Logs for PisoMojado
31-Dec-05
On the campus of Stanford University there are in fact at least two carillons. This one is in the clock tower at the intersection of the main quad with the libraries. It has quite an elaborate clockworks, which requires a lot of maintenance to keep in time. The bells are usually on time, though the hands often are not.
Kudos and credit to PurplePeople for pointing this old station out in Princeton-by-the-Sea, California (south of San Francisco and just north of Half Moon Bay). I could never figure out why this building seemed so out of place--it's a thick concrete building, but with an added-on Chinese tile roof, sitting kind of in the middle of the highway. Then PurplePeople placed a cache here with a little bit of its history. To quote him (them?) from GCR5P2:
"The remodels and glazed tiles cover what was once a railroad station. From 1907 to 1920 the Ocean Shore Railroad ran here, pushing south from San Francisco down the San Mateo coast. This was the station for Princeton Harbor, at the north end of the Granada residential development.
"In those days there was no breakwater for the harbor, it was only built after WWII. Fishing boats could do a good business here most of the year, shipping their catch to SF on the train, but southwest winds in winter made the anchorage a death trap lee shore."
"The remodels and glazed tiles cover what was once a railroad station. From 1907 to 1920 the Ocean Shore Railroad ran here, pushing south from San Francisco down the San Mateo coast. This was the station for Princeton Harbor, at the north end of the Granada residential development.
"In those days there was no breakwater for the harbor, it was only built after WWII. Fishing boats could do a good business here most of the year, shipping their catch to SF on the train, but southwest winds in winter made the anchorage a death trap lee shore."
