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He moved to San Diego in 1848 and worked as a blacksmith and saloon-keeper. [14] He and Maria Arcadia Alipas Machado, [15] the daughter of a long-established San Diego family, were married by a priest in 1852 at the Casa de Estudillo in Old Town. They had four children: Henry Clay Israel, Joseph Perry Israel; Robert Lincoln Israel, and a second ...
Parkers' Lighthouse Long Beach Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown ... San Diego 1891 1973 Active VLB-44: 88 ft (27 m) Point Montara Light ...
WBAL-TV: Paul's Puppets children's marionette show that ran from 1948 to 1958; WBAL-TV: P.W. Doodle (Royal Parker), children's cartoons and Mickey Mouse Club reruns 1962-1965; Maryland Public Television: Bob the Vid Tech (with Bob Heck) Children's Interstitials and specials 1993-2010
It was first lighted on March 23, 1891, replacing the Old Point Loma Lighthouse which is atop the 400 feet (120 m) cliffs of Point Loma; the old lighthouse was often obscured by fog. The new light is only 88 feet (27 m) above the water. The first lighthouse keeper was Robert Decatur Israel, who had been keeper at the old lighthouse for 18 years ...
Ballast Point Lighthouse was a lighthouse in San Diego, California, situated on Ballast Point, a tiny peninsula extending into San Diego Bay from Point Loma. The lighthouse was torn down in 1960; the site is now on the grounds of Naval Base Point Loma. Ballast Point Lighthouse was the last lighthouse displaying a fixed light on the Pacific ...
Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest lighthouse (tied with Point Arena Light ) on the West Coast of the United States .
Founded in 1902 under the direction of Josephine Rowan as the Reading Room for the Blind in the San Francisco Public Library's basement, the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired has grown out of a series of nonprofit mergers throughout its century-long existence into an organization that provides a wide range of services for the visually challenged in the Bay Area.
Founded in 1983 by Wayne Wheeler and initially headquartered in San Francisco, California, one of the United States Lighthouse Society's first major projects was the purchase of the lightship LV605 in 1986 from a private individual. The organization subsequently invested $400,000 and more than 40,000 volunteer hours in the preservation and ...