What could I possibly say that hasn't been said before,
much better? ... The island is Alcatraz, the city itself is buried in fog at the right side of the picture.

Before anyone showed up to build S.F., it looked somethin' like this .... some of it still does -
it's called "Ocean Beach".

If you could turn around 180 degrees from the vantage
point above,this is what you'd see.
Now called'Golden Gate National Recreation Area'....
The Marin Headlands has been put to radically different uses in the past - scattered all over these hills are what's left of gun batteries built during WWII .....

A few more remnants of the past?