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'''View east from Fort Funston towards [[Lake Merced|Lake Merced]], 2014.'''
 
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
 
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'''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''
 
[[Image:Ft-Funston-Battery-Davis-west-side 2883.jpg]]
 
'''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''
 
[[Image:Ft-Funston-view-south-to-Mussel-Rock 2895.jpg]]


'''Fort Funston in the 1980s.'''
'''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: National Park Service ''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


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[[Image:Hang-glider-off-Ft-Funston-with-cliffs 2889.jpg]]


'''Fort Funston near Thornton Beach, just south of San Francisco's city limits.'''
'''Fort Funston is now best known as a premiere hang-gliding spot in the Bay Area.'''


''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


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'''Fort Funston near Thornton Beach, view southward'''
'''Hang glider floats past Battery Davis at Fort Funston, 2014.'''


''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


[[Image:sfsuingl$ft-funston-aerial-1980s.jpg]]
'''Fort Funston in the 1980s.'''
''Photo: National Park Service ''
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Revision as of 15:22, 5 August 2014

Unfinished History

Sfsuingl$ft-funston-aerial-1940.jpg

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-Ft-Funston-towards-Lake-Merced 2879.jpg

View east from Fort Funston towards Lake Merced, 2014.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Ft-Funston-Battery-Davis 2881.jpg

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

Ft-Funston-Battery-Davis-west-side 2883.jpg

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

Ft-Funston-view-south-to-Mussel-Rock 2895.jpg

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

Hang-glider-off-Ft-Funston-with-cliffs 2889.jpg

Fort Funston is now best known as a premiere hang-gliding spot in the Bay Area.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Hang-glider 2885.jpg

Hang glider floats past Battery Davis at Fort Funston, 2014.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Sfsuingl$ft-funston-aerial-1980s.jpg

Fort Funston in the 1980s.

Photo: National Park Service


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