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| The Golden Gate Bridge from Battery Wallace |
Battery Ledyard was put into service in 1899. It was armed with two 5" guns |
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| Rock crusher built in 1931 to crush rock for road pavement |
Rock quarry |
Rock crusher |
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Rock crusher |
Rock crusher |
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| Battery Drew was put into service in 1898. Its location was know as "Mortar Hill." The 8" shell that it fired had a range of 20 miles |
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Battery Drew |
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| Battery Drew bunker. Commanding Officer quarters |
Battery Drew |
Battery Drew ammunition storage |
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| Battery Drew bunker |
Point Blunt. This the site of a present day Coast Guard Station |
San Francisco and Alcatraz island. Alcatraz was an Army prison prior to becoming a Federal Penitentiary. Below Battery Drew was "Alcatraz Gardens." This was the location where vegetables were grown as food for the Army prisoners of Alcatraz |
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| Site of a Nike missile launching facility. Built in 1954 and dismantled in 1962. 12 missiles could be fired simultaneously |
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Nike missile site |
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| Nike missile site |
Emergency exit from the underground missile storage area |
It appears that the storage area is 25 feet below ground. No, I did not go down the stairs |
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| One of three notches carved in the hill to give missile line of sight to the radar control station which was located in the distance on Mount Caroline Livermore |
San Francisco from the Nike missile site |
The Bay Bridge with Oakland and the East Bay Hills in the distance |
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| The Administration Building of Fort McDowell. Also know as "East Garrison," this military base was named Fort McDowell on 4 April 1900 |
The Administration Building |
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| Drive safely...or else |
The Fort McDowell chapel |
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| The interior of the Fort McDowell chapel |
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Originally a 70 bed hospital, this building was used as the headquarters of the Nike missile battalion from 1954 through 1962 |
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| Hospital |
Hospital. Note the crossed cannon insignia on the summit of the parapet. An indication that the final use of the hospital was as a HQ building for an artillery outfit...the Nike missile battalion |
Hospital courtyard |
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| Hospital exterior |
Hospital interior |
Hospital interior |
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| Hospital latrine |
Hospital interior |
the rear of the hospital |
