A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

It brings to mind good memories of family outings spent in former officer's housing, up in Officers Row at Fort Worden, WA. Hide & seek was a lot of fun.

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by jfoutz » Fri, May 05, 2023, 8:57 PM UTC

also, interesting they had to design it not to cast a shadow on that house

""" But the decision to build an architectural icon didn't end problems - it started new ones. The most bizarre was with the U.S. Navy. In 1998, it refused to let Caltrans onto Yerba Buena Island to finish its engineering work. The Navy's issue was whether the Bridge would overshadow the one-time home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, a hero of World War II.

"We had to come up with a design where we wouldn't cast a shadow down onto that particular property," Ney explained, with the Nimitz home in the background and directly next to the new span. "We had to make sure that the bridge snugged up close enough to the existing one so that we weren't coming over the top of Admiral Nimitz' house." """

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bay-bridge-competing-agains...

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by onychomys » Fri, May 05, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

nchudleigh wrote: post #4

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