Cyprus Arch

For years I had seen images of this ancient cyprus arch near Point Reyes California. Finally, we planned a trip to go there and capture it. The arch creates an impressive canopy over this short road to an old building that had been used as a radio broadcasting station for ships at sea. Guglielmo Marconi sited and commissioned the building of this wireless telegraphy transmitting station west of Bolinas and a receiving station in Marshall on Tomales Bay in 1913 to 1914. The Marshall station was supplanted in 1929 to support the growing point-to-point business in the Pacific by a new Art Deco-designed facility at Point Reyes Beach on the "G" Ranch. Few of the succeeding generations of antennas, arranged in "farms" remain at the two sites. However, the radio equipment, ship-to-shore Morse communications, and teletype; some of it dating to the World War II-era, remains intact, has been restored and made functional, and is used to broadcast on numerous frequencies, including KPH. Photo © Copyright by Skip Weeks