";s:4:"text";s:4915:"The south-facing side of Coit TowerView of the bay from Coit TowerA closer photograph of Coit Tower from the parking lot.Detail of arches at the top of the towerCoit's fortune funded the monument four years following her death in 1929. The They are the most interesting features of what would be a lookout tower with a nice view.
Der Coit Tower, ein 64 Meter hoher Aussichtsturm auf dem Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, wurde von Arthur Brown Jr. und Henry Howard 1933 erbaut.. Am 29. Review of Coit Tower. Coit Tower is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard. She frequently rode with the Knickerbocker Engine Co. 5, especially in street parades and celebrations in which the Engine Co. participated. (Zakheim’s father, Bernard Zakheim, contributed the 10-foot-by-10-foot fresco “Library” in the downstairs outer lobby).
The mural runs up both sides of the stairway, like both sides of the street, and as you climb the stairs, people climb Powell alongside the cable car.Round and round go 2,000 visitors a day at Coit Tower, marveling at the first-floor murals and walking by a double door that leads to the murals no one ever sees.Surrounding the viewer are a mom rolling out piecrust with her daughters, people in formal wear dancing to a piano/guitar duo, adults playing cards at a table, and a dad reading the newspaper in an easy chair.“I’ve been up here for at least an hour at a time,” he says.
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Now that all the murals have undergone the most intensive restoration in their history, an effort is being made to get people up there, but only in groups of four to eight, and only as part of a docent tour.The unifying theme is recreation, as opposed to the first-floor theme, which is industry and commerce, depicted by people grim with purpose, trying to make their way amid the struggle and strife of the Great Depression.This can be done either through City Guides, which offers free tours of all the murals on Wednesdays or Saturdays, or through the vendor, Coit Tower Tours, which includes a docent tour of all the murals, for $7 a person. The Coit Tower Murals were revitalized in 2014 and restored to their former glory. Now every visitor I see walk into this room goes 'wowm’ and their eyes pop open.”“This mural really jumps out,” says Golinger, an attorney who lives in North Beach.
Reviewed August 3, 2013 . The second floor is only as wide as the tower itself, and the seven murals are mostly pressed together at the landing.“When I came into this room three years ago, it had the worst damage of them all,” Golinger says.
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5 in response to a fire call up on Telegraph Hill when they were shorthanded; she threw her school books to the ground and pitched in to help, calling out to other bystanders to help get the engine up the hill to the fire, to get the first water onto the blaze.
Januar 2008 wurde der Turm zum National Historic Site erhoben.. Lillie Hitchcock Coit, ein Kind der High Society, war eine große Verehrerin der Feuerwehrleute von San Francisco. Through her youth and adulthood Coit was recognized as an honorary firefighter.View of Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Marin County from Downtown.