the recent Spanish-American War of 1898, army engineers actually began construction of large gun emplacements north of the Golden Gate at new locations to the west, toward the ocean. This land was technically the western end of Fort Baker, which in 1897 had replaced the Lime Point Military Reservation of 1850, but it was known unofficially at first as the Point Bonita Military Reservation. BATTERY PATRICK O'RORKE - It was built to mount four 15-pounder, 3 inch guns on Model 1903 pedestal mounts. The battery was nevertheless named on December 27, 1904 in honor of Colonel Patrick Henry O'Rorke, killed at Gettysburg during the Civil War in July 1863. All of the above batteries were transferred to the Coast Artillery Corps on June 8, 1905. Meanwhile, the beginning of this construction program with Battery Mendell in 1901 logically would require subsequent construction of a garrison to house the men who manned the guns. The first detachment of an officer and 23 enlisted men from Fort Baker, which arrived at the Point Bonita batteries in July 1903, was forced to live in the magazines of Batteries Mendell and Alexander. Subsequently, the artillery detachment occupied several successive temporary camps. Finally on July 16, 1904, the Secretary of War authorized construction of a permanent post for two companies of the Coast Artillery Corps on December 27, 1904, the War Department designated the new post "Fort Barry" in honor of Brigadier General William F. Barry, a colonel of the 2nd Artillery who had died in 1879. The garrison structures comprised basically two small complexes of buildings. The main complex was aligned on the sloping hillside around a small dead end valley or ravine, the lower reaches of which accommodated a sloping Parade Ground. The structures were laid out like a backward "J" with the top of the letter to the west . Around the comer of the hillside southwest of this complex were three more buildings which constituted the quartermaster/commissary/ordnance complex. In January 1905 the Quartermaster Department invited bids for construction of the twenty-one garrison buildings, all frame except the corrugated iron oil house. The buildings were finished in the spring of 1907, but the first occupants, the 161st Company of the Coast Artillery Corps, did not move in until February 12, 1908. The buildings of the new post included duplex officers' and noncommissioned officers' quarters, a twelve-bed hospital, two three-story barracks containing mess halls and kitchens, a guardhouse, a headquarters, and (around the point of the hill to the southwest) a complex of warehouses, stables, firehouse and other support buildings. In 1922, Battery Guthrie was divided for better management of the weapons, and the two guns on the left flank were named on March 22 for Hamilton A. Smith, a West Point graduate killed in action at Soissons, France, during World War I in 1918. At the same time, Battery Rathbone was similarly divided, its left flank guns being named for James F. McIndoe, an engineer officer who served in France as a brigadier general, where he died in 1918. |