From doom@kzsu.Stanford.EDU Sat May  8 16:11:58 1999
Date: 8 Nov 94 02:15:44 GMT
From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: *sigh*

Here's an example of why SF is for goths: 

I was driving up to the city with someone once who gestured
out the window around south San Francisco and said something
like "this is the neigborhood that they built where a grave
yard used to be", and I thought something vauge like "Huh,
must of taken a lot of work to move all of those graves".
But then I was looking at the Exploratorium web page,
reading about the "Wave Organ":

   Wave Organ is located on a jetty that forms the small Boat Harbor in
   the Marina district of San Francisco. The jetty itself was constructed
   with material taken from a demolished cemetery, providing a wonderful
   assortment of carved granite and marble, which were used in the
   construction of this piece. 

They didn't move any graves.  They didn't even bother moving
the markers (ala Spielberg's "Poltergeist").  They just
crunched them up and build right on top of them. 

Last week I went and found the Wave Organ itself.  Not a bad
spot: a nice view of the city and the bay bridge across the
water, and a good place to listen to the quiet gurgling and
faint buzzing of the "wave organ" by moonlight. 

I didn't see any obvious tombstones in the construction of
the place, though there are definitly some odd stones piled
up in the jetty that look like they used to be some sort of
marble arches... 

(The location of the Wave Organ web page is:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/programs/wave_organ.html)