I never heard of a submarine on the 101 so this must work pretty well
Daaad!
I’d have nightmares of one of them coming loose, ngl
It would be more than one
That’s the nightmare…
So would Worf.
Exactly my first thought looking at this picture. What a horrible way to go
Yeah, it reminds me of that one post10 video in which he crawled under a giant stack of logs. He made it out okay but it had me tense the whole time.
- He’s not walking on a highway, these are next to a highway. He’s walking on a dirt path.
- These are located along the Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1 not US-101) in Seal Beach, CA between Long Beach and Huntington Beach. The route of the PCH shares some portions with 101 now, but at this location they were miles apart. 101 at the time followed approximately where I-5 is now, up near Anaheim instead of down near the coast.
- Here’s some context for where these were: https://sbfoundersday.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/where-the-buoys-are/
Which part of the 101 was this? Very curious whether this was in Los Angeles.
I found this :
SPHERES OF WAR-IN STACKS
PILED up like a show exhibit of gigantic oranges,
hollow iron floats are stacked beside US Highway
101 at Seal Beach, California. In World War II they
were used to suspend anti-submarine nets to protect
US ports. At war’s end the navy hauled them out
of the water, stored them against future contingencies.
Each weighing 680 lb and 5ft in diameter, they stand
in three tidy 45ft mountains, each of 8415 grey floats.
So Seal Beach, assuming this source has it right https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-484219677
The 101 in Seal Beach? It doesn’t lead there (at least today), hmm…
It didn’t look to me like the 101 in SoCal in the first place and I’m old enough to remember it in the 60s. But I don’t know Seal Beach.
Okay now I found this: https://sbfoundersday.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/tdisbh066/
And it looks like there’s another shot of the same stacks. So it’s NOT the 101, it’s PCH. Which makes it Highway 1, right? Isn’t Los Alamitos thereish?
Might be Camarillo for anti-submarine netting around Port Hueneme.
Good point. I definitely need to dig deeper when I have time.
You know 101 stretches up to Canada…
It ends in Washington state. The post is referring specifically to US highway 101 so your bitchy ellipses is unnecessary.
Yeah, it stretches up to Canada. Which means that it ends in Washington
