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Offline Santa Dave

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« on: June 18, 2006, 09:13:50 AM »
We found this Guy in the presidio at the south end of the Golden Gate bridge.
The only info there was that it had been removed from a San Francisco school with the permission of the board (do you suppose some kid brought it for show&tell? :grin: ) but no history at all.
Note the full can of cannon grade for scale!(thanks Bob!)
It sits about a mile from the emplacements which guarded San Francisco bay.




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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2006, 10:21:55 AM »
Dave, thanks for posting those two pix.  They were great also thanks for remembering the powder can for scale.  I'll have to get a picture of a nice looking OLD brass tube down in the Raton,NM city park.  That one, if I recall, is on a plain old concrete display base and has dolphin handles on it and yes, I'll make sure to remember the powder can - me of all people!   :) Blaster (Bob in So. CO)
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2006, 11:27:34 AM »
I'm back from Atlanta with a bunch of cannon pix.  There are so many that I set up a series of pages to spread the downloading out.

The Cannon of Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park.
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 10:53:55 PM »
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I'm back from Atlanta with a bunch of cannon pix.  There are so many that I set up a series of pages to spread the downloading out.

http://68.190.219.22:443/kennesawmtn/kennesawmtncannon.htm" target="_blank">The Cannon of Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park.


I was there a couple of years ago. I even bought a T-shirt at the shop :grin: I have some very similar pics to yours. That must have been a hell of a battle. I understand they were so close at times that they were actually throwing rocks.

I like to visit old graveyards. I took this pic at one near the Kennesaw battlefield. Notice the yellow sign...

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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2006, 04:22:57 PM »
Looks like a memorial to someone's bad day.
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