tallship on Nostr: Yes! Where Western Avenue ends at the cliffs. The area was taken over by Fort ...
Yes! Where Western Avenue ends at the cliffs.
The area was taken over by Fort MacArthur (I think I spelled that right), and huge guns with barrels like 40' long were installed all over the hills. The resort was bulldozed so the landmark of the resort (which was famous in Japan) was no longer a navigational marker, and everyone there was relocated to internment camps.
About 25 or 30 years ago, we unsuccessfully petitioned the State of California to have the cove itself designated as an underwater park, but they granted us permission to mount a bronze plaque in about 15' of water near the hot water vents from the springs that used to naturally heat the huge salt water pool (not Olympic sized, but pretty big). There's a photo collection of the area...
in the 19th Century, trappers would load Sea Otter pelts onto ships bound for Boston (Richard Henry Dana - Four Years Before the Mast), later after the gold rush when that industry completely died out, first generation American Citizens decended from Japanese immigrants who once farmed the reefs for shellfish bought the property and built a posh resort. WWII changed the entire landscape below on the shore as well as the hills above.
The area was taken over by Fort MacArthur (I think I spelled that right), and huge guns with barrels like 40' long were installed all over the hills. The resort was bulldozed so the landmark of the resort (which was famous in Japan) was no longer a navigational marker, and everyone there was relocated to internment camps.
About 25 or 30 years ago, we unsuccessfully petitioned the State of California to have the cove itself designated as an underwater park, but they granted us permission to mount a bronze plaque in about 15' of water near the hot water vents from the springs that used to naturally heat the huge salt water pool (not Olympic sized, but pretty big). There's a photo collection of the area...
in the 19th Century, trappers would load Sea Otter pelts onto ships bound for Boston (Richard Henry Dana - Four Years Before the Mast), later after the gold rush when that industry completely died out, first generation American Citizens decended from Japanese immigrants who once farmed the reefs for shellfish bought the property and built a posh resort. WWII changed the entire landscape below on the shore as well as the hills above.