I wrote it and recorded it on a Casio pocket camera as it filmed a video slideshow. Very LOW TECH!

You may be a Sythesete, not sure I spelled that correctly. If you associate a word or subject with a color, smell , or taste that may be how your mind organizes things. My daughter is like that, each subject for school was color coded. FOr her English was blue, for example. It just WAS. When you are trying to help someone get organized, it's important that you understand how THEIR mind works to organize things and thoughts so the system works for them. Some of us can use standard color file folders, some people need special colors.

What kind of horn did lime point have?

Mastercheifaprooved1 Not sure. Definitely more than one though.

@@TheChachLINY How many of these have been decommissioned? I heard the horns on the golden gate are the only ones still operating.

Leslie I believe.Three horns, one 17 inches I believe pointing straight ahead and 2 smaller horns one pointing west. The other pointing east. Leslie also made horns for locomotives.@@Mastercheifaprooved1

@@Mastercheifaprooved1 Only the horn located on the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge is still in operation from this video. Lime point doesn't have a horn any more.The others have single tone electric horns.

It was, Greg. Make no mistake about it.

It's sad a lot of these are gone now. Only 3 remain and they don't sing to each other anymore.😟

Dennis Dunne pretty much 90% of them

Plenty

They aren't the same ones as in the video sounds here though. They've been replaced

Josh S I agree! Lovely sound. Personally, though, my favorite on here is Point Bonita. That two-tone diaphone had a nice rich sound, shame that it's gone forever.

@@gabrielbennett5162 You're right, it is shame. 😔

​@@joshs4594 I miss diaphone foghorns. My favorite diaphone one was at Bonita. They sound eerie but beautiful at the same time. It gives character and actually calms me, especially when you could faintly hear them from a distance. They took most out and the bay is quiet and doesn't sound like this recording anymore.

Sounds like Jóhann Jóhannsson compositions from the Arrival soundtrack 🙌🏼👏🏼💨

I love them too, I just wish they kept more of them and the 'old diaphone foghorns. Those are my favorite ones that aren't used anymore and most of SFs foghorns were taken out due to tech advances. I miss the orchestra and falling asleep to that as well. The Bonita one was my favorite hearing from a distance and it really wasn't too loud. A lot of them were miles away that it was a faint clam feeling. There were 51 horns in the bay at once at one point.

@The Logical Twit Yes, modern fog horn devices aren't the same as past years. A shame it is. As for the 40's or 50's the Lime Point Leslie Chime fog horns were installed about 1932. replaced in 1960-61 by an electric horn run by a 2 rows of about 20 plus batteries, boring mono toned all in part to a the India Bear that ran into the light house destroying the outhouse on June 3rd 1960. Next year the 3 story building of the lighthouse was torn down. This fog horn had different tones at different locations in San Francisco. This recording must have been made from a boat at an angle off the side of Lime Point either east or west . I hear an echo in the recording due to the cliff west of the light house.

Why did Lime point have a horn ? Was it for ship safety?

dieselpower1133 A ship ran aground at Lime Point in the 50s or 60s and the Coast Guard upgraded the air whistle to the 150-255 horn which had an audible range of 4 miles.

kansasthunderman1 ah interesting ! Is it still being used today or is it decommissioned? If so why was it decommissioned?

dieselpower1133 The foghorn at Lime Point was decommissioned in 1984. The reasoning given by the Coast Guard was that the horns on the Golden Gate Bridge (on the south pier and at midspan) were adequate to warn mariners of the limits of the channel. There is still a beacon on Lime Point.

kansasthunderman1 thank you for the knowledge of this interesting topic! I had no idea the coast guard was so keen to ship safety back in those times .