De Young Guard Tower
November 30, 2010
We Built This City got a rare look at the top of the fabled guard observation tower at the de Young.
I took WBTC’s five shots from the middle of Golden Gate Park and stitched it into a panorama:
Lincoln Park to Sutro, in the house! 225º and 5000 pixels (click to zoom).
GGB and a secret Sutro:
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Burrito Justice 
That view ain’t rare man, it’s open to the public every day! Good for double-exposures!
Rare as in *I* haven’t been up there yet.
Yeah I think it’s actually free to go up too. The elevator to the observation deck is on the opposite side of the admission/ticketed entry area to the museum. So whether or not it is the museum’s intent, there is no one checking for tickets when you go up to the deck.
Thanks, I was too lazy to do that. :)
You know me, I’m a panorama ho.
When I first moved to SF in the mid-90s, I was living in the Bayview and my first sort of introduction to SF-lore was this weird old guy who lived in the basement of my house. I don’t think he paid rent, but the landlady let him live there because the space was un-rentable otherwise (a previous tweaker tenant having done things like tear all the plaster & lathe off the walls) and he kind of kept an eye on the place.
Anyway, he, and his walking-Tom-Waits-song group of friends, always referred to Sutro Tower as “The Devil’s Tripod”, a habit that I picked up from them and more or less continue to this day. However, people tend to look at me like I am similarly crazy for calling it that.
I don’t particularly mind that, however I am curious whether any of you have any insight to the history of that nickname?