Muir Woods National Monument and Medocino California

A short drive from San Francisco is the Muir Woods National Monument protected grove ancient Coastal Red Wood Trees. Some as old a 1,000 years rising over 300 feet with circumferences of 20 feet.

 

The Oakland Preservation Park

Occupying two blocks in the heart of downtown Oakland, Preservation Park is a Victorian neighborhood, a unique collection of historic residences transformed into the City’s most innovative workplace and event center. All but five of the structures on the two-block site were demolished. The construction of a new freeway adjacent to Preservation Park also threatened to destroy a significant percentage of the neighborhood’s historic Victorian homes. To preserve these historic assets, the City of Oakland created a public/private partnership to relocate the endangered buildings and to renovate the regrouped 16 residential structures for a new life as a business neighborhood.

 

 

San Francisco Antique Cable Car Museum

Amazing engineering that still works even after several earth quakes. The inventors of those days intended things to last for a long time. Something General Motors, Ford and Chrysler don't understand.

 

Wooden forms for casting replacement parts
 

 

Original Museum sign

Maintenance shop

Gift shop

An earlier Cable Car



Metal Lathe

A young admirer of the motor cable works

Wooden brake shoes

Powell Street Car



The grip grabs the moving cable and pulls the cars along the tracks

University Of California Berkeley (UC Berkekley)

The University of California was chartered in 1868. UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a 178-acre main campus. I toured the main Library, the Charles Franklin Doe memorial Library, one of the many buildings listed in the National Registry of Historic Places.



The main entrance patio

The Doe Library

The bronze entrance to the north reading room

The clock tower in the center of the campus

The North reading room

The South reading room

The bulletin board of the free speech cafe

The reflecting pool and the clock tower and Doe library

A out side reading/study area

A preserved grove very old red wood trees on campus

The free speech cafe

The Berkeley BART platform

The dome of the Berkeley BART station