Spring is here!
It was my lucky day as I could see the Golden Gate Bridge, a rare treat for visitors.
The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels.[1] The building is a three-quarters scale imitation of the Palais de la Légion d’Honneur also known as the Hôtel de Salm in Paris by George Applegarth and H. Guillaume. It was completed in 1924.
The museum building occupies an elevated site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city, with views over the Golden Gate Bridge. Most of the surrounding Lincoln Park Golf Course is on the site of a potter’s field called the “Golden Gate Cemetery” that the City had bought in 1867. The cemetery was closed in 1908 and the bodies were relocated to Colma. During seismic retrofitting in the 1990s, however, coffins and skeletal remains were unearthed. The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The terminus marker and an interpretive plaque are located in the southwest corner of the plaza and fountain, just to the left of the Palace.
Today, the Legion of Honor’s collection contains over 124,000 works of art and is recognized for its European decorative arts, sculpture and painting; Ancient art from throughout the Mediterranean and the Near East; and one of the largest collections of works on paper in the country.
– FAMSF
A walk through here, sees everyone one their iPads and macbooks…makes me feel like getting one too 😛
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. It is named after a redwood tree called El Palo Alto. The city includes portions of Stanford University, is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Tesla Motors, IDEO, and Facebook, and has served as an incubator to several other high-technology companies, such as Google,Logitech,Intuit, Sun Microsystems, and PayPal. – Wikipedia
Mantra, a modern Indian causal dinning opened by a high tech entrepreneur turned restaurant owner.
Had my 1st beer brewed in India, stuffed full and silly with curries, nanns and samosa……Thanks to my lovely hosts, S&S. Arigatou! 🙂
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