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Quixotic
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< on 2/19/2007 6:47 PM >
|  | | | Here's a google image of where i want to explore:
(to the right of The "GG Bridge")
http://maps.google....002688&iwloc=addr
Has anyone been inside this structure? or know what it was once used for?
I have visited the military bunkers located on the top of the hill to the left of the GGB.
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sigma
    
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| |  | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 1 on 2/19/2007 10:34 PM >
| | | | Good luck. Theres a massive 10+ foot fence with barbed wire that blocks access from the shore. Lots of Park Rangers and Coast Guards passing there every few minutes. The building is very interesting and old, but thats going to be one difficult location.
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| | | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 2 on 2/19/2007 10:40 PM >
| | | | edit: didnt mean to reply here
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<Reply # 3 on 2/20/2007 12:15 AM >
| | | | Ooh that looks sweet. Must be so heavily guarded because of the bridge and all, but I still find it weird that they'd go to such lengths to protect a ruin. Although it does have an active beacon on it which I could see being a concern...
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big dave
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| | | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 4 on 2/20/2007 12:25 AM >
| | | | Lime Point Lighthouse.
http://www.lightho...m/light.asp?ID=146
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<Reply # 5 on 2/22/2007 5:45 PM >
| | | | I'll take a looksie. It might be possible. Security has usually not been a problem for me.
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| | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 6 on 2/22/2007 9:03 PM >
| | | | Sorry to derail the tread momentarily, but I have to say nice pic of the Queen Mary II Sigma... I was just down the beach from there when she came in!
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| | | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 7 on 2/24/2007 10:33 PM >
| | | | FYI. Just saw an article this week saying Lime Point, along with 4 other bay area light houses, is being transferred from the Coast Guard to the national park service. It said they'd be trying to figure out how to open them up to the public, but Lime Point was going to stay closed, for security reasons, since it's right under the golden gate.
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Beacons of history will shine on
Park Service to take over, preserve 5 of Bay Area's outmoded lighthouses
Chuck Squatriglia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 22, 2007
The lighthouses of the Golden Gate are going the way of the crow's nest, the sextant and Morse code.
The romantic icons of the sea have been replaced by high-tech buoys, shipboard computers and global positioning satellites. The Coast Guard no longer needs the lighthouses, no longer wants them and is giving them to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
"They're obsolete," Petty Officer Russ Tippets said Wednesday. "They're no longer relevant in today's maritime realm."
National Park Service officials are working out a deal to take over the lighthouses at Point Montara, Point Bonita, Point Diablo, Lime Point and Alcatraz. The goal is to have them refurbished within a few years so the public can visit them.
"It's an exciting opportunity," said Chris Powell, spokeswoman for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. "Lighthouses are part of the history of this area, and people are captivated by them."
Park officials toured the lighthouses earlier this week to get an idea of what's needed to make them shipshape. Although the five lighthouses are within the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Coast Guard has been responsible for maintaining them.
But the Coast Guard doesn't have the time, the money or the inclination to do more than keep the beacons flashing and foghorns blowing. Paint has faded, metal has corroded, and concrete has chipped. Yet they retain their mystique.
"If we could staff this lighthouse, it would be packed with people seven days a week," Powell said Wednesday at Point Bonita.
The lighthouse at Point Bonita has stood for 153 years atop a windswept rock that juts into the sea from the westernmost point of the Marin Headlands. Steep cliffs drop 267 feet to the ocean, which batters Point Bonita hard enough to spray the lighthouse with mist. A 1,000-watt lamp illuminates a Fresnel lens at 2-second intervals. It turns on and off with a click that echoes through the lighthouse.
Point Bonita underscores the restoration challenge facing the park service. Only two people at a time can safely cross the corroded steel-and-timber suspension bridge linking the lighthouse to the mainland. That limits the number of visitors on the three days a week the lighthouse is open.
"It's not just a matter of slapping on some paint," said Paul Batlan, park real estate analyst.
Restoring the lighthouses so they are safe enough for visitors will take a lot of time -- and a lot of money. For example, repairing the bridge at Point Bonita will cost about $1.2 million, Batlan said.
Point Montara near Half Moon Bay is in better shape because state parks officials have been managing it with help from Hosteling International, which runs a popular hostel there. Nothing will change there for the time being, and park officials said they are inclined to let the hostel stay.
Batlan said the lighthouse at Alcatraz also could be opened to the public, but it too needs a lot of work.
Lime Point, directly beneath the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge, will remain off-limits for security reasons. And Point Diablo, which is little more than a shack perched atop a rock, can be reached only by boat.
In the months to come, experts will assess the structural integrity of the lighthouses and determine how to address environmental issues such as lead paint and asbestos. Then they'll map out a plan for restoring the lighthouses and opening them to the public. The Coast Guard will continue to maintain the beacons and foghorns, but everything else will be the park's responsibility.
There's still the question of how the agency will pay for it all. Although the $2.4 billion budget President Bush has proposed for the National Park Service includes $23.9 million for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, it doesn't include any money to restore or staff the lighthouses.
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| |  | | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 8 on 2/25/2007 3:14 AM >
| | | | I don't see any obvious cameras. Go in there at night and hop the fence. ;)
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| | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 9 on 2/25/2007 11:07 PM >
| | | | IR beams, movement detectors, contact points, heat sensors, etc. All a part of many security measurements at the GG Bridge.
Not just a simple solution of not seeing a camera or two and hoping the fence.
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Quixotic
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| | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 10 on 2/26/2007 2:07 PM >
| | | | i would be willing to go with someone, seems how i dont live in SF...
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Quixotic
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| | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 11 on 2/26/2007 2:49 PM >
| | | | Addditional Information:
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LIME POINT LIGHT
Location: Entrance of the San Francisco Bay, adjacent to the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito, California
Station Established: 1883
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1900
Operational: NO
Automated: YES 1961
Deactivated: 1961
Characteristics: Fixed White
Fog Signal: Steam boilers & whistles
Foundation Materials:
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE BRICK TOWER MOUNTED ON THE WALL OF FOG SIGNAL BUILDING
Markings/Pattern: WHITE
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens
Historical Information:
This sight was originally a fog station established in 1883.
A square brick tower was added to the fog signal building in 1900.
The keeper’s house was razed in 1961 after the light was deactivated in 1961.
The site is still an active aid to navigation. However the Coast Guard is considering deactivating the fog signal.
***Researched and written by Melissa Buckler, a Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Light House Society volunteer.
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http://www.lightho...house.cfm?value=28
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trevelyan
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| | | | Re: SF-Odd Building Beneath Golden Gate Bridge
<Reply # 12 on 4/1/2007 2:43 AM >
| | | | I dropped by there today, security looked pretty heavy. The Coast Guard station is within sight of the fences and the lighthouse. The fences are a good 10 feet high with barbed wire. From where I was standing on the road I could see a few cameras on the way, and it's a pretty narrow road with little room to move. The road goes for about a quarter mile. It appears there's another fence around the building. I was getting some strange looks from the coast guard just standing outside the fences. I also spotted a few floodlights mounted near cameras. The easiest, and possibly the only reasonable way to the lighthouse would be with a small boat and pulling in around the back. If anyone knows of any ways to get around the security, let me know! I'd love to visit the building with someone. Looks awesome.
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