Here’s what the Lime Point Light, located right next to the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and close to Cavallo Point, looked like back in the day, courtesy of our friends at the United States Coast Guard. Click to expand:
But technological change and the arrival of the bridge in the 1930′s eventually put this station out of business. It was no picnic working there anyway, what with the occasional freighter collision and the constant rain of orange paint chips.
This is how it looks these days, with just the fog station left (and the front gate open on this particular day, for some reason).
Sic transit gloria mundi
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…When I was a Marin County CHP, I got a call of a jumper floating in the area between the GG bridge N. tower and the lighthouse. Sure enough, a fellow was floating face down about 10 feet out in the water. The officer who’s beat it was arrived and suggested I go out in the water and grab him. I demurred, and pointed out that it was his beat, ergo, his call. He declined graciously and suggested that I not tarry as the fellow was headed out to sea and an outgoing tide would carry him towards the Farralons soon. By now, the body was 30 feet out in the water. A GG Br. Lieutenant arrived and provided a grapple. Two tosses and he was hooked by the beatman, but oh, he was hooked in the EYE ! I pointed this out to the trooper on the end of the rope. He insisted that the fellow couldn’t feel it. Body recovered. Reports written. Nary a complaint.