~Visited Coit Tower:
Located in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of SF, CA, in the city's Pioneer Park. Tower was built in 1933 as a legacy of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the city of SF. Took about 4 years to build.
Before December 1866 there wasn't a fire department established near this community; fires were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies. When Lillie Hitchcock Coit was about 15 years-old, she witnessed the Knickerbocker Engine Co. No. 5 respond to a fire call near Telegraph Hill. Seeing that the firefighters were shorthanded she pitched in to help while calling other bystanders to do the same. She established a special relationship with the city's firefighters and was frequently seen riding in the street parades on the Engine Co. No. 5.
She established in her will that a third of her fortune was to be spent adding "beauty" to SF. Two memorials were built in her name: The Coit Tower and a sculpture of three fireman, one of them carrying a woman in his arms.
Taken from the Coit Tower steps
Little History at the entrance
Art inside Coit Tower
Alcatraz Island ^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SF view ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My Sis and Me at the top of Coit Tower
~Chinatown in SF [I had dumplings for the first time!!!! Loved them, my sister didn't lol ]
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| Candy from China Town |
~ Lombard Street in SF:
View from Lombard Street to Coit Tower
~ Had brunch at Boudin:
~ Trolleys
SF Trolley/ "Cable Cars" ^^
Had the Trolley song stuck in my head: [Meet me in St. Louis - Judy Garland]
clang, clang, clang
went the trolleyding, ding, ding
went the bell
zing, zing, zing
went my heartstrings
from the moment
i saw him, i fell
chug, chug, chug
went the motor
bump, bump, bump
went the brake
thump, thump, thump
went my heartstrings
when he smiled,
i could feel the car shake
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