California

CALIFORNIA

San Francisco or thereabouts
1950s

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#186: The Golden Gate. Taken in San Francisco Bay.

#187: The part of the Bay Bridge running from Treasure Island to Burbank, California. Taken at San Francisco Bay, California.

#188: The Big Bay Bridge at San Francisco, California. Taken in the San Francisco Bay.

#189: Bay Bridge at San Francisco, California.

The places Steele visited while in California.

Golden Gate Bridge

Treasure Island Navy Base

San Quentin Prison

Off the Coast of California

#197: Task Force off the Coast of California for operation surf board.

#198: Taken off Coast of California.

#199: Just one of the planes on the Sea off the Coast of California.

#200: Taken off the Coast of California. Just two ships in the division.

#201: One of the biggest cranes in the world.

#202: 37 is the Princeton (it is the big air craft carrier that got hit the same time Uncle Bob's ship got hit) with destroyer in foreground.

#203: DDs. 2100 Class and some L.S.T.s

#204: The little boat is a water taxi. The ships are destroyers of the 2100 Class. There are two L.S.T.s in the Foreground.

Postcards

Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Fisherman's Wharf

Cable Car Turntable

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