BGuthrie Photos: CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area (South Side)

CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area (South Side):

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1. GGNRAS_041103_01.JPG: Many of the hills around the bay were positions used for protective artillery batteries in an age when those could actually protect the port from foreign ships. They became obsolete once bombers and missiles came into their own. Battery East: These gun emplacements were part of a 3/4-mile line of earthworks guarding the Bay entrance. Battery East was started in 1870 but lack of funds halted construction in 1876. Only five of the proposed sixteen guns were mounted here. Ammunition and supplies for the guns were stored in underground magazines. In the late 1890's, hidden firepower in scattered, new concrete harbor defense batteries began to replace these earthen works and the vulnerable masonry forts such as Fort Point.
2. GGNRAS_041103_28.JPG: These are some of the more modern defenses mounted above the Golden Gate.
3. GGNRAS_041103_46.JPG: The Era of Earthworks Batteries; Battery East Armored vessels and rifled artillery developed during the Civil War could destroy brick forts like Fort Point. As a consequence, these walled forts were replaced by earthen gun emplacements with underground ammunition magazines like Battery East. These earthworks batteries were inexpensive, easy to construct, and resistant to attack, but their era was short-lived. More powerful artillery came on line in the 1890's, necessitating heavy-duty concrete mounting platforms. Battery East had 16 gun and four mortar emplacements.
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2004 photos: Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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