[K6NCG] Ghost of Building 318

[Bob Snyder]

Bill,

It was just a bit north of that location. It's hard to tell because 
almost all the landmarks have disappeared. But assuming that 9th street 
hasn't changed, it was just a bit further up north. Back then Avenue of 
the Palms (the main road onto the island) made a slight jog inland at 
9th St.

Here is an aerial view of the area in question taken in 1968:

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=8E-06&lat=37.8245042381174&lon=-122.37737827393&year=1968

Building 318 is right in the center. It is about 3/4 of the way up from 
the jog in Ave of the Palms to where the road turns right just north of 
the shack. Historic Aerials is a cool web site. You can play with the 
year and zoom in and out.

In the next few days I'm going to be posting a web site that has photos 
of the ham shack, people, views from the tower, etc. taken when I was 
there in 1969. One of those photos is a view to the south taken from 
atop the tower and you can clearly see 9th St and Ave of the Palms, and 
the lay of the land thereabouts.

Bob W6CP (ex K7YDM)


On 06/27/2013 05:09 PM, billgibson at fuse.net wrote:
> We didn't have GPS in those days but I think building 318 was located at the "bump" on the shoreline where 9th Street intersects with Ave. of the Palms.
> In my humble opinion the old shack was located at: 37 49.37 N, 122 22.59 W  I attached a screen-shot from Bing Maps and it appears that you can see
> the foundation outline of the old shack (check it out just above the blue dot). However....I stood in that exact spot in 2003 with the XYL and I found nothing
> but a chunk of concrete floor about 1.5 by 2 feet. Anyway that's a great aerial photo.
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> Bill - K4UC
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