WALNUT CREEK — It was 1944, and Carol Eisenman Clark clearly remembers the beam from the Acalanes Ridge beacon a mile or so away lighting up her bedroom below. It was a reassuring presence for a ...
Picture the scene: you’re driving through the arid American desert. There’s been nothing around for miles. Suddenly, up ahead, you spot a gigantic concrete arrow. No, you’re not hallucinating as you ...
Scattered across deserts, mountains, and empty plains are giant concrete arrows built to guide America’s first pilots through ...
Picture the scene: you're driving through the arid American desert. There's been nothing around for miles. Suddenly, up ahead, you spot a gigantic concrete arrow. No, you're not hallucinating as you ...
WALNUT CREEK — It was 1944, and Carol Eisenman Clark clearly remembers the beam from the Acalanes Ridge beacon a mile or so away lighting up her bedroom below. It was a reassuring presence for a ...
There is no harbinger in America, a huge arrow lies on the ground, and there are things that are connected to the earth in some places rather than in one place. It is clearly hard to see as a traffic ...
Every so often, usually in the vast deserts of the American Southwest, a hiker or a backpacker will run across something puzzling: a ginormous concrete arrow, as much as seventy feet in length, just ...
When United States Post Office planes took to the skies in the 1920s, they had their own version of the roadway’s yellow line. A series of giant concrete arrows and gaslight beacons helped point the ...
WALNUT CREEK — It was 1944, and Carol Eisenman Clark clearly remembers the beam from the Acalanes Ridge beacon a mile or so away lighting up her bedroom below. It was a reassuring presence for a ...