NIKE MISSILE SITE( SF-88), San Francisco Bay Area
During the tense years from 1953 to 1979, the United States Army built and operated a total of 280 Nike missile firing batteries in the United States.
These missile sites were emplaced as the last line of defense against Soviet bombers.
The Nike Missile Site in the San Francisco Bay area (SF-88) was a primary line of defense against foreign aggression targeting the United States within our borders. One of the missiles there was the Nike Hercules solid propellant-fueled surface-to-air missile (SAM).
The Nike-Hercules SAM, designation MIM-14, was used by US and allied armed forces for high and medium-altitude strategic air defense. It could also be configured to be used in surface-to-surface situations.
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A former Nike missle silo in San Rafael, CA.
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POVLA - 0009 - Mt. Gleason Nike Missile Installation - LA-04
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In this episode, Neighbor Mike and I travel to an abandoned Cold War Nike Missile installation situated near Mount Gleason (~6520 ft.), deep in the Angeles National Forest. As the crow flies, this is just 23 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
FUN FACT - Angeles National Forest is the oldest national forest in California and is California Historical Landmark #717.
Beginning in 1958, many of these missile sites were equipped with the new Nike Hercules Missile that carried either a 2kt or 20kt nuclear warhead.
With only a 100 mile range, the Nike Hercules missiles were the last line of defence against a Russian (or Chinese) attack of bombers or ICBMs.
Here is an AT&T (formly Western Electric) historical video with excellent information about the cold war missile defense.
It is fascinating how quickly this project went from idea to construction and implementation.
Los Angeles had 16 of these Nike Missile sites defending the LA basin. Chicago and New York City were surrounded by about 20 of these sites each. Here is a comprehensive list of the Nike Sites throughout the United States. You can see if there were any installations in your area or state.
The Mount Gleason Nike Missile Installation, denoted LA-04, was operational from 1955 to 1974. At over 6500 feet, this was the highest Nike Missile Site in the country.
The Mt. Gleason site was closed in 1974 and the property was returned to the forest service.
In 1979, this site was converted to a Los Angeles County prison fire camp #16.
In late August of 2009, the Station Fire burned the Angeles National Forest, consuming over 160,000 acres. On August 30th, the fire destroyed the Mt. Gleason site. Two firefighters died while trying to save the camp. Captain Tedmund “Ted” Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones. There is a memorial near the site of Camp 16.
The site/camp is now abandoned and was mostly destroyed by the fire. A few concrete structures remain in the (1) Administrative and (2) Launch areas. The (3) IFC area on top of Mount Gleason is completely demolished, except for a large water tank.
A big thank you goes out to Rick Eldridge for taking the time to chat and tell his story. Thank you for your service, Rick.
And in remembrance of Ted Hall and Arnie Quinones.
These two put it all on the line to try to save others.
They are heroes in my eyes.
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Motorcycle Ride: Stinson Beach to Marin Headlands
This is the return ride from Stinson Beach back to San Francisco with a quick detour through a bit of the Marin Headlands (Southern most point of Marin County). The Marin Headlands offers some great views of the city, bay, and pacific, combined with numerous hiking trails and a couple stops that could be worth checking out, like the Nike Missile Site SF-88-L.
My two favorite parts of this ride are between [00:50 - 01:50] and [06:37 - 07:12].
Other times to check out, if you're just browsing through; [03:25 - 03:44]; [06:14 - 06:22]; [08:39 - 08:47]; and [09:49 - 09:52].
Calling All Cars: Cop Killer / Murder Throat Cut / Drive 'Em Off the Dock
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)