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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | '''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | ||
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'''Fort[[A Defense of General Funston | Funston]] with [[Lake Merced Wild Garden|Lake Merced]] on its east and the Pacific Ocean to its west on July 1, 1940.''' | '''Fort[[A Defense of General Funston | Funston]] with [[Lake Merced Wild Garden|Lake Merced]] on its east and the Pacific Ocean to its west on July 1, 1940.''' | ||
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'''View east from Fort Funston towards [[Lake Merced|Lake Merced]], 2014.''' | '''View east from Fort Funston towards [[Lake Merced a 'shipwreck'|Lake Merced]], 2014.''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ||
Revision as of 14:24, 5 August 2014
Unfinished History
Fort Funston with Lake Merced on its east and the Pacific Ocean to its west on July 1, 1940.
Photo: National Park Service
View east from Fort Funston towards Lake Merced, 2014.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston's Battery Davis from east side, 2014. This is typical of the WWII-era gun emplacements that dot the coastal areas around San Francisco and are now mostly part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston's Battery Davis from west side, 2014, once home to major artillery directed at repelling a Japanese invasion force during WWII that never materialized.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
View south along Pacific Coast from Fort Funston. Rocks leaving coast in distance are Mussel Rock, the point where the San Andrea Fault enters the Pacific Ocean.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston is now best known as a premiere hang-gliding spot in the Bay Area.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Hang glider floats past Battery Davis at Fort Funston, 2014.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Fort Funston in the 1980s.
Photo: National Park Service
