Episode 85 - Point Bonita Lighthouse

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Hi everyone, I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're

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button presser. Here's what's fun First off.

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Hi everyone. Welcome to 85 episode 85 You got

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every time. Okay, so welcome to 85. Thank you.

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going to give a shout out. I found out. So we

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have pretty low listens right now on YouTube.

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Oh, YouTube. I was like, you're lying. Our podcast

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I do for fun. Which it is. We make no money.

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So anyways, thanks. Thanks, everybody, for coming.

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But I want to give a shout out to one of the

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people who is keeping our YouTube alive. Alex

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at work. Oh, thank you, Alex. That's nice. He

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told me he prefers to watch on YouTube. He doesn't

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always watch. He says he listens. But YouTube,

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he has like a premium account, I guess. So, OK,

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no ads. And I was like, well, we also don't do

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ads. So I can understand the appeal of. sometimes

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watching like people do the podcast, but I, I

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don't know. I feel more calm listening and my

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eyes don't also have to be activated, you know?

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Yeah. That's yeah. I like podcasts for that reason

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where it's like you're listening and that's the

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best part is like, I don't have to also be staring

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at a screen to enjoy it. Right. Like a movie.

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I'm almost always driving. I watched zero TV.

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Movies are great. So I've got to let everyone

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down. There's no history buoy today. That's okay.

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I had one started. I know what it is still, but

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I couldn't find the source material, and so I

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don't want to just like half do it. I appreciate

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that. No buoy. I used to have a lot more buoys

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to skip to catch up to me. Well, we're doing

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good. So let's just get started. Okay. I had

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this lighthouse on my list for a long time. My

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list is much shorter than Emily's list. It's

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huge. But I'm supposed to check her list, and

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I didn't until I was already like halfway through

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the research. That's okay. And so I poached one.

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Great minds think alike. Welcome. What is it?

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To Point Bonita. Bonita. Yes. Okay, I don't know

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anything about it. Cool. That's perfect. That's

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what we do here. Was it a listener lighthouse

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or no? No, it didn't have any credits. I wonder

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how I put that on my list. So Point Bonita Lighthouse,

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the reason it was on my list, it was the second

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batch of eight lighthouses added to the state

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of California. Oh, yes. And you've covered one

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of them at least. Another one that was on our

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list and you had already covered was Hereford.

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No, you covered. Oh, it was on your list also.

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Oh, was it? Yeah. Oh. Because it's the same.

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I forget. I wish I'd, this is the time when I

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should say, because I know, but I don't know.

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Oh. That architecture. Yeah, yeah. They applied

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it to all those lighthouses. The first four were

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carried over. East to west coast. Yeah, stick.

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That sounds right. Stick something. Stick style.

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Stick. Stick. And then, you know, Victorian,

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Gothic. Yeah. Anyway, so there's some architecture

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that's shared between those. But there's a couple.

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And Alcatraz Island is really close to this.

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It's in the San Francisco Bay. So we're going

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to talk about that first. Okay, great. So here's

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a little look at the cover. I just made it. And

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we're going to use the link for Vader Abode Lite

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because that's the last one I looked at on Google

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Maps. So we're going to go from Sweden. We're

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going to just show you Sweden to San Francisco.

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It's just like that. Boom, just pop on over.

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At least you know where it is. I would be like,

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where is it? San Francisco. And then it's over

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here. I would have to type it in. No chance.

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I actually did test this out like a minute ago

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to see if I could find it. And then I just left

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the Vaderobold. Yeah, it just happened that way.

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There was a lot going on. Anyways, that's a Sweden

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lighthouse that I covered last. If you're interested

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in checking that out. Yeah, Vaderobold. Starts

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with a V. Here's San Francisco. And here we have

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the Golden Gate Bridge. Oh, look at that. That's

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cool. Google does this like 360 thing I've never

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seen before. Brand new. Alcatraz and East Brother

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Island is a little bit north. Yes, of course.

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Where's brother? Excuse me. Keep going. It's

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past the little nub. Or no. Yeah. Zoom in. There

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it is. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. You can't see

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pink on blue. I'm too far from the screen. My

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glasses are not made for this. Okay, so anyways,

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here we're in San Francisco, and I'll read from

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my notes, but a couple things, just kind of fun

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facts that don't really fit in anywhere else.

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Yeah, got to start with them. Obviously, it's

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near the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a long

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history in San Francisco. It's worth looking

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up on its own. It's known as the hidden gem of

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San Francisco because it's literally hidden behind

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a rock. Point Bonita? Point Bonita. That's not

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very good for a lighthouse. It's really pretty.

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It's good. Okay. There's a purpose. But not for

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like seeing it from the city of San Francisco.

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Oh, I see what you're saying. You got to go out

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there. And then I have a gap on here. Open Sunday

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and Monday. I'm actually not sure. There's been

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a lot of changes. Yeah. But keep in mind as we

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listen, you can visit. Right now, currently,

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there's a bridge that typically you would cross

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that's closed for repairs. So we'll come back

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to that. It's hard to get to. Yeah. So really

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at this moment, I can't recommend going there.

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But it's been great to visit. It looks great

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to visit again. So, of course, it's busy because

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it's in California. But, hey, to visit it, there's

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a walk down a trail. It's about a mile. You have

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to get to the island. There's a door that is

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often closed. The door is closed because they're

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not open. If it's open, the door goes through

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a tunnel. And then maybe at the end we can watch

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a little YouTube video. Cool. Just you and I.

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I like it when they make getting there an adventure

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too. There's a tunnel. There's a cliff side walking

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path with railing and such. And then there's

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a bridge that was built in the 50s, I think,

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the last bridge, the latest of the bridges, 1950s,

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that resembles the Golden Gate Bridge in style.

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Cute. So if I'm going to flash back to our slides,

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you're going to see that kind of that cable support

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style. Yeah. So that's the bridge. That's cute.

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What else do I want to say about that? Do you

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have to do all that just to get there? Like cliffside

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walkway? Yeah, it's one mile total in walking.

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Climbing is not open to the public. I don't think

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it ever actually has been. Is it because the

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lens is still in there? The lens is still there.

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Second order. Pretty cool. Jealous. Also, last

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little fun fact that doesn't really fit in the

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history here. Someone referred to it as pobo.

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P -O -B -O. Point Bonita. Oh my gosh. So I'm

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going to call it Pobo sometimes because I like

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that. You know the people who actually live there

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are like, no. No, it's not Pobo. Pobo. You have

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to say the whole thing. Point Bonita Lighthouse.

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Or maybe that's like a fond term for it. Could

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be an endearment. Like by the locals. Yeah. You

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know. Surf's up or whatever. I don't even know.

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I have no idea if like you can surf in the San

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Francisco area. No idea. Probably. There's an

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ocean. There is water. So I'm going to bring

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up, here's an image, the original Point Bonita

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Lighthouse. That reminds me of Split Rock, just

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how it's placed. That's pretty neat. Very sheer

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cliff going on. Humongous. How high up is that?

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Sorry, you can just continue on your notes. That's

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okay. It was a 60 -foot conical brick tower situated

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260 feet above the sea. Whoa. Yeah. 260 feet.

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Pretty high. Well, because like looking at this

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photo that you have pulled up, it looks very

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short. 60 feet. That's six stories tall. Yeah.

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It's a tall second order Fresnel lens. I heard

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one of the guys who has made a video that I watched

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and they said a Fresnel lens or Fresnel. I think

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he said Fresnel. And I was like, no. Like, what

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an American. Am I right? Now that we know one

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thing, I'm an expert, of course. Hey, we can

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be annoyed. It took a long time for us to get

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that correct. Yeah, we asked that question. We

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asked that question. How is it pronounced? So

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Fresnel. So the original tower, we're going to

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talk about, it actually wasn't a good idea of

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where it was put. And you can probably deduce

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why. Well, you know. Too high? Funny enough,

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too high. Oh. So yeah, I'm just going to, well,

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I might have to skip this later, but the original

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lighthouse, the first one which we're viewing,

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60 foot conical brick tower, 260 feet over the

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sea. It's a one and a half story brick and stone

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cottage that went with it. Yeah. That was built

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near the tower. It's not shown in this image

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though. Is it like tucked behind there or something?

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Don't know. It's not there anymore. Oh, that's

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a shame. Yeah, and the first head keeper lit

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the lamp so that the lighting was May 2nd of

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1855. All right. And his name was Edward Colston.

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So kind of cool. First keeper. Okay. So in the

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1850s, there was the gold rush, the 49ers, right?

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Yeah. She's smiling so big. The gold rush. The

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gold rush. You know the gold rush when we all

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went up to California. I don't know what accent

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that is. All right, 1849 was, right, the big

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pop. So in the 1850s, California exploded. There

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was a growth in San Francisco from 20 ,000 was

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the ending population. I think it was like 5

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,000 people. We don't talk about the gold rush

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very often. It's come up a couple times in this

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California. Yeah. Because trade made the area

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boom. And there was a couple lighthouses already.

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Lighthouses, so 1850s. So there was already lighthouses

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in the area. Notably, Alcatraz Island and Fort

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Point were in those first batch of eight lighthouses

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that were contracted to be built on the West

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Coast, the wet coast. It is wet. Are they saying

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white coast? Also, if you feel something on you,

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it's because there's a fly just absolutely pestering

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you. I thought that was just schizophrenia coming

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in slowly. It's all over you. I can feel it.

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Must be stinky. Anyways. So the second batch

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of eight lighthouses was this contract that included

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Point Bonita or Pobo. Pobo. So it's because when

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we looked at the map, you know, the bay is obviously

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it's a, you know, C shape with an opening. Yeah.

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Golden Gate Bridge. Bridge is the opening. Very

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interesting how that happened too. What? Like

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just a skinny little channel and then this big.

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Yeah. Bay. And the, I actually don't know that

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that's entirely, I'm sounding dumb, I'm sure,

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if there was any man control to how that worked.

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Probably not. Anyways, California. And so Pobo

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was put out on kind of the tip of the land on

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the north side. So the north side comes down,

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south side comes up. The north side has this

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tip out here. So it was like on the outside?

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On the outside, on the southern face, southern

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and western face towards the water. So there

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was another place discussed. Originally it was

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called Point Lobos, which is another area. It's

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on the south side of the entrance of the Golden

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Gate. But the locals said that actually approaching

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Pobo Bonita would be better because the water

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was deeper there. You could come like... 150

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feet and in, you could hug this thing and then

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come into the bay. Yeah, safe to get close. Right,

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right. So you could go further out to sea, you

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could see the other lights and come in, or it

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would be nice to have another navigation point.

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Yeah. So that's where Pobo came from, the need

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for it. So it was $25 ,000 from Congress, which...

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Oh, that's a lot, $1850. I was going to say,

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it's almost never enough money, but this time

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I guess California was golden. Well, we covered.

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That was March 3rd of 1853. Congress allocated

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those funds. And this is the time of the Lighthouse

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Board in the United States. Fresh or? I don't

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know. Okay, I can't remember the dates. Yeah,

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I can't recall. This is early on, I think, when

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westward expansion became part of the Lighthouse

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Board's concerns, I think was these years. I

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mean, it was really when they started building

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that program out there. But it was kind of an

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expensive mistake to choose the point that they

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chose, which is what we talked about. It was

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too high. They planned actually for the lighthouse

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to sit on the highest hill on Punta Bonita. That's

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not always better. It's not. There is a time

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when, which what most people probably think,

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oh yeah, put the light as high as you can. It'll

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go the furthest. You can reference it. That's

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what we've discovered not true. So the fog in

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this area in particular, even to today, is notorious

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for being high setting fog. So that didn't really

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work with the lighthouse. Yeah. Quite often,

00:14:33.899 --> 00:14:36.659
the lighthouse was shrouded in fog, rendering

00:14:36.659 --> 00:14:39.519
it nearly useless to the men at sea. Yeah, I

00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.419
can imagine. So because it couldn't be seen and

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they had just built it, they needed some type

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of signal for non -visible time. So an eight

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foot long cannon was purchased. Oh no. Cannon

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time. A cannon. A dude named Edward Maloney was

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hired to fire this cannon. So he was a retired

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army sergeant at the time. And his job was to

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be on staff to fire it every half hour in times

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of fog. Which is like all the time. Almost all

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the time. So where is this? Big seasonal. Right.

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But continually firing a cannon. Did they actually

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shoot something out of the cannon? Is that what

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makes the sound? Okay, I don't know what makes.

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Basically like a big fiery trumpet. Boom. Yeah,

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just a boom. Boom, am I right? I mean, even Fort

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Hayes State, if you're familiar, that's where

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I'm from, but they had a cannon at the football

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games, and they would fill a balloon with, I

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think it was acetylene, I'm actually not sure.

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Oh, my. Some flammable gas, and they would put

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it down into the cannon, and the cannon faced

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the crowd at a range of 100 yards. You know,

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it was off. off the face of the crowd and anytime

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there was a touchdown a guy with an acetylene

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torch you know a welder's torch would hold it

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to the hole which would ignite it and it was

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it was loud i don't know if it's as loud as an

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actual cannon firing like if there's a cannonball

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if it's louder the charge is more or whatever

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but it was loud and they do it again if they

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made a field goal which is oh you know what is

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it pat the field goal right after the uh you

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know Sports. Yeah. Anyways, so. You're talking

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to the wrong person about that. You're like,

00:16:18.769 --> 00:16:20.289
yeah, yeah, yeah, sports ball. Yeah, that's tough.

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Yeah, the point extra, yeah. Yeah, point after

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touchdown. Anyways. Six to seven. So they'd fire

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this cannon in times of fog. That started August

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8th, 1855. So it was just months later. Yeah,

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they were like, wait a minute. He sent a complaint

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via a letter to the secretary of the lighthouse

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board. Quote. Whoa. Oh, my gosh. End quote. The

00:17:13.419 --> 00:17:15.519
guy firing the cannon. Because it's so often.

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Because it's every 30 minutes. You can't sleep.

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That doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it's like,

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are you wanting me to work 24 -7? That doesn't

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make any sense. Do you lay next to the cannon?

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At least he cares so much that he's like, I have

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to fire this 24 -7. So somebody needs to come

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help me. I'm surprised he doesn't walk off the

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job. Well, yeah, but people die. So he's firing

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this cannon. Soon after this letter, an assistant

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was hired to provide some relief for Sergeant

00:17:44.259 --> 00:17:46.960
Maloney. Okay. Sergeant Maloney also sounds like

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a character from a show. Like because it's so

00:17:48.940 --> 00:17:50.980
close to Maloney. Or a cat's name. Sergeant Maloney.

00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.079
That's what we should name our next cat. Sergeant.

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Maloney. Alas, all the effort that went into

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firing the cannon was in vain. As mariners reported,

00:18:01.579 --> 00:18:05.180
it was inaudible from the water. A cannon. An

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eight -foot cannon. So, and, you know. I don't

00:18:08.730 --> 00:18:10.430
know if that means all the time or when it was

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stormy. But I remember us doing a history boo

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one time that talked about how high -pitched

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notes traveled better in air. Is that true? I

00:18:20.109 --> 00:18:23.730
thought it was low. Because we had the bi -tone.

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No, piano. They said there was someone playing

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piano. Oh, and they could hear it. No, I can't.

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Anyways, so he was fed up. Mr. Maloney. Yeah.

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Sergeant, excuse me. Okay, my job's actually

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useless and I'm tired. He resigned one year from

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when he started. Oh, that's crazy. That's a long

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time. I would not have lasted a year. And I don't

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know if the fog is all year round. No. Okay.

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No. I'm not used to being the support. So he

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retired. So that cannon was replaced with the

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West Coast. Oh, excuse me. It was the West Coast

00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:13.859
first fog signal. Oh. That cannon. Really? Yes.

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And it was replaced by a mechanically struck

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bell, which was installed near the lighthouse.

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You know how pissed he had to have been? Maloney

00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:25.380
had to have been like, you wait until I resign?

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It's like I've reached my absolute limit, and

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then you... His job was not to be there to tend

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to Bell. His job was to fire a cannon because

00:19:34.099 --> 00:19:36.339
he was an army sergeant. Like, this guy won't

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kill himself. But it wasn't even useful. That's

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the problem. If it were doing a damn good job,

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then it would be worth it. But it wasn't even

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worth it. Yep. Yep. So mechanically struck Bell.

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Kind of cool. So time goes by, 20 years, 1870s.

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It was clear that the fog signal in the lighthouse

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should be relocated to the southwestern tip of

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Point Bonita. where they would be at a lower

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elevation to better serve the mariners. The whole

00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.759
lighthouse or the fog signal? The fog signal

00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.000
and lighthouse should both be moved. Whoa. Because

00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.519
they were picked on this highest point, and I

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think this was the north side, so ships were

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coming from the north, but they were trying to

00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.619
get to the south to get into the cove. You want

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to know when to stop from, stop, yeah. And it

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was lower over there. So remember, though, this

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is a rock, so there's a couple interesting things.

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They noted that these were Chinese workers that

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did a lot of this work. I don't know how that's

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relevant, but they noted it. Against their will?

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I don't know. Railroad workers. Probably not.

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But there was a narrow path that was carved into

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the rocky point. What? Oh, sorry. The rocky point.

00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:47.940
Yeah, I know. Just crazy. And they made a landing

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platform for supplies. A railway. With a 45 degree

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incline, which is really steep. For anyone who

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wants to know, that's one for one slope. They

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made a railroad for this? To load supplies, to

00:21:02.009 --> 00:21:03.089
get them up. Do you think that that's normal?

00:21:03.690 --> 00:21:05.789
Well, we've seen it a couple times now. Oh, really?

00:21:05.990 --> 00:21:10.069
Yeah. I only remember when they would make kilns

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to bake bricks on site to use in Lighthouse,

00:21:15.269 --> 00:21:17.269
which I guess alone, if they're willing to go

00:21:17.269 --> 00:21:19.230
that crazy, it's not that crazy that they would

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build a railway for supplies. I mean, we even

00:21:22.390 --> 00:21:24.630
do that today. We don't make bricks on site,

00:21:24.730 --> 00:21:27.710
but we make concrete. If the project is big enough,

00:21:27.750 --> 00:21:30.450
they actually build a concrete plant on site

00:21:30.450 --> 00:21:33.009
to make concrete. Okay, I didn't know that. Pretty

00:21:33.009 --> 00:21:36.950
cool. Crazy. Anyways, so there's a 45 -degree

00:21:36.950 --> 00:21:40.390
angle on this railroad. That's wild. And a platform

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to a path. Can you imagine how hard it had to...

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I wish we had video. Emily's pumping her arms

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in a circular motion as if she is a locomotive.

00:22:02.420 --> 00:22:05.319
Bigger and bigger, because somehow... I was feeling,

00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:08.339
I was like, channel the locomotive. Channel it.

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These people are going to be like, how many drinks

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in are they? Zero. One coffee. Okay, so a steam

00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.940
-powered winch. pulled the cart that contained

00:22:18.940 --> 00:22:21.380
the supplies up this 45 -degree thing to the

00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:24.680
landing. What is it? A winch? Steam -powered

00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:29.400
winch. So a winch is a mechanically driven pulley.

00:22:29.539 --> 00:22:33.660
It rotates and it collects cable. I wouldn't

00:22:33.660 --> 00:22:36.140
say chain, but I'll say cable around a spool.

00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:39.440
So there can even be winches on trucks, like

00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:40.880
on pickup trucks. You can put a winch on the

00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:42.799
front. So if you get stuck, you can hook it to

00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:48.420
a tree. So it would let out? It would just pretty

00:22:48.420 --> 00:22:50.599
much go from point A to point B back and forth?

00:22:50.779 --> 00:22:53.200
Yeah. It would let out to let the cart down to

00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.920
the water and then pull it back up. And the pulling

00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:57.799
is where a lot of the work is because gravity

00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:01.099
helps with the other way around. But it would

00:23:01.099 --> 00:23:03.579
pull small cars filled with supplies and construction

00:23:03.579 --> 00:23:06.640
materials up the track. Cute. Very dangerous.

00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:10.079
And then, you know, during this construction,

00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:13.240
one section of the rocky face was impenetrable.

00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:15.720
It was just super hard. They just couldn't carve

00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.619
the path they wanted to pass. So they actually

00:23:18.619 --> 00:23:21.940
made a wooden walkway that skirted that portion

00:23:21.940 --> 00:23:27.279
as a cliff edge. Oh. Now, today, that's not there

00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:31.259
anymore because they tunneled through the rock.

00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:33.220
They got through the hard part. Which is where

00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:35.440
those Chinese gentlemen, I assume gentlemen,

00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:39.009
came in to. literally tunnel and it's still stable

00:23:39.009 --> 00:23:41.170
you can still walk through it so on your little

00:23:41.170 --> 00:23:44.269
your little hike down uh it's the doorway i talked

00:23:44.269 --> 00:23:47.410
about yeah opens to this tunnel i want to go

00:23:47.410 --> 00:23:49.470
so we'll look at it we got to look at a video

00:23:49.470 --> 00:23:52.910
but we'll do it at the end so there was a in

00:23:52.910 --> 00:23:57.069
1872 there was a steam fog siren that commenced

00:23:57.069 --> 00:24:00.130
operation which is pretty cool spooky um but

00:24:00.130 --> 00:24:02.809
two years later it was undermined by a landslide

00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:06.480
Oh, no. Landslide. This is so interesting. I

00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:08.180
feel like there's a lot of little lighthouse

00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:10.759
things that we haven't talked about, like landslides.

00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:12.720
I don't think we've encountered a landslide.

00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:16.220
No, I don't think so. So the point was cut down

00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:19.079
25 feet to provide a more secure site for the

00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:20.960
new signal. So they're going through this whole

00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.579
deal. Wow. It was deactivated two years later

00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:26.519
in 1874, resumed its operation in its new home.

00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:31.579
So they demoed and moved it because it wasn't

00:24:31.579 --> 00:24:34.119
that it collapsed, but being undercut meant the

00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:36.339
land below it fell away, and so it was going

00:24:36.339 --> 00:24:40.279
to probably collapse. So I just can't believe

00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:42.640
it. But because of the extra work and this little

00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.019
more distance that they had to go, they brought

00:24:45.019 --> 00:24:47.500
on a second and third assistant keepers in the

00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:52.059
1870s. So a full house, four people. Do they

00:24:52.059 --> 00:24:54.799
have families? Oh, cool. They do have families.

00:24:54.819 --> 00:24:56.579
There were several families out there. Look at

00:24:56.579 --> 00:24:58.079
that bridge. I didn't realize the bridge was

00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:00.759
so close to the lighthouse. It's so cute. It's

00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:02.339
close to the lighthouse, and we're going to see

00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:04.819
some really high -resolution new photos at the

00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:08.579
end from various travelers and bloggers. It's

00:25:08.579 --> 00:25:12.619
quite a precarious place to be. We'll see up

00:25:12.619 --> 00:25:16.299
close. I wouldn't have imagined landslides being

00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:19.240
a problem when everything's rocky, you know?

00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:25.019
Whatever they built on. So the new lighthouse.

00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:29.559
The second location, when in operation 1877,

00:25:29.859 --> 00:25:33.099
everything from the lower balcony up is the original

00:25:33.099 --> 00:25:37.859
1855 tower. Lower balcony, like up towards the

00:25:37.859 --> 00:25:39.599
top of the lighthouse? Okay. Yeah, so not the

00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:42.859
base, but everything else, which included the

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:44.700
Fresnel lens, so it's the same, the original

00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:48.599
still, and eagle -shaped rain spouts, which I

00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:51.079
could not find a picture of. No! But I bet they're

00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:54.369
still there. That's so cool. Yeah. I love it

00:25:54.369 --> 00:25:56.269
when they have beautiful architectural touches.

00:25:56.789 --> 00:26:02.569
Like, which lighthouse was it? So many. Maybe

00:26:02.569 --> 00:26:06.849
Nubble. But one of the lighthouses had miniature

00:26:06.849 --> 00:26:11.049
versions of it. Oh, yeah. On the rail. Little

00:26:11.049 --> 00:26:14.329
brass versions of the lighthouse. So good. Pretty

00:26:14.329 --> 00:26:16.410
cool. Thank you. Whoever was like, let's just

00:26:16.410 --> 00:26:18.329
spend the extra money to make it cool. Thank

00:26:18.329 --> 00:26:21.390
you for that. Just whatever. Just do it. No big

00:26:21.390 --> 00:26:25.920
deal. For real. Really cool. Eagles, that's awesome.

00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.039
Yeah, so the new lighthouse in this placement

00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.440
that you see, it's 124 feet above sea, so it's

00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:36.240
180 feet lower than the predecessor. That's crazy.

00:26:36.339 --> 00:26:42.440
So very different location, yeah. And even, that's

00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:48.339
still really high. So how tall is the new tower?

00:26:50.299 --> 00:26:52.980
Like, did they chop it? I think it was the same

00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:54.960
height. I think they just rebuilt. Because they

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:57.420
don't mention that it's different. Okay. It seems

00:26:57.420 --> 00:27:00.480
low, though. Yeah, it looks more squat than 60.

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:02.539
It might be lower than 60, but I actually don't

00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:04.500
have that figure right now. Yeah, but like...

00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:08.880
Let's see. Also, compared to the bridge and everything,

00:27:09.099 --> 00:27:18.240
maybe it is. You know, we've talked many times

00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.339
about the tower height. Yeah. Like how do you

00:27:21.339 --> 00:27:25.920
discern? Yeah. So, so it's a 33 foot tall tower,

00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.279
the focal plane. Oh. But the focal plane is 124

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.440
feet above sea level. Okay. So it's smaller and

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:35.279
it's, that makes sense. Cause as you're going

00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:36.880
to see it in these photos, it doesn't look very

00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:38.920
much taller than the structure next to it. Cute.

00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:47.059
Fun fact. John Briarcliff Brown was one of the

00:27:47.059 --> 00:27:48.700
keepers there. He went through several positions,

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:53.980
so he was promoted multiple times. He was serving

00:27:53.980 --> 00:27:55.940
as the head keeper when the new lighthouse was

00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:59.779
built. So over his career there, which was about

00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:03.799
30 years, Brown and his assistants were credited

00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.200
with saving over 40 lives. Oh, my. So several

00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.740
shipwrecks that I have some notes here. It looks

00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:15.380
very treacherous. There's one story. I won't

00:28:15.380 --> 00:28:18.660
go into detail, but two boats were being pulled

00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:21.880
by a tugboat into the bay. One of them had chlorine

00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.980
gas. Oh, my gosh. Which they said if that ship

00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:28.039
had wrecked, so they became disconnected from

00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:29.940
the tugboat somehow. Oh, can you imagine the

00:28:29.940 --> 00:28:32.099
fear? They said like 40 -foot swells were going

00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:35.339
on. I'd be like, I'm out of here. If that ship

00:28:35.339 --> 00:28:41.619
had wrecked. This is in 79? 19 or 18? Ignore

00:28:41.619 --> 00:28:43.819
that. I don't know when this was. But if that

00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:46.079
ship had wrecked, that gas would have been released,

00:28:46.220 --> 00:28:47.900
and they would have had to evacuate the entire

00:28:47.900 --> 00:28:50.440
city of San Francisco. I think it was like 700

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:54.259
,000 people. I think this is 79. Anyways, and

00:28:54.259 --> 00:28:56.960
then the other boat had beer and lumber, which

00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.339
it did hit the rocks, and the lumber and beer

00:28:59.339 --> 00:29:02.259
could not be saved. If we had to pick one, I

00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:05.160
suppose it's the beer that could go. But it is

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:08.599
a shame. Anyways, so shout out to Brown and his

00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:11.119
assistants. 40 Lives. Briarcliff. And there was

00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.559
a bunch of ship owners and merchants that got

00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:17.079
together, I think at his retirement. It's hard

00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:20.279
to say. But they got together at the Office of

00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.799
the Collectors of Customs. So like shipping folks.

00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:29.259
In 1896 and presented him with a gold -headed

00:29:29.259 --> 00:29:34.880
cane. Pretty sick. Awesome. Yeah. Gold -headed

00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:39.180
cane. The same year. What? Just like a knob.

00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:42.039
That's all I have. Okay. Gold -headed cane. Probably

00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:44.539
the grip is gold. Yeah. That's what my grandpa

00:29:44.539 --> 00:29:46.920
had. We have it here. It's pretty cool. That's

00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:52.200
cool. Wow. I was just thinking, I was hoping

00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:54.819
you were going to say gold eagle -headed cane.

00:29:55.740 --> 00:29:58.700
Yeah. You know, to match. California bear or

00:29:58.700 --> 00:30:03.200
eagles from the spouts or a lighthouse. Ow, that

00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.750
would be kind of painful. Assuming you had to

00:30:06.750 --> 00:30:08.690
use it. Yeah. If you're actually using it for

00:30:08.690 --> 00:30:11.829
assistance. Yeah. Which I bet he was. Probably.

00:30:12.250 --> 00:30:15.009
That's a pretty unique thing. That was the time

00:30:15.009 --> 00:30:17.470
in which everybody had canes. It was fashionable.

00:30:17.650 --> 00:30:19.849
Yeah. You're just like. Can you imagine getting

00:30:19.849 --> 00:30:22.009
a cane now? Like for our wedding present or something?

00:30:22.230 --> 00:30:25.130
I'd be like, why? We got you a cane. It's a fine

00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:31.730
mahogany. Fine mahogany. It's like, can I sell

00:30:31.730 --> 00:30:38.150
it? Here's another. Okay, sorry. What? I was

00:30:38.150 --> 00:30:42.569
just going to go in deeper. Go for it. No. It

00:30:42.569 --> 00:30:44.369
was more for the moment thing. What were you

00:30:44.369 --> 00:30:47.509
saying? There's another story of rescue I'd like

00:30:47.509 --> 00:30:51.490
to share. The day after Christmas, 1896. That

00:30:51.490 --> 00:30:54.789
was a bad time for a rescue. Why? Because you're

00:30:54.789 --> 00:30:57.490
all like. Tis the season. Because it's reality

00:30:57.490 --> 00:31:05.329
check. She gave me a very stern look. Okay. Keeper

00:31:05.329 --> 00:31:09.769
George D. Cobb with two Bs. Cobb Salad. Yep.

00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:13.029
That was his name after him. He was on duty amid

00:31:13.029 --> 00:31:16.509
rain squalls and gale wind when he saw a sailboat

00:31:16.509 --> 00:31:19.210
capsize off of the point, sending its three occupants

00:31:19.210 --> 00:31:21.910
into turbulent water. Oh, no. No doubt they were

00:31:21.910 --> 00:31:24.630
celebrating Christmas. I'm sure. Cobb reacted

00:31:24.630 --> 00:31:27.519
immediately. and soon he had successfully launched

00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:30.559
the station's rowboat, life -saving station here,

00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:33.319
by the way. I forgot to say that. Upon reaching

00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:35.099
the sailboat, because of all this, life -saving

00:31:35.099 --> 00:31:37.819
station, he found two unconscious men in the

00:31:37.819 --> 00:31:40.500
water. Oh my gosh. Which is impressive that he

00:31:40.500 --> 00:31:42.559
pulled them aboard, because they're blacked.

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:46.460
Yeah. Wait, they were... Unconscious. Unconscious,

00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:51.000
but not blacked, like drunken? Blacked out. Okay.

00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:55.730
Unconscious. Anyways. That is crazy. The third

00:31:55.730 --> 00:31:59.269
victim, cut and bleeding profusely, was soon

00:31:59.269 --> 00:32:02.869
found among some nearby rocks. Cobb succeeded

00:32:02.869 --> 00:32:06.150
in pulling him aboard as well. Among the rocks?

00:32:06.150 --> 00:32:10.250
This is crazy. Who are these men? Is this average

00:32:10.250 --> 00:32:12.750
or is this exceptional? I can't even stand up

00:32:12.750 --> 00:32:16.150
on a paddleboard. I've never even tried. This

00:32:16.150 --> 00:32:18.049
guy's pulling men onto a boat during a storm.

00:32:18.789 --> 00:32:22.309
Rocks! So all three of them survived. That's

00:32:22.309 --> 00:32:24.789
crazy. It's crazy. And he was awarded, Cobb was

00:32:24.789 --> 00:32:28.130
awarded the Life Saving Services Silver Medal

00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:31.609
for his heroic rescue. Love that. This accident

00:32:31.609 --> 00:32:34.369
further punctuated the need for a life -saving

00:32:34.369 --> 00:32:37.450
station. I mistimed this, sorry. On the northern

00:32:37.450 --> 00:32:40.029
side of the Golden Gate. And such a station was

00:32:40.029 --> 00:32:45.529
established at Point Bonita, 1899. Cool. So this

00:32:45.529 --> 00:32:48.930
was kind of a... So Cobb was in charge of the

00:32:48.930 --> 00:32:51.990
life -saving station. At the time, he was a keeper.

00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.640
Oh. It sounds like. And then they drove the need

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.500
for a licensing station. You may remember 1899,

00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:02.000
shortly after that was 1906. Only seven years.

00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:05.500
In history, it was pretty short. Do you remember

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:08.180
what happened that year? No. In San Francisco.

00:33:08.619 --> 00:33:11.380
Earthquake. Massive earthquake. Big fires. Big

00:33:11.380 --> 00:33:14.119
boy. Yeah. Right? Huge. Okay. Which we've talked

00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.660
about, and you should go back and listen to East

00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:20.940
Brother Light and also Alcatraz Island Light.

00:33:21.289 --> 00:33:23.170
Any other San Francisco I'm forgetting? No, that

00:33:23.170 --> 00:33:27.789
was it. So far. There's more to cover. There's

00:33:27.789 --> 00:33:29.589
lots written here, but because we talked about

00:33:29.589 --> 00:33:31.650
it, I just wanted to read the logbook entry.

00:33:31.849 --> 00:33:34.990
Oh, I love the logbook entries. Quote, terrible

00:33:34.990 --> 00:33:38.390
earthquake occurred at 5 .13 a .m., doing considerable

00:33:38.390 --> 00:33:42.269
damage to the assistant's quarters. Oh, no. Shaking

00:33:42.269 --> 00:33:44.369
the gable ends out, which I don't know what that

00:33:44.369 --> 00:33:47.069
means, but something not good, and cracking it

00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:50.299
so badly. that it was difficulty that the families

00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:52.279
were taken out without injury to their person.

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:55.160
I'm shocked by that. The chimneys were shaken

00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:58.039
to pieces. The keeper's quarters were given a

00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.980
terrible shaking. The doors were all jammed,

00:34:00.980 --> 00:34:02.920
so the keeper had to take his family out through

00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:05.000
the window. I didn't even think about that. The

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.180
frame of the building was... Shifted so much,

00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:10.639
they can't even get out. Yep. Whoa. Crazy. That

00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:14.469
is crazy. Can you imagine the earth? bucking.

00:34:14.469 --> 00:34:17.010
I can't imagine the chimney collapsing. I think

00:34:17.010 --> 00:34:18.690
of that as the strongest part of a house. Yeah.

00:34:18.869 --> 00:34:23.329
Wow. She gone. She gone. So, because it's California,

00:34:23.550 --> 00:34:26.349
two years later, a double dwelling was finished

00:34:26.349 --> 00:34:28.429
to replace that one. Two years? Where were they

00:34:28.429 --> 00:34:31.050
staying? I actually don't know where they stayed

00:34:31.050 --> 00:34:33.170
in that meantime. I bet they squished all together.

00:34:33.210 --> 00:34:35.230
I think it said they were all like, yeah, squished

00:34:35.230 --> 00:34:37.289
together in one of the structures. That stinks.

00:34:37.349 --> 00:34:39.610
For two years? And it's the whole family too.

00:34:39.670 --> 00:34:42.369
It's not just the guys. It's not just the bros

00:34:42.369 --> 00:34:47.159
hanging. Yep. Point Menina Lighthouse 1955 on

00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:49.260
the screen now, if you'd like to see that. So

00:34:49.260 --> 00:34:50.960
what is this little bridge for? It's just that

00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:55.139
the ground went down a little. So that's the

00:34:55.139 --> 00:34:59.079
formation of the island and you need to be able

00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:01.199
to walk across it. And if you absolutely die

00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:05.199
left or right, it's super steep. Oh. And that's

00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:07.139
actually going to come up right now. I guess

00:35:07.139 --> 00:35:08.300
I would have thought that they would just like

00:35:08.300 --> 00:35:12.230
install. This is probably. This is probably a

00:35:12.230 --> 00:35:14.550
lot bigger than I'm thinking it is. I'm like,

00:35:14.550 --> 00:35:17.030
why don't you just put stairs up and down? It

00:35:17.030 --> 00:35:18.969
probably doesn't make sense. Definitely over

00:35:18.969 --> 00:35:21.269
100 feet. You don't want to walk. No, no, no.

00:35:23.289 --> 00:35:26.690
You might die. Right, I just thought. And they're

00:35:26.690 --> 00:35:28.230
like, look at the bridge in the background. Well,

00:35:28.250 --> 00:35:30.789
because. Golden Gate Bridge. Yeah, in my head,

00:35:30.829 --> 00:35:32.690
that's what I'm thinking of is like there's water

00:35:32.690 --> 00:35:34.449
underneath. You have no choice but to build a

00:35:34.449 --> 00:35:36.530
bridge. I'm like, what? They have land right

00:35:36.530 --> 00:35:40.699
there. But now I see. It's to scale. It's not

00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:44.400
to scale in my eyes. So, I don't know. A new

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.960
keeper's residence was built, of course, on the

00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:51.380
eastern end of the suspension bridge, which...

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:53.139
Like, is it on the lighthouse side or is it on

00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:55.820
the non -lighthouse side? I'm just going to keep

00:35:55.820 --> 00:36:00.599
reading. This fly is fucking... I feel like I'm

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:06.039
taking crazy pills. He's going back around. So

00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.920
the new residence was where the former fog signal

00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:12.239
had stood. Oh. And that new residence was for

00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.360
the assistant keepers. Okay. Although the keeper

00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.079
assigned to the dwelling no longer had to make

00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:19.800
a lengthy journey to reach the lighthouse, he

00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:22.500
was faced with other challenges. Okay. Keeper

00:36:22.500 --> 00:36:25.059
Alexander Martin, what another good name. Very

00:36:25.059 --> 00:36:27.000
good. Who lived in the dwelling with his wife

00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.780
and young children, built harnesses to tether

00:36:29.780 --> 00:36:32.800
his children so that when they played outside,

00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:36.369
for when they played outside. The foresight was

00:36:36.369 --> 00:36:39.949
prudent as a daughter named Dorothy was once

00:36:39.949 --> 00:36:42.690
found dangling over a cliff in her harness. Oh

00:36:42.690 --> 00:36:45.690
my gosh. Unfortunately, no such restraint was

00:36:45.690 --> 00:36:48.190
provided for the family cat who fell to the water

00:36:48.190 --> 00:36:51.329
below. No. Why would they put that in there?

00:36:51.489 --> 00:36:55.730
Facts. Facts. Very sad history. Rest in peace.

00:36:55.769 --> 00:36:57.969
They didn't even name the cat. I'm sure they

00:36:57.969 --> 00:36:59.929
did, but they just don't mention it in here.

00:36:59.929 --> 00:37:02.690
History did not name the cat. Facts. Facts my

00:37:02.690 --> 00:37:09.679
ass. So just want to put that out there. Can't

00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:11.820
put a cat on a leash. If any of you didn't know

00:37:11.820 --> 00:37:15.079
that, you can't do it. And I learned that. Snap

00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.199
their necks. I thought, well, there you go crazy.

00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.639
Snap their necks. That's why you can't. Because

00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:24.840
a dog has all this neck muscle. So when it pulls,

00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:28.039
like the worst that happens is he's like, cats

00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:30.739
will snap their necks. That's why. their collars

00:37:30.739 --> 00:37:33.119
have safety releases. It's because if they get

00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:35.119
their collar caught on like a bush or something,

00:37:35.219 --> 00:37:37.199
they will kill themselves trying to get out.

00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:40.360
They have weak necks. So they're meant to be

00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:43.179
in the barn. Yeah, no collars, no leashes. No

00:37:43.179 --> 00:37:46.340
houses. No, but they're in here, no leashes.

00:37:47.820 --> 00:37:50.019
Yeah, you have to keep them inside. Anyways,

00:37:50.179 --> 00:37:54.320
December 11th of 1931, we're taking a jump just

00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.260
to another notable time. The fog signal. which,

00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.900
along with the light, had been electrified five

00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:04.059
years prior, was placed in operation for two

00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:06.820
and a half hours. This would not have been noteworthy

00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:10.000
if it had been on the account of fog, but it

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:13.739
was due to heavy fall of snow. Cute. Yeah, huge

00:38:13.739 --> 00:38:15.800
for California. Yeah. The Lighthouse Service

00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:18.320
Bulletin noted that this was believed to be the

00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:22.500
first time that snowfall in the bay had required

00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:25.340
the sounding of a fog signal. Amazing. I love

00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:26.980
that. Can you imagine how whimsical it would

00:38:26.980 --> 00:38:33.659
be? This fly. You got it, though. There hasn't

00:38:33.659 --> 00:38:36.820
been a fly all summer long. We've never had a

00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:40.780
fly bugging us down here. There was a radio beacon

00:38:40.780 --> 00:38:45.059
added. Bugging us? Hit the button. Hit it. Hit

00:38:45.059 --> 00:38:50.139
it. Yeah. What were you thinking? I would have

00:38:50.139 --> 00:38:56.840
gone with the, no. Oh. Third try's a charm. Anyways,

00:38:57.139 --> 00:39:00.539
Radio Beacon was added in 1938, which jibes with

00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:04.420
a lot of other history lighthouses. So the lighthouse,

00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:09.659
as we see it, could be accessed until 1940 by

00:39:09.659 --> 00:39:14.019
foot. Oh. So you could go see it. Erosion cut

00:39:14.019 --> 00:39:16.599
a gap in the trail near the lighthouse. Oh, shoot.

00:39:16.820 --> 00:39:20.239
And for a period of time, a breeches buoy was

00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.920
actually set up to permit access. What? Yeah.

00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:25.199
Which is insane. Can you imagine? You'd have

00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.420
to have balls of steel to be like, well, let's

00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:32.119
go see the lighthouse. And then it's like, climb

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:35.840
in, and I'm going to... I have a feeling regular

00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.179
civilians didn't use it. I think it was for maintenance

00:39:39.179 --> 00:39:41.199
and stuff. But even so, they're like, go out

00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:43.920
to the radio beacon. It's not working. You've

00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:45.840
got to put on these breeches that are built into

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.119
a buoy in case you fall to the ocean 100 feet

00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.519
below. Anyways, if you don't know what we're

00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:53.449
talking about, look up. my last episode where

00:39:53.449 --> 00:39:55.929
we talked about the Lyle gun, which was a cannon

00:39:55.929 --> 00:39:58.269
that shoots this weighted line. Anyways, and

00:39:58.269 --> 00:40:01.170
then you put on these pants and they, yeah, look

00:40:01.170 --> 00:40:04.309
it up. Breaches buoy. Look at it. Excellent story.

00:40:04.489 --> 00:40:06.050
Yep. Do you know what episode that would have

00:40:06.050 --> 00:40:13.650
been? Four, 81. 81. 81. Yeah. So. Vader abode.

00:40:13.869 --> 00:40:18.329
In 1954, a suspension bridge, which appropriately

00:40:18.329 --> 00:40:20.389
mirrored the style of the Golden Gate Bridge.

00:40:20.940 --> 00:40:23.920
was built over this chasm. Oh, I see. There you

00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:26.340
go. So this was all before this little bridge

00:40:26.340 --> 00:40:29.579
happened. Yes. And you see the erosion and whatnot.

00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.179
It was probably all relatively level. Yeah. And

00:40:32.179 --> 00:40:34.139
they might have even carved it to be a path.

00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.079
But then, you know, they're like, let's throw

00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:39.519
a bridge on it. So this bridge, I'm just going

00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:43.639
to say an aside. 1954 it was built. I forgot

00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:45.579
the contractor. I deleted their name, I think.

00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:51.989
It lasted until 2014. I don't know. 2024. Wait,

00:40:52.030 --> 00:40:54.289
what? It's gone? Well, it's still there, but

00:40:54.289 --> 00:40:56.349
it's in a point where it needs repair, where

00:40:56.349 --> 00:40:58.349
they're not letting people cross it anymore.

00:40:58.670 --> 00:41:01.449
Okay. Wow, that's a long time. That's almost

00:41:01.449 --> 00:41:06.750
like 75 years. It's over 75 years. But I'll say...

00:41:06.750 --> 00:41:13.809
Math is so hard. 70 years. I'll say some of these

00:41:13.809 --> 00:41:16.869
pictures I've seen... visiting pobo is kind of

00:41:16.869 --> 00:41:19.769
a thing to do like walking trails visiting california

00:41:19.769 --> 00:41:24.030
taking photos and so i hate to say that i'm from

00:41:24.030 --> 00:41:27.010
kansas it's a lot of people and i wonder if the

00:41:27.010 --> 00:41:31.010
bridge has been overly used and weighed from

00:41:31.010 --> 00:41:33.789
people they didn't expect so much foot traffic

00:41:33.789 --> 00:41:35.750
i mean it wasn't yeah it wasn't a tourist attraction

00:41:35.750 --> 00:41:40.019
yeah it became one so It's so cute. Like this

00:41:40.019 --> 00:41:42.280
tiny bridge with the Golden Gate Bridge in the

00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.940
background. It's like, aww. So cute. I forgot

00:41:45.940 --> 00:41:48.599
about this detail. So after the Federal Highway

00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:52.199
Administration report concluded that the rusting

00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.679
bridge posed a danger to visiting public, it

00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.239
was closed in 2010. Work on a new bridge of a

00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.980
similar design began in 2011. The new bridge

00:42:00.980 --> 00:42:02.739
allowed public access to the lighthouse to resume

00:42:02.739 --> 00:42:06.460
in 2012. The price tag for this work, which was...

00:42:06.809 --> 00:42:11.449
Built by Flatiron West of Benica. Okay. Benicia.

00:42:11.949 --> 00:42:15.030
B -E -N -I -C -I -A was around a million dollars.

00:42:15.329 --> 00:42:19.369
For a little bridge? Yes. Construction's insane.

00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:21.110
That's crazy. And that was back in the good old

00:42:21.110 --> 00:42:23.710
days when coffee still cost $5. Now it's $10.

00:42:23.989 --> 00:42:26.949
Anyways. $5 already. $4. You know what I'm saying.

00:42:27.050 --> 00:42:30.650
$3. All right, hear me out. That was 2012, and

00:42:30.650 --> 00:42:34.250
it's 2024 when it's no longer walkable? It needs

00:42:34.250 --> 00:42:37.659
repair? Could have been something. Weather happened.

00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:40.760
But the last bridge lasted 60 years, we'll say.

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.639
Yeah, a million -dollar bridge, and it only lasts

00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:45.420
a little over a decade. Yeah, let's do better.

00:42:45.619 --> 00:42:47.639
That doesn't make any sense. Flatiron West. I'd

00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:49.260
be upset with that. I'd be like, where'd my money

00:42:49.260 --> 00:42:53.840
go? Yeah. Out the window. That's where. Out the

00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.039
window. He didn't even know. So here we are in

00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:59.820
1979. The two barges I told you about, the Golden

00:42:59.820 --> 00:43:01.780
Gate. The one that was carrying the beer was

00:43:01.780 --> 00:43:07.050
called the Kona, K -O -N -A. Anyways, so Point

00:43:07.050 --> 00:43:09.929
Bonita is interesting. It was the last manned

00:43:09.929 --> 00:43:13.650
lighthouse on the California coast. Wow. Mark

00:43:13.650 --> 00:43:18.869
Van Buskirk, the last head keeper, who at the

00:43:18.869 --> 00:43:22.050
time was living on the Coast Guard housing. So

00:43:22.050 --> 00:43:24.530
the Coast Guard took over. Yeah. Of course, always

00:43:24.530 --> 00:43:27.929
same history. Constructed, it was at the former

00:43:27.929 --> 00:43:32.329
life -saving station. He left in 1981. Whoa.

00:43:32.469 --> 00:43:35.679
Yeah, that is really late. And he left a quote.

00:43:35.739 --> 00:43:37.739
I think he was interviewed. He said, people see

00:43:37.739 --> 00:43:39.599
the lighthouse and the waves breaking around

00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:42.340
the rocks and the sunset, and they think, I wish

00:43:42.340 --> 00:43:44.900
I was stationed out there. Then they get stationed

00:43:44.900 --> 00:43:48.380
out here, and it's a different story. There's

00:43:48.380 --> 00:43:52.699
not a whole lot to do. Yeah. Coast Guardsmen.

00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.780
They said, we maintain the grounds, make sure

00:43:54.780 --> 00:43:57.579
the grass is mowed, and watch the fog. Grass?

00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.480
What grass? There's grass somewhere. Oh, I want

00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:01.920
to see a modern picture of this place. Also,

00:44:01.940 --> 00:44:03.860
the life -saving station is not pictured. I think

00:44:03.860 --> 00:44:05.780
that's where they were living. Oh, I see. So

00:44:05.780 --> 00:44:07.340
not quite at this location. They had to make

00:44:07.340 --> 00:44:10.460
their way up here for stuff. And they said this

00:44:10.460 --> 00:44:12.199
is a station where you have to find work to do.

00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:17.079
Keep yourself busy. Surf. It's now been adopted,

00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:19.679
and it's one of my big sources today, for both

00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:22.719
images and content by the Golden Gate National

00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:25.340
Recreation Area. So it's within the National

00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:28.699
Park Service domain. And the Coast Guard continues

00:44:28.699 --> 00:44:31.199
to maintain the light and fog signal, which is

00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:34.039
why I believe that you can't climb it because

00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:37.300
it's military. You can go there. You can actually

00:44:37.300 --> 00:44:40.460
go inside that dwelling that's there. You just

00:44:40.460 --> 00:44:42.579
can't climb the tower itself, which with this

00:44:42.579 --> 00:44:44.659
many people around, it's probably for the best.

00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:49.360
But yeah, August of 2024, so a year ago, the

00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:51.980
Park Service closed the suspension bridge for

00:44:51.980 --> 00:44:56.559
repairs. I hope it opens again. Over the life

00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:00.039
of Point Bonita or Pabot, it's had four light

00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:02.719
signatures. I couldn't find all four. But the

00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:06.340
first was constant, just steady. Yeah. Second

00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:09.679
order. And then the last, which is still current,

00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.199
is three seconds on, one second off. Okay. So

00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:15.900
pretty active. You know, some lighthousees you

00:45:15.900 --> 00:45:19.199
have to kind of wait for a while to see the pattern.

00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:22.039
So it's kind of fun. But it still has its lens

00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.079
up there? It does. That's pretty nice. And I'll

00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:27.400
show you some images now. So also I just found

00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:29.679
this in the National Park Service image. I wanted

00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:31.460
to show this. How beautiful is this home? Look

00:45:31.460 --> 00:45:34.900
at that. This was built for the steam siren fog

00:45:34.900 --> 00:45:39.320
signal. What? 1874 this house was built. Structure

00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:40.860
was converted to a residence for the lighthouse

00:45:40.860 --> 00:45:43.059
keeper in 1906. Look at all the fun windows.

00:45:43.260 --> 00:45:46.139
It's beautiful. I don't even know how to describe

00:45:46.139 --> 00:45:49.380
it. If you're watching YouTube. Take a look.

00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:53.199
There's a picture of the signal today. Pretty.

00:45:53.539 --> 00:45:55.360
The shot of the bridge, the suspension bridge.

00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:59.400
That's crazy. Here's some visitor photos. I have

00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.340
all these credited in our sources if you're interested

00:46:01.340 --> 00:46:03.119
in seeing more from these folks. That's a really

00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:06.000
nice picture. Yeah. This is two different photos

00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.639
clearly, but you can see there's lots of green

00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.300
still growing. Yeah. That is a really sketchy

00:46:10.300 --> 00:46:12.780
piece of rock. That used to be the walking platform.

00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:15.460
Yeah, I wouldn't go on that. The bridge, much

00:46:15.460 --> 00:46:19.760
better. Looks very sturdy. It's a gal. I forget

00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:21.880
her name, but she visited. Took lots of pictures.

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.719
Some of these pictures are hers. Does she have

00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:27.460
a blog? I couldn't really tell. I couldn't get

00:46:27.460 --> 00:46:30.280
a consistent knowledge out of it. But this is

00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:32.699
the pathway that leads to the bridge. And then

00:46:32.699 --> 00:46:34.880
back behind us in view is the tunnel that leads

00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.400
to this pathway. Pretty cool. Honestly, lots

00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:39.360
of good things to see. Oh, and those sources

00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:42.079
I'll leave off screen because they're from Vader

00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.679
Abode. Sorry. Forgot to update that. And we're

00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:49.150
not going to show it. I don't think. The tunnel?

00:46:49.590 --> 00:46:51.429
Yeah, I think we're going to look at the tunnel

00:46:51.429 --> 00:46:55.590
on our computer. Yeah, you should just go. That's

00:46:55.590 --> 00:46:58.610
how you get people going. Don't make them feel

00:46:58.610 --> 00:47:00.389
like they've already seen it all before they

00:47:00.389 --> 00:47:02.730
go. You've got to be looking forward to something

00:47:02.730 --> 00:47:06.010
specific. Something Pacific? Something Pacific.

00:47:06.570 --> 00:47:10.409
I would definitely go. See that? Vince, if we're

00:47:10.409 --> 00:47:12.570
talking about hikes, that's something I would

00:47:12.570 --> 00:47:15.750
do. Yeah, look at this. So now we're off screen,

00:47:15.829 --> 00:47:18.019
folks. Sorry. But we're looking at. It's creepy.

00:47:18.019 --> 00:47:21.280
What the tunnel looks like. No. I don't want

00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.360
it. It's so cool. I would run through. There's

00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:26.840
a bunch of people, so it's not going to be. Well,

00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:28.340
like that's going to stop it from caving in?

00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:31.000
Well, it's going to be less scary. Ghosts? Look

00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:33.679
at that. As Emily would say, creepy, deepy. Creepy,

00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:38.340
deepy. So, well -traveled trail. I feel that

00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:41.380
it's unfortunate the bridge is closed. I do hope

00:47:41.380 --> 00:47:43.880
that they reopen it. Yes. But I didn't hear anything

00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:46.500
about that. Has the lighthouse always been white?

00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:49.800
Was black everything? White was black. You know,

00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:54.480
I didn't see day marks discussed in this. There

00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:56.780
was one article that talked about what a day

00:47:56.780 --> 00:48:00.420
mark was. Okay. I think it's always been the

00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:02.380
same. I'll be honest with you. It looked like

00:48:02.380 --> 00:48:06.380
it in the photos. Yeah. So I put this one together

00:48:06.380 --> 00:48:09.659
pretty quick. I had another grand idea that I

00:48:09.659 --> 00:48:13.719
didn't have time to do justice to. Sorry for

00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:15.820
everyone. It happens. But it will come. I enjoyed

00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:18.320
that. When you said Point Bonita, I wouldn't

00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:21.480
have thought San Francisco. Point Bonita. What

00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.380
comes to mind? What do you think? Like Spain?

00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:27.739
I was kind of thinking like Owl's Head was kind

00:48:27.739 --> 00:48:31.380
of what popped up in my brain. But anyway. I'd

00:48:31.380 --> 00:48:33.420
love to go. All right. Anything else to add before

00:48:33.420 --> 00:48:36.079
we sign off for the day? Nope. Thanks, everybody.

00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.340
Oh, we got a nice message from... I didn't write

00:48:39.340 --> 00:48:41.599
down her name. But she was just saying that she

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:45.219
really loved our podcast. And she and her husband,

00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:47.639
I think, really enjoy listening to us. And they're

00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:50.500
excited for us to get married. Really nice. So

00:48:50.500 --> 00:48:54.340
am I doing the outro? Go for it. Okay. Well,

00:48:54.340 --> 00:49:02.219
just thank you for being here. And we'll catch

00:49:02.219 --> 00:49:04.360
you next time on The Lighthouse.