Cypress Tunnel Monochrome

by Paul LeSage

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Cypress Tunnel Monochrome

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Paul LeSage

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Photograph - Photography

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The Cypress Tunnel trees line the drive to the historic KPH Maritime Radio Receiving Station.

The trees were planted around 1930, by “the father of radio” Gugliemo Marconi, as a reminder of, and tribute to, his native Italy. The Monterey cypress that now create the "tree tunnel" at the Point Reyes Receiving Station is a signature landscape feature that evokes some of the prestige that RCA placed in this profitable, historic operation.

Marconi sited, and commissioned, the building of a wireless telegraphy transmitting station west of Bolinas CA, and a receiving station in Marshall CA on Tomales Bay in 1913–14.

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.

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July 24th, 2017

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