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WWII Bunkers and Gun Sites
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WWII Bunkers and Gun Sites
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This location has been labeled by its creator as Public, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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Some of these bunker and batteries are quite exstensive. Make sure you are up to the challenge of exploring them all. Weeks could be spent here and other locations along California's central coast looking for and locating other bunkers. They stretch from Santa Cruz all the way up to Bodega Bay. Take the trip and enjoy yourselves...
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Type: Bunkers, Tunnels, Buildings, Etc.
Status: Closed
Accessibility: Moderate
Recommendation: Check it out if you're nearby.
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rust
unsafe flooring
water
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Actual WWII and Civil War batteries and bunkers. If you can find your way insides some of them, you will be suprised at what is there... In some of them there is still writing and grafitti from soldiers who were stationed there 150 years ago.
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fences
barbed wire
razor wire
dogs
locked gates
welded doors
Any and all of these, plus Park Police which are Federal Officers.
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flashlight
breathing mask
gloves
head protection
long pants / sleeves
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Water and something to snack on.
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Most of these bunkers were built to defend San Francisco from the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. Politians thought that the Rebs might want to try to capture San Francisco and hold it hostage for all the gold that was flowing through there from the 1849 Gold Rush. Therefore, batteries and bunkers were built.Marin Headlands was a military base until the late 1960s.
It was the counterpart to the Presidio, designed to protect San Francisco Bay from invasion. The military constructed five installations among the rolling hills. Each one was obsolete upon or before completion.
Bunkers and batteries, underground concrete buildings, are ghostly remnants of a time past. Skeletal steel arms reach out from hillsides. Monterey pines and cypress, accidentally planted by seeds caught in truck tires on loan from the Monterey bases, mark the spot where bunkers and batteries lie.
When the military's tenure ended, there was intense debate about the future of the vast open space. The military planned to sell the land. A development contractor began to make plans to develop a modern Bay Area community for 20,000 people. "Marincello" was never built due to a business-deal-gone-sour and intervention from the community. Remnants of development are still visible: the Rodeo Ave highway exit-to-nowhere on Highway 101 North and the Marincello trailhead out of Tennessee Valley.
There were also used during WWII as lookout posts and gun batteries in case we were invaded by the Japanese.
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Possible restoration or complete demolition. No one is quite sure.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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6 / 10 |
| Coolness |
7 / 10 |
| Content Quality |
8 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Steed on 6/30/2014 7:15 AM.
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on Jun 30 14 at 7:15, Anonymous validated this location
on Jun 30 14 at 0:55, Anonymous changed the following: City, Latitude, Longitude, Co-ordinate Accuracy
on Nov 8 05 at 21:07, Anonymous created a new gallery
on Apr 29 05 at 1:25, Anonymous changed the main information
on Nov 9 04 at 3:55, Anonymous made this location available
on Mar 1 04 at 23:59, Anonymous updated a gallery picture
on Mar 1 04 at 23:54, Anonymous created a new gallery
on Mar 1 04 at 20:27, Anonymous changed the main information
on Mar 1 04 at 20:19, Anonymous updated basic gallery info
on Mar 1 04 at 20:19, Anonymous created a new gallery
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