Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, you know, we had to fortify the coast against those teeming millions from the East paddling assault canoes to storm our sanctified soil. But seriously, those gun batteries were obsolete before they were even finished. Unfortunately, the 14" guns, or thereabouts, are long gone. Santa Monica still has two guns on its bluffs from the Spanish-American War. Until just this last decade the San Pedro bunkers were a fall back command and control center for the Coast Guard in the eventuality of a Nuclear War. They are so contaminated with asbestose, that you have to wonder what would of killed our noble DoT warriors first. Slobodan Dimitrov Jim Brick wrote: > > At 07:20 PM 8/17/01 -0700, S Dimitrov wrote: > >Thanks Pascal. You just reminded me to photograph a series of bunkers we > >have here in San Pedro, CA for my LA Library project. Yep, that's right > >we've got the real critters here ourselves. > > > >Slobodan Dimitrov > > Yup... we do too. Right here in San Francisco and Marin. Bunker city. Great > places from which to shoot, er, photograph the Golden Gate Bridge. > > Jim