WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.500 Hi everyone, I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:15.179 listening to the lighthouse lowdown You're gonna 00:00:15.179 --> 00:00:17.140 push it again, yeah, I was gonna turn it off 00:00:17.140 --> 00:00:19.760 like enough of that you can't cut that now You 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:21.859 can't let it roll. I'm not used to being the 00:00:21.859 --> 00:00:24.579 button presser. Here's what's fun First off. 00:00:24.620 --> 00:00:28.530 Hi everyone. Welcome to 85 episode 85 You got 00:00:28.530 --> 00:00:30.410 a five number. That's always satisfying. I know. 00:00:30.469 --> 00:00:32.549 I don't think I've had one in a while. Anyways, 00:00:32.710 --> 00:00:36.090 here's what's fun. When we record, we're a little 00:00:36.090 --> 00:00:40.170 bit like radio jockeys or whatever, disc jockeys, 00:00:40.250 --> 00:00:43.409 radio people, because we listen to the sound 00:00:43.409 --> 00:00:46.689 playing. 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But YouTube, 00:01:58.890 --> 00:02:01.150 he has like a premium account, I guess. So, OK, 00:02:01.269 --> 00:02:03.989 no ads. And I was like, well, we also don't do 00:02:03.989 --> 00:02:08.120 ads. So I can understand the appeal of. sometimes 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.580 watching like people do the podcast, but I, I 00:02:12.580 --> 00:02:16.280 don't know. I feel more calm listening and my 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.159 eyes don't also have to be activated, you know? 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.180 Yeah. That's yeah. I like podcasts for that reason 00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:25.520 where it's like you're listening and that's the 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.479 best part is like, I don't have to also be staring 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:31.400 at a screen to enjoy it. Right. Like a movie. 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.300 I'm almost always driving. I watched zero TV. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.240 Movies are great. So I've got to let everyone 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.219 down. There's no history buoy today. That's okay. 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:46.039 I had one started. I know what it is still, but 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.340 I couldn't find the source material, and so I 00:02:48.340 --> 00:02:50.960 don't want to just like half do it. I appreciate 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:55.360 that. No buoy. I used to have a lot more buoys 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.199 to skip to catch up to me. Well, we're doing 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.240 good. So let's just get started. Okay. I had 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:06.409 this lighthouse on my list for a long time. My 00:03:06.409 --> 00:03:09.090 list is much shorter than Emily's list. It's 00:03:09.090 --> 00:03:11.469 huge. But I'm supposed to check her list, and 00:03:11.469 --> 00:03:13.550 I didn't until I was already like halfway through 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:16.569 the research. That's okay. And so I poached one. 00:03:16.849 --> 00:03:21.110 Great minds think alike. Welcome. What is it? 00:03:21.229 --> 00:03:26.069 To Point Bonita. Bonita. Yes. Okay, I don't know 00:03:26.069 --> 00:03:29.139 anything about it. Cool. That's perfect. That's 00:03:29.139 --> 00:03:30.919 what we do here. Was it a listener lighthouse 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:33.939 or no? No, it didn't have any credits. I wonder 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:38.180 how I put that on my list. So Point Bonita Lighthouse, 00:03:38.379 --> 00:03:41.599 the reason it was on my list, it was the second 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.620 batch of eight lighthouses added to the state 00:03:44.620 --> 00:03:48.340 of California. Oh, yes. And you've covered one 00:03:48.340 --> 00:03:50.800 of them at least. Another one that was on our 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.740 list and you had already covered was Hereford. 00:03:54.460 --> 00:03:58.050 No, you covered. Oh, it was on your list also. 00:03:58.270 --> 00:04:00.789 Oh, was it? Yeah. Oh. Because it's the same. 00:04:00.849 --> 00:04:03.110 I forget. I wish I'd, this is the time when I 00:04:03.110 --> 00:04:04.610 should say, because I know, but I don't know. 00:04:04.729 --> 00:04:07.490 Oh. That architecture. Yeah, yeah. They applied 00:04:07.490 --> 00:04:09.770 it to all those lighthouses. The first four were 00:04:09.770 --> 00:04:12.330 carried over. East to west coast. Yeah, stick. 00:04:12.469 --> 00:04:14.289 That sounds right. Stick something. Stick style. 00:04:14.530 --> 00:04:17.029 Stick. Stick. And then, you know, Victorian, 00:04:17.250 --> 00:04:19.470 Gothic. Yeah. Anyway, so there's some architecture 00:04:19.470 --> 00:04:22.329 that's shared between those. But there's a couple. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.220 And Alcatraz Island is really close to this. 00:04:27.259 --> 00:04:28.860 It's in the San Francisco Bay. So we're going 00:04:28.860 --> 00:04:30.899 to talk about that first. Okay, great. So here's 00:04:30.899 --> 00:04:35.160 a little look at the cover. I just made it. And 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.220 we're going to use the link for Vader Abode Lite 00:04:38.220 --> 00:04:40.220 because that's the last one I looked at on Google 00:04:40.220 --> 00:04:42.939 Maps. So we're going to go from Sweden. We're 00:04:42.939 --> 00:04:45.439 going to just show you Sweden to San Francisco. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:46.879 It's just like that. Boom, just pop on over. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.399 At least you know where it is. I would be like, 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.879 where is it? San Francisco. And then it's over 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.439 here. I would have to type it in. No chance. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:56.699 I actually did test this out like a minute ago 00:04:56.699 --> 00:04:59.860 to see if I could find it. And then I just left 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:02.480 the Vaderobold. Yeah, it just happened that way. 00:05:02.579 --> 00:05:04.600 There was a lot going on. Anyways, that's a Sweden 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.480 lighthouse that I covered last. If you're interested 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.800 in checking that out. Yeah, Vaderobold. Starts 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.720 with a V. Here's San Francisco. And here we have 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.439 the Golden Gate Bridge. Oh, look at that. That's 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:20.040 cool. Google does this like 360 thing I've never 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:23.879 seen before. Brand new. Alcatraz and East Brother 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:26.660 Island is a little bit north. Yes, of course. 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:30.519 Where's brother? Excuse me. Keep going. It's 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.139 past the little nub. Or no. Yeah. Zoom in. There 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:38.779 it is. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. You can't see 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:42.360 pink on blue. I'm too far from the screen. My 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.399 glasses are not made for this. Okay, so anyways, 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.259 here we're in San Francisco, and I'll read from 00:05:48.259 --> 00:05:51.759 my notes, but a couple things, just kind of fun 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:53.240 facts that don't really fit in anywhere else. 00:05:53.420 --> 00:05:55.899 Yeah, got to start with them. Obviously, it's 00:05:55.899 --> 00:05:58.560 near the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a long 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.120 history in San Francisco. It's worth looking 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.759 up on its own. It's known as the hidden gem of 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.439 San Francisco because it's literally hidden behind 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.220 a rock. Point Bonita? Point Bonita. That's not 00:06:09.220 --> 00:06:10.959 very good for a lighthouse. It's really pretty. 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:14.259 It's good. Okay. There's a purpose. But not for 00:06:14.259 --> 00:06:17.180 like seeing it from the city of San Francisco. 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:18.920 Oh, I see what you're saying. You got to go out 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.540 there. And then I have a gap on here. Open Sunday 00:06:22.540 --> 00:06:24.720 and Monday. I'm actually not sure. There's been 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.959 a lot of changes. Yeah. But keep in mind as we 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.459 listen, you can visit. Right now, currently, 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.360 there's a bridge that typically you would cross 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.500 that's closed for repairs. So we'll come back 00:06:36.500 --> 00:06:37.980 to that. It's hard to get to. Yeah. So really 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:40.079 at this moment, I can't recommend going there. 00:06:40.930 --> 00:06:42.970 But it's been great to visit. It looks great 00:06:42.970 --> 00:06:45.250 to visit again. So, of course, it's busy because 00:06:45.250 --> 00:06:49.509 it's in California. But, hey, to visit it, there's 00:06:49.509 --> 00:06:52.889 a walk down a trail. It's about a mile. You have 00:06:52.889 --> 00:06:55.490 to get to the island. There's a door that is 00:06:55.490 --> 00:06:58.069 often closed. The door is closed because they're 00:06:58.069 --> 00:07:01.329 not open. If it's open, the door goes through 00:07:01.329 --> 00:07:04.329 a tunnel. And then maybe at the end we can watch 00:07:04.329 --> 00:07:06.310 a little YouTube video. Cool. Just you and I. 00:07:07.019 --> 00:07:09.879 I like it when they make getting there an adventure 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.759 too. There's a tunnel. There's a cliff side walking 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.819 path with railing and such. And then there's 00:07:16.819 --> 00:07:19.680 a bridge that was built in the 50s, I think, 00:07:19.699 --> 00:07:23.120 the last bridge, the latest of the bridges, 1950s, 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.279 that resembles the Golden Gate Bridge in style. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.519 Cute. So if I'm going to flash back to our slides, 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:32.800 you're going to see that kind of that cable support 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.220 style. Yeah. So that's the bridge. That's cute. 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.319 What else do I want to say about that? Do you 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:41.480 have to do all that just to get there? Like cliffside 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.600 walkway? Yeah, it's one mile total in walking. 00:07:47.060 --> 00:07:49.319 Climbing is not open to the public. I don't think 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.459 it ever actually has been. Is it because the 00:07:51.459 --> 00:07:53.160 lens is still in there? The lens is still there. 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.759 Second order. Pretty cool. Jealous. Also, last 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:58.620 little fun fact that doesn't really fit in the 00:07:58.620 --> 00:08:02.319 history here. Someone referred to it as pobo. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.120 P -O -B -O. Point Bonita. Oh my gosh. So I'm 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:08.540 going to call it Pobo sometimes because I like 00:08:08.540 --> 00:08:10.439 that. You know the people who actually live there 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:14.139 are like, no. No, it's not Pobo. Pobo. You have 00:08:14.139 --> 00:08:16.439 to say the whole thing. Point Bonita Lighthouse. 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.319 Or maybe that's like a fond term for it. Could 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.019 be an endearment. Like by the locals. Yeah. You 00:08:21.019 --> 00:08:24.120 know. Surf's up or whatever. I don't even know. 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:27.160 I have no idea if like you can surf in the San 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.740 Francisco area. No idea. Probably. There's an 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:33.480 ocean. There is water. So I'm going to bring 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.779 up, here's an image, the original Point Bonita 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:40.559 Lighthouse. That reminds me of Split Rock, just 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.120 how it's placed. That's pretty neat. Very sheer 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.360 cliff going on. Humongous. How high up is that? 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.059 Sorry, you can just continue on your notes. That's 00:08:52.059 --> 00:08:56.980 okay. It was a 60 -foot conical brick tower situated 00:08:56.980 --> 00:09:02.070 260 feet above the sea. Whoa. Yeah. 260 feet. 00:09:02.110 --> 00:09:04.529 Pretty high. Well, because like looking at this 00:09:04.529 --> 00:09:07.049 photo that you have pulled up, it looks very 00:09:07.049 --> 00:09:10.950 short. 60 feet. That's six stories tall. Yeah. 00:09:11.370 --> 00:09:16.070 It's a tall second order Fresnel lens. I heard 00:09:16.070 --> 00:09:18.190 one of the guys who has made a video that I watched 00:09:18.190 --> 00:09:21.730 and they said a Fresnel lens or Fresnel. I think 00:09:21.730 --> 00:09:23.909 he said Fresnel. And I was like, no. Like, what 00:09:23.909 --> 00:09:26.509 an American. Am I right? Now that we know one 00:09:26.509 --> 00:09:29.389 thing, I'm an expert, of course. Hey, we can 00:09:29.389 --> 00:09:32.850 be annoyed. It took a long time for us to get 00:09:32.850 --> 00:09:34.210 that correct. Yeah, we asked that question. We 00:09:34.210 --> 00:09:36.529 asked that question. How is it pronounced? So 00:09:36.529 --> 00:09:41.549 Fresnel. So the original tower, we're going to 00:09:41.549 --> 00:09:43.789 talk about, it actually wasn't a good idea of 00:09:43.789 --> 00:09:46.649 where it was put. And you can probably deduce 00:09:46.649 --> 00:09:49.649 why. Well, you know. Too high? Funny enough, 00:09:49.730 --> 00:09:52.309 too high. Oh. So yeah, I'm just going to, well, 00:09:52.389 --> 00:09:54.690 I might have to skip this later, but the original 00:09:54.690 --> 00:09:56.309 lighthouse, the first one which we're viewing, 00:09:56.490 --> 00:09:59.289 60 foot conical brick tower, 260 feet over the 00:09:59.289 --> 00:10:02.470 sea. It's a one and a half story brick and stone 00:10:02.470 --> 00:10:05.610 cottage that went with it. Yeah. That was built 00:10:05.610 --> 00:10:07.490 near the tower. It's not shown in this image 00:10:07.490 --> 00:10:09.830 though. Is it like tucked behind there or something? 00:10:10.009 --> 00:10:12.309 Don't know. It's not there anymore. Oh, that's 00:10:12.309 --> 00:10:16.450 a shame. Yeah, and the first head keeper lit 00:10:16.450 --> 00:10:19.629 the lamp so that the lighting was May 2nd of 00:10:19.629 --> 00:10:24.110 1855. All right. And his name was Edward Colston. 00:10:24.629 --> 00:10:29.590 So kind of cool. First keeper. Okay. So in the 00:10:29.590 --> 00:10:35.610 1850s, there was the gold rush, the 49ers, right? 00:10:35.769 --> 00:10:39.049 Yeah. She's smiling so big. The gold rush. The 00:10:39.049 --> 00:10:41.389 gold rush. You know the gold rush when we all 00:10:41.389 --> 00:10:44.049 went up to California. I don't know what accent 00:10:44.049 --> 00:10:47.309 that is. All right, 1849 was, right, the big 00:10:47.309 --> 00:10:50.690 pop. So in the 1850s, California exploded. There 00:10:50.690 --> 00:10:55.289 was a growth in San Francisco from 20 ,000 was 00:10:55.289 --> 00:10:58.629 the ending population. I think it was like 5 00:10:58.629 --> 00:11:00.570 ,000 people. We don't talk about the gold rush 00:11:00.570 --> 00:11:02.789 very often. It's come up a couple times in this 00:11:02.789 --> 00:11:06.330 California. Yeah. Because trade made the area 00:11:06.330 --> 00:11:08.450 boom. And there was a couple lighthouses already. 00:11:09.529 --> 00:11:14.029 Lighthouses, so 1850s. So there was already lighthouses 00:11:14.029 --> 00:11:17.470 in the area. Notably, Alcatraz Island and Fort 00:11:17.470 --> 00:11:20.490 Point were in those first batch of eight lighthouses 00:11:20.490 --> 00:11:22.309 that were contracted to be built on the West 00:11:22.309 --> 00:11:25.309 Coast, the wet coast. It is wet. Are they saying 00:11:25.309 --> 00:11:30.970 white coast? Also, if you feel something on you, 00:11:30.990 --> 00:11:33.309 it's because there's a fly just absolutely pestering 00:11:33.309 --> 00:11:35.389 you. I thought that was just schizophrenia coming 00:11:35.389 --> 00:11:38.830 in slowly. It's all over you. I can feel it. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.399 Must be stinky. Anyways. So the second batch 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.879 of eight lighthouses was this contract that included 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:50.960 Point Bonita or Pobo. Pobo. So it's because when 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:55.980 we looked at the map, you know, the bay is obviously 00:11:55.980 --> 00:11:58.419 it's a, you know, C shape with an opening. Yeah. 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:00.539 Golden Gate Bridge. Bridge is the opening. Very 00:12:00.539 --> 00:12:03.059 interesting how that happened too. What? Like 00:12:03.059 --> 00:12:06.639 just a skinny little channel and then this big. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:11.009 Yeah. Bay. And the, I actually don't know that 00:12:11.009 --> 00:12:13.129 that's entirely, I'm sounding dumb, I'm sure, 00:12:13.149 --> 00:12:16.509 if there was any man control to how that worked. 00:12:17.529 --> 00:12:22.250 Probably not. Anyways, California. And so Pobo 00:12:22.250 --> 00:12:28.250 was put out on kind of the tip of the land on 00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:30.309 the north side. So the north side comes down, 00:12:30.450 --> 00:12:33.070 south side comes up. The north side has this 00:12:33.070 --> 00:12:34.909 tip out here. So it was like on the outside? 00:12:35.169 --> 00:12:37.450 On the outside, on the southern face, southern 00:12:37.450 --> 00:12:40.610 and western face towards the water. So there 00:12:40.610 --> 00:12:44.769 was another place discussed. Originally it was 00:12:44.769 --> 00:12:48.409 called Point Lobos, which is another area. It's 00:12:48.409 --> 00:12:50.029 on the south side of the entrance of the Golden 00:12:50.029 --> 00:12:53.509 Gate. But the locals said that actually approaching 00:12:53.509 --> 00:12:56.830 Pobo Bonita would be better because the water 00:12:56.830 --> 00:12:59.340 was deeper there. You could come like... 150 00:12:59.340 --> 00:13:01.980 feet and in, you could hug this thing and then 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:05.340 come into the bay. Yeah, safe to get close. Right, 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.240 right. So you could go further out to sea, you 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.480 could see the other lights and come in, or it 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:12.379 would be nice to have another navigation point. 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:16.120 Yeah. So that's where Pobo came from, the need 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.720 for it. So it was $25 ,000 from Congress, which... 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.000 Oh, that's a lot, $1850. I was going to say, 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:24.740 it's almost never enough money, but this time 00:13:24.740 --> 00:13:27.720 I guess California was golden. Well, we covered. 00:13:29.149 --> 00:13:32.309 That was March 3rd of 1853. Congress allocated 00:13:32.309 --> 00:13:35.090 those funds. And this is the time of the Lighthouse 00:13:35.090 --> 00:13:39.269 Board in the United States. Fresh or? I don't 00:13:39.269 --> 00:13:41.350 know. Okay, I can't remember the dates. Yeah, 00:13:41.370 --> 00:13:43.370 I can't recall. This is early on, I think, when 00:13:43.370 --> 00:13:47.909 westward expansion became part of the Lighthouse 00:13:47.909 --> 00:13:53.309 Board's concerns, I think was these years. I 00:13:53.309 --> 00:13:54.549 mean, it was really when they started building 00:13:54.549 --> 00:13:58.769 that program out there. But it was kind of an 00:13:58.769 --> 00:14:01.029 expensive mistake to choose the point that they 00:14:01.029 --> 00:14:02.370 chose, which is what we talked about. It was 00:14:02.370 --> 00:14:06.070 too high. They planned actually for the lighthouse 00:14:06.070 --> 00:14:09.330 to sit on the highest hill on Punta Bonita. That's 00:14:09.330 --> 00:14:13.049 not always better. It's not. There is a time 00:14:13.049 --> 00:14:15.490 when, which what most people probably think, 00:14:15.570 --> 00:14:17.750 oh yeah, put the light as high as you can. It'll 00:14:17.750 --> 00:14:20.830 go the furthest. You can reference it. That's 00:14:20.830 --> 00:14:23.870 what we've discovered not true. So the fog in 00:14:23.870 --> 00:14:27.820 this area in particular, even to today, is notorious 00:14:27.820 --> 00:14:31.240 for being high setting fog. So that didn't really 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:33.860 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 00:14:42.419 --> 00:14:45.500 they had just built it, they needed some type 00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:50.549 of signal for non -visible time. So an eight 00:14:50.549 --> 00:14:54.429 foot long cannon was purchased. Oh no. Cannon 00:14:54.429 --> 00:14:59.730 time. A cannon. A dude named Edward Maloney was 00:14:59.730 --> 00:15:02.049 hired to fire this cannon. So he was a retired 00:15:02.049 --> 00:15:05.250 army sergeant at the time. And his job was to 00:15:05.250 --> 00:15:08.750 be on staff to fire it every half hour in times 00:15:08.750 --> 00:15:11.629 of fog. Which is like all the time. Almost all 00:15:11.629 --> 00:15:13.649 the time. So where is this? Big seasonal. Right. 00:15:13.690 --> 00:15:16.549 But continually firing a cannon. Did they actually 00:15:16.549 --> 00:15:18.450 shoot something out of the cannon? Is that what 00:15:18.450 --> 00:15:20.250 makes the sound? Okay, I don't know what makes. 00:15:20.710 --> 00:15:25.389 Basically like a big fiery trumpet. Boom. Yeah, 00:15:25.509 --> 00:15:27.889 just a boom. Boom, am I right? I mean, even Fort 00:15:27.889 --> 00:15:30.509 Hayes State, if you're familiar, that's where 00:15:30.509 --> 00:15:32.009 I'm from, but they had a cannon at the football 00:15:32.009 --> 00:15:35.529 games, and they would fill a balloon with, I 00:15:35.529 --> 00:15:37.309 think it was acetylene, I'm actually not sure. 00:15:37.490 --> 00:15:39.870 Oh, my. Some flammable gas, and they would put 00:15:39.870 --> 00:15:41.789 it down into the cannon, and the cannon faced 00:15:41.789 --> 00:15:46.029 the crowd at a range of 100 yards. You know, 00:15:46.049 --> 00:15:48.500 it was off. off the face of the crowd and anytime 00:15:48.500 --> 00:15:51.720 there was a touchdown a guy with an acetylene 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.519 torch you know a welder's torch would hold it 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.799 to the hole which would ignite it and it was 00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:59.659 it was loud i don't know if it's as loud as an 00:15:59.659 --> 00:16:02.039 actual cannon firing like if there's a cannonball 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.039 if it's louder the charge is more or whatever 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.840 but it was loud and they do it again if they 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.159 made a field goal which is oh you know what is 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.919 it pat the field goal right after the uh you 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.350 know Sports. Yeah. Anyways, so. You're talking 00:16:17.350 --> 00:16:18.669 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. 00:16:20.490 --> 00:16:23.389 Yeah, the point extra, yeah. Yeah, point after 00:16:23.389 --> 00:16:26.809 touchdown. Anyways. Six to seven. So they'd fire 00:16:26.809 --> 00:16:31.090 this cannon in times of fog. That started August 00:16:31.090 --> 00:16:35.990 8th, 1855. So it was just months later. Yeah, 00:16:35.990 --> 00:16:38.389 they were like, wait a minute. He sent a complaint 00:16:38.389 --> 00:16:41.629 via a letter to the secretary of the lighthouse 00:16:41.629 --> 00:17:13.419 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. 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.539 Because it's every 30 minutes. You can't sleep. 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.160 That doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it's like, 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.859 are you wanting me to work 24 -7? That doesn't 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:24.700 make any sense. Do you lay next to the cannon? 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:28.079 At least he cares so much that he's like, I have 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.940 to fire this 24 -7. So somebody needs to come 00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:33.599 help me. I'm surprised he doesn't walk off the 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:38.619 job. Well, yeah, but people die. So he's firing 00:17:38.619 --> 00:17:42.160 this cannon. Soon after this letter, an assistant 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:44.259 was hired to provide some relief for Sergeant 00:17:44.259 --> 00:17:46.960 Maloney. Okay. Sergeant Maloney also sounds like 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:48.940 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. 00:17:54.660 --> 00:17:57.680 Maloney. Alas, all the effort that went into 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:01.279 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 00:18:05.180 --> 00:18:08.730 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 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:12.849 stormy. But I remember us doing a history boo 00:18:12.849 --> 00:18:15.930 one time that talked about how high -pitched 00:18:15.930 --> 00:18:20.109 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. 00:18:23.930 --> 00:18:25.849 No, piano. They said there was someone playing 00:18:25.849 --> 00:18:29.250 piano. Oh, and they could hear it. No, I can't. 00:18:30.170 --> 00:18:35.710 Anyways, so he was fed up. Mr. Maloney. Yeah. 00:18:35.890 --> 00:18:38.150 Sergeant, excuse me. Okay, my job's actually 00:18:38.150 --> 00:18:42.789 useless and I'm tired. He resigned one year from 00:18:42.789 --> 00:18:45.529 when he started. Oh, that's crazy. That's a long 00:18:45.529 --> 00:18:48.150 time. I would not have lasted a year. And I don't 00:18:48.150 --> 00:18:51.710 know if the fog is all year round. No. Okay. 00:18:53.650 --> 00:19:00.970 No. I'm not used to being the support. So he 00:19:00.970 --> 00:19:06.680 retired. So that cannon was replaced with the 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.079 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. 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:15.859 And it was replaced by a mechanically struck 00:19:15.859 --> 00:19:18.400 bell, which was installed near the lighthouse. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:20.759 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? 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:28.680 It's like I've reached my absolute limit, and 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.299 then you... His job was not to be there to tend 00:19:32.299 --> 00:19:34.099 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 00:19:36.339 --> 00:19:38.400 kill himself. But it wasn't even useful. That's 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.720 the problem. If it were doing a damn good job, 00:19:40.859 --> 00:19:43.400 then it would be worth it. But it wasn't even 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:48.720 worth it. Yep. Yep. So mechanically struck Bell. 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.279 Kind of cool. So time goes by, 20 years, 1870s. 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.039 It was clear that the fog signal in the lighthouse 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:57.220 should be relocated to the southwestern tip of 00:19:57.220 --> 00:19:59.500 Point Bonita. where they would be at a lower 00:19:59.500 --> 00:20:02.279 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 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:10.700 think this was the north side, so ships were 00:20:10.700 --> 00:20:12.640 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 00:20:14.619 --> 00:20:18.799 to know when to stop from, stop, yeah. And it 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.480 was lower over there. So remember, though, this 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:23.019 is a rock, so there's a couple interesting things. 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.319 They noted that these were Chinese workers that 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:29.559 did a lot of this work. I don't know how that's 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:31.599 relevant, but they noted it. Against their will? 00:20:32.019 --> 00:20:36.099 I don't know. Railroad workers. Probably not. 00:20:36.380 --> 00:20:39.519 But there was a narrow path that was carved into 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.839 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 00:20:47.940 --> 00:20:53.490 platform for supplies. A railway. With a 45 degree 00:20:53.490 --> 00:20:56.289 incline, which is really steep. For anyone who 00:20:56.289 --> 00:20:58.849 wants to know, that's one for one slope. They 00:20:58.849 --> 00:21:02.009 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 00:21:10.069 --> 00:21:15.230 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 00:21:19.230 --> 00:21:22.390 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 00:21:40.390 --> 00:21:42.650 to a path. Can you imagine how hard it had to... 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:54.599 I wish we had video. Emily's pumping her arms 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:57.920 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. 00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:10.160 These people are going to be like, how many drinks 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:15.160 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.