Scenic drive to San Francisco - ended up at Coit Tower.
Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit
Memorial Tower, is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.
The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to
beautify the city of San Francisco; at her death in 1929 Coit left one-third of
her estate to the city for civic beautification. The tower was proposed in 1931
as an appropriate use of Coit's gift. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.
The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Howard, with fresco murals
by 27 different on-site artists and their numerous assistants, plus two
additional paintings installed after creation off-site. Although an apocryphal
story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the
resemblance is coincidental.
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| Panoramic view from Coit Tower |
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| Nice weather and great picnic lunch at Baker Beach |
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| Bonus - we got to see some of the America's Cup Sail Boats |
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| A walk thru the Marin Headlands |
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| On top of the world |
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