Uploads from Jassy-50, tagged californiahistoriclandmark

photo - Mission San Juan Capistrano

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:37:04 -0700

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In December, 1812 a massive earthquake destroyed San Juan Capistrano’s Great Stone Church, killing 40 neophytes. Within a year, a brick campanario ("bell wall") was erected between the ruins of the stone church and the Mission's first chapel to support the four bells salvaged from the rubble of the campanile. The two largest bells were cast in 1796, the others in 1804. Recently the two largest bells were recast, and the originals rehung in the ruins of the Great Stone Church.

A California Historical Landmark (Orange County).

photo - Conservatory of Flowers - Golden Gate Park

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:48:50 -0700

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California Historic Landmark NO. 841 - THE CONSERVATORY – California’s first municipal greenhouse was completed in 1879. Patterned after The Conservatory, Kew Gardens, England, it was a distinguished example of late Victorian style using early techniques of mass production and assembly of simple glass units.It was given to the City of San Francisco by public-spirited citizens.

Two Weeks Notice = All Things Glass
Our Daily Topic = Geometry

vintage postcard - Lou Herbert Hoover house

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:38:10 -0700

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Home of Mrs. Herbert Hoover and her husband the President, on the campus of Stanford University.

postcard - Old Sacramento 1

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:47:44 -0800

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Old Sacramento State Historic Park is a cluster of noteworthy, early Gold Rush commercial structures. Historic buildings include the 1849 Eagle Theater; the 1853 B. F. Hastings Building, once home to the California Supreme Court; and the 1855 Big Four Building. Old Sacramento’s historical significance comes from it being the western terminus of the Pony Express postal system, the first transcontinental railroad, and the transcontinental telegraph.

Old Sacramento is a California Historical Landmark. The National Park Service named the entire original historic 1850s business district of Old Sacramento a National Historic Landmark in 1965. With over 50 historic buildings, Old Sacramento has more buildings of historic value in its 28 acres than any area of similar size in the West.

photo - Ascending Nob Hill

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:56:40 -0800

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SF cable car climbing up California St. through Chinatown.

Two Weeks Notice = Iconic; Conveyances-Means of Transport
Our Daily Topic = Transportation

photo - Lightship Relief

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:38:22 -0700

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NO. 1036 Coast Guard Lightship WLV 605 – Relief (decommissioned) - Lightships were floating lighthouses anchored in areas where it was too deep, expensive, or impractical to construct a lighthouse. Lightship WLV 605 was built by the Rice Brothers Shipyard in Boothbay, Maine, and was one of six lightships constructed by the Coast Guard. She was commissioned in 1951 and served at Overfalls lightship station off Delaware coast. In 1959 she was transferred to the Blunts Reef station off Cape Mendocino, where she served until 1969. In 1969 she was assigned as “Relief” for all West Coast lightship stations. She was retired from duty in 1975, and decommissioned the following year. The WLV-605 is one of a small number of only 22 surviving American lightships in the United States and she is the last lightship in California. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
Location: Jack London Square, Oakland (Alameda County)

photo - Mission San Luis Obispo

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:03:37 -0700

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NO. 325 MISSION SAN LUÍS OBISPO DE TOLOSA - Founded by Fray Junípero Serra, OFM, first president of the California missions, Mission San Luís Obispo was the fifth in a chain of 21 missions stretching from San Diego to Sonoma. Built by the Chumash Indians living in the area, its combination of belfry and vestibule is unique among California missions. In 1846 John C. Frémont and his California Battalion quartered here while engaged in the war with Mexico.Location: Monterey between Chorro and Broad Sts, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County

postcard & photo - Mission San Juan Bautista Then & Now

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:37:52 -0700

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Mission San Juan Bautista (old postcard on top, recent photo on bottom) was established in 1797 and is the 15th of the 21 Spanish missions in Alta, California. The plaza on its south, surrounded by old adobes, is the only original Spanish Plaza remaining in California; it is both a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark. You can see the San Andreas Fault, which runs along the base of the hill below the cemetery (the hill having been formed by the movement of the fault, with a drop of ca. 8-10 ft). Mission San Juan Bautista, partly destroyed by the earthquakes of 1800 and 1906 (the Great San Francisco Earthquake), was repeatedly restored. The two bells it now uses were salvaged from its original chime. Vestiges of the original El Camino Real (the “Royal Highway” that connected the chain of missions) can still be seen north of the cemetery.

There appear to have been extensive changes to the architecture of the church from the time of the top postcard to today -- bell tower on the left replaced by a bell wall on the right of the church, for example. Perhaps the tower fell down in on of the earthquakes.

photo & postcard - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia Then & Now

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:14:44 -0700

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The top is a vintage postcard from ca. 1930s or earlier. The bottom is a photo I took recently.

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, 18th of the 21 Spanish missions in Alta California, was founded 13 June 1798 by Padre Lasuén. The mission is named for Louis IX, King of France, who led crusades to the Holy Land in the 13th century. Because of its large size, the mission has been nicknamed "King of the Missions." Although San Luis Rey was one of the last missions founded, it rapidly became the most prosperous of the California missions, with a population that reached 2,869 in 1825, over three times the mission average.

A California Historical Landmark (San Diego County).

photo & postcard - Mission San Juan Capistrano Then&Now 1

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:30:43 -0700

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The top is a vintage postcard from ca. 1930-1945. The bottom is a photo I took recently. You can see a line in the paving on the left side of the photo that appears to delineate the old grass and flowerbed, which have since been paved over. A pity; the profusion of blooms in the old view is so lovely.

Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on November 1, 1776 by Father Junipero Serra. It was the 7th mission in the 21-mission chain in Alta California. It was named for Saint John of Capistrano, Italy, theologian. It is the only mission to have been founded twice. Originally it was founded by Father Lasuen on October 30, 1775. Eight days after the founding the mission, Mission San Diego de Alcala was under attack. The padres, soldiers and others returned to San Diego. Before they left, Padre Lasuen buried the mission bells. Father Serra returned to uncover the bells and once again begin the mission at San Juan Capistrano. In December, 1812 a massive earthquake destroyed San Juan Capistrano’s Great Stone Church, killing 40 neophytes. Within a year, a brick campanario ("bell wall") was erected between the ruins of the stone church and the Mission's first chapel to support the four bells salvaged from the rubble of the campanile. The two largest bells were cast in 1796, the others in 1804. Recently the two largest bells were recast, and the originals rehung in the ruins of the Great Stone Church.

A California Historical Landmark (Orange County).

postcard - San Diego Skyline

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:47:09 -0700

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The Old Point Loma Lighthouse, a California Historic Landmark, sits on a ridge of the Cabrillo National Monument, with the San Diego Naval Air Station on Coronado Island in the middle distance and San Diego's skyline in the background.

photo - Santa Barbara Festival 1992

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:15:10 -0700

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NO. 309 MISSION SANTA BARBARA - Santa Barbara Mission was founded December 4, 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive waterworks, built by Indian labor and preserved in this part, are a filter house, Spanish gristmill, sections of aqueducts, and two reservoirs, the larger of which, built in 1806, is used today as part of the city water system. The fountain and lavadero are nearby, in front of the mission, and a dam built in 1807 is located in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, one and one-half miles up Mission Canyon. Only ruins remain of the mission's pottery kiln, guard house, and tanning vats.

Scan of a 35mm slide.

photo - Conservatory of Flowers - Golden Gate Park

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:48:50 -0700

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photo - Conservatory of Flowers - Golden Gate Park

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:48:50 -0700

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photo - Mills Hall 2

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:00:15 -0700

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Mills Hall at Mills College, Oakland, CA.
Calif. Historic Landmark

photo - Mills Hall 3

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:00:15 -0700

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Mills Hall at Mills College, Oakland, CA.
Calif. Historic Landmark

photo - Mills Hall 1

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:00:16 -0700

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NO. 849 MILLS HALL - Founded in 1852 (before either the University of California or Stanford) as the Young Ladies’ Seminary in Benicia, California, Mills College was the first women's college west of the Rockies and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. When the college transferred its operations to Oakland from Benicia in 1871, it moved into a long, four-story building with a high central observatory. The mansarded Victorian structure, which provided homes for faculty and students as well as classrooms and dining halls, long was considered the most beautiful educational building in the state.
Location: Mills College, 5000 MacArthur at Pierson St, Oakland (Alameda County).

photo - San Leandro Oyster Beds 2

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:38:23 -0700

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NO. 824 SAN LEANDRO OYSTER BEDS - During the 1890s the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around the horn and implant them in the San Leandro beds. The oyster industry in San Francisco Bay was at its height around the turn of the century, it reached a secondary peak by 1911 and then faded away because of polluted conditions of the bay. This monument has been placed at the approximate location of the beds.
Location: San Leandro Marina, S end of N Dike Rd, San Leandro (Alameda County)

photo - San Leandro Oyster Beds 1

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:38:22 -0700

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NO. 824 SAN LEANDRO OYSTER BEDS - During the 1890s the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around the horn and implant them in the San Leandro beds. The oyster industry in San Francisco Bay was at its height around the turn of the century. It reached a secondary peak by 1911 and then faded away because of polluted conditions of the bay.
This view is to the right of the monument, looking out across San Francisco Bay. Note plane making its final approach into Oakland International Airport.
Location: San Leandro Marina, S end of N Dike Rd, San Leandro (Alameda County)

photo - San Leandro Oyster Beds 3

nobody@flickr.com (Jassy-50) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:38:23 -0700

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NO. 824 SAN LEANDRO OYSTER BEDS - During the 1890s the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around the horn and implant them in the San Leandro beds. The oyster industry in San Francisco Bay was at its height around the turn of the century, it reached a secondary peak by 1911 and then faded away because of polluted conditions of the bay. This view is just to the left of the plaque and monument, looking into the old canal and away to the Oakland hills in the distance.
Location: San Leandro Marina, S end of N Dike Rd, San Leandro (Alameda County)