LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD.

@Tai Chi,

One of two lighthouses serving Lake TAhoe (Nev/Cal). Rubicon Point lighthouse looks more like an outhouse

http://www.rudyalicelighthouse.net/CalLts/RubicnPt/RbnPt22.jpg

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Yes, but a poorly designed outhouse. Too many entries for my comfort.

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@farmerman,

I was going to to ask about this alleged lighthouse.

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@tsarstepan,

ACtually, it was installed to provide a beacon to the alien vessels that use the deep lake as a base of operations. People see flying saucers enter the lake every night. It apparently quite busy with UFO action. Course the times we were out there , we saw nothing worth reporting .
Theres another lighthouse that looks more lighthousey. Ill see if I cant find its picture.
WAIT HERE!

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@farmerman,

Quote:

WAIT HERE!

I've been waiting here since 4 in the morning!!

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@tsarstepan,

cool avatar. Ive never seen that character on SOuth Park and Im like a total , like Cartman fan.
Is he one of those Goth kids? or the tooth fairy mobsters.

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@tsarstepan,

OH yeh, I couldnt find the other lighthouse , no picture. It probably isnt worth it. It may just be a beacon. The pic they had on the map looked like a bigger one but that was only a cartoon.
Its a bigass lake so they need some lighthouses.

Any lighthouses on the Caspian Sea?

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@farmerman,

He has never visited the town of South Park but he does recognize that he has distant relatives in that fair section of the US. I think Butters might be his 3rd or 4th cousin, twice removed.

As a thread relevant aside: AS of right now, I'm downloading some Roosevelt Island shots onto my computer.

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@tsarstepan,

Roosevelt Island (northern tip of the island), New York, New York.

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@tsarstepan,

I apologize for the titanic size of the above photographs.... I'm learning how to make them manageable.

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@tsarstepan,

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@tsarstepan,

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@farmerman,

Actually that lighthouse served only a couple of years, in early 20th century:

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The lighthouse was built in 1916 by the United States Coast Guard under the direction of J. J. Bodilsen. Although most records show that the lighthouse was maintained for three years until 1919, there were some conflicting reports. David J. Stollery Jr., in his book, Tales of Tahoe, quotes Ernie Pomin, Captain of the S. S. Tahoe, as stating, "The lighthouse was in use during the 1920's and 1930's."

Acetylene gas kept the light burning. The tanks, each weighing 300 lbs., were delivered to Emerald Bay by the S.S. Tahoe on its daily run around the lake. From there they were hauled up to the lighthouse by mule or wagon. The light could be seen from most places on the lake. This was of great use as there were few homes or buildings around the lake at that time so the shore did not have many lights as it does today. To keep the light burning was a costly and time consuming job. As far as anyone knows, that is the reason the little house was abandoned.

Source

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@Walter Hinteler,

Hence the present outhouse look. Its all boarded upon top. When we were hiking , I did think that it was a porta -potty.

STEP-- That Roosevelt inlet light looks like another nominee for a STephen King location.

If youre Butters cousin, then you are the ubermaster cousin of CAPTAIN CHAOS.

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@farmerman,

http://www.canada-photos.com/data/media/9/covehead-lighthouse_3208.jpg

The covehead light in Queens PEI. This is one of the cutest litehouses Ive seen

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saw this on an episode of Coast (BBC) last night

Holyhead to Liverpool Optical Telegraph

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/images2/prog2_optical_telegraph_experiment.jpg

The Holyhead Sea Cadets demonstrate how the optical telegraph works Long before telephones and cables, shipping companies sent complex messages from Holyhead to Liverpool with the aid of an Optical Telegraph. Whilst most messages took three or four minutes to arrive, it is claimed that they once managed to send a message the entire 100 miles in as little as 27 seconds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/images2/holyhead_liverpool_map2.jpg

It was called an 'Optical' telegraph because the signal on the telegraph pole could be seen from one station to the next. The different positions of the arms on the telegraph represented different numbers which could be translated into a message using the telegraph code book - which could have been anything from 'sunk during the night' to 'have you many sick on board?'.

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@djjd62,

Those optical telegraph existed in many countries, France (1794) and England (1796) being the first to establish them.

The Prussian line (Berlin to Cologne and Koblenz) passed close to where I live - a couple of stations are still to be seen.

The maritime/naval equivalent are the signal stations (most closed nowadays, too - in the 70's/80's they still were used for identification, with flags, and lash.light messages).

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@Walter Hinteler,

One of my first science fair projects in the fifth grade was to make a flourescent light cell transmission of an WELvis Presley song. I did it across the floor of the gym. Thats when Radio Shack actually was a Radio Shack.

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Burnham-on-Sea (Somerset, England), seafront range rear (fixed red, range 3 nm)

Can't see it?
Well, here's a better photo

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@Walter Hinteler,

You still see only the leaning tower of the Church of St. Andrew (which dates back to 1316, btw)?

Okay, here's the light:

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