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This is the old foundation at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. Here’s the new hotel, you can see the foundation on the cliff to the right. Half Moon Bay itself is very small, with only about 10,000 people, but the hotel, and the hotel’s golf courses are world famous. The pillars were torn down last year when a storm hit and knocked one over. www.hmbreview.com/news/council… Apparently, the oceanside foundation never had a building on it. I think these pillars were from an aborted attempt at building a hotel in 1972, but the project folded and went through several owners until Ritz first began building on this site in 1999 and finished I think in 2003.

So, this is a fantasy picture from ages past, a memory of things vanished, just a floating string of electrical current, that, when snuffed out, another link is gone between man and time. Here’s an imaginatively syrupy little documentary on half moon bay and their Portuguese parades. archive.org/details/half_moon_… Things have changed a lot since the 80’s.

I’m dog tired today, and Xander’s just getting warmed up.

Patrons: would you like higher res files of the landscape pics? I can do a patrons-only post with the image at 4000w (I suppose I could do the full 10000x but that's a huuuuge file even compressed) thoughts?

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This is the old foundation at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. Here’s the new hotel, you can see the foundation on the cliff to the right. Half Moon Bay itself is very small, with only about 10,000 people, but the hotel, and the hotel’s golf courses are world famous. The pillars were torn down last year when a storm hit and knocked one over. www.hmbreview.com/news/council… Apparently, the oceanside foundation never had a building on it. I think these pillars were from an aborted attempt at building a hotel in 1972, but the project folded and went through several owners until Ritz first began building on this site in 1999 and finished I think in 2003.

So, this is a fantasy picture from ages past, a memory of things vanished, just a floating string of electrical current, that, when snuffed out, another link is gone between man and time. Here’s an imaginatively syrupy little documentary on half moon bay and their Portuguese parades. archive.org/details/half_moon_… Things have changed a lot since the 80’s.

I’m dog tired today, and Xander’s just getting warmed up.

Patrons: would you like higher res files of the landscape pics? I can do a patrons-only post with the image at 4000w (I suppose I could do the full 10000x but that's a huuuuge file even compressed) thoughts?