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Monthly Archives: July 2007
We Call It The Golf Ball….but it’s the Air Force
Tracking Station….. (Photo courtesy Jerry Koontz)
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Colorful “Crabbait”
(photo courtesy Jerry Koontz)
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1966: Kiewit Co. Bids Low for “Rock Arm” Job At Breakwater
(1978 Pillar Point breakwater.Photo courtesy UCSC map room) From Half Moon Bay Review, Oct. 1966 “Congressman J. Arthur Younger today announced that the apparent low bidder on the extension of the Pillar Point Breakwater was the Kiewit Co. of Richmond, … Continue reading
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1891: Pillar Point Was The Back Door (6)
Some kind of a survey had already been made supporting the idea that a railway could be built from San Mateo to the shores of Half Moon Bay. Assuming this iron road was constructed (which it wasn’t) experts said the … Continue reading
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1891: Pillar Point Was The Back Door (5)
There were those who wanted to see fortifications built at Pillar Point because they believed the combination of a calm sea and smooth beach would make it easy for a large enemy force to land quickly. “There is no beach,” … Continue reading
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1981: “Mystery of Half Moon Bay” video online
You’ll enjoy this 1981, 60-minute documentary called “The Mystery of Half Moon Bay.” http://www.archive.org/details/half_moon_bay
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1891: Pillar Point was the Back Door (4)
All efforts to protect San Francisco from invasion by a foreign enemy was useless, it was believed in 1891, unless something was done at Pillar Point, some kind of fortifications. The federal government’s partially completed survey of the coastline between … Continue reading
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1891: Pillar Point Was The Back Door (3)
In 1891–as today–Pillar Point cast its dramatic shadow over the northern part of the crescent shaped bay. This was a very old cliff, a familiar landmark standing guard, towering some 180 feet above the Pacific Ocean–where coastal steamers anchored during … Continue reading
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Pillar Point 1978
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