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I scouted out my location today...

kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve

It wasn't too crowded; just a handful of people, though I was there at 4:00 pm, when it was starting to get dark. Ideally, I'd like to get there at 6:30 am, when only insane joggers are out. Here's some shots I got:

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I should be able to hit it on the first weekend of February!
"I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What kind of history to the place?

    It's pretty enough, that's for sure.

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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What kind of history to the place?

    It's pretty enough, that's for sure. >>



    From a webpage called "Walking the dog at Pulgas Ridge"...

    Pulgas Ridge is a 366-acre preserve that was once the site of Hassler Health Home, a tuberculosis sanitarium owned by the City of San Francisco. The sanitarium operated from 1926 to 1972.

    I'm SO thinkin' Mercury dimes. image

    I walked around the place, thinking: If I had TB, what would I do? Is there a good picnic area? A place to sneak off for some afternoon delight before death comes a knockin'? I have some decent areas already staked out and I read the rules-- there's nothing that says you can't detect or dig. And no matter how much I dread it, I can walk down the hall from the IT room at work and get a tetanus shot in about five minutes for free-- I should do that if I'm going to be sticking my hands in holes looking for metal things.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh, yeah, the sanitarium. Didn't you mention it previously?

    I think Merc dimes are a real possibility. Not sure what's out on the trails, but certainly around where any old buildings are (or were), it could be good shooting.

    I hunted an old sanitarium in NC once. It had been built in the late 1800s.

    We weren't there long, but I got a Merc from the 1920s. One of the guys with me might've found an Indian cent- I forget.

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  • DUBBADUBBA Posts: 935
    good luck....find some mercs ++...hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck... looks like a lot of area to cover.. will need more than one weekend. Cheers, RickO
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Good luck... looks like a lot of area to cover.. will need more than one weekend. Cheers, RickO >>



    Thanks!

    The whole area is around 366 acres, according to the webpage...
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack. never heard of anyone hunting there before, but i know a few who would.

    i too hunted a sanitarium here in san jose/ santa clara area(Agnews). the city sold it to sun microsystems and it was almost entirely demolished. found many nice coins in there.
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack. never heard of anyone hunting there before, but i know a few who would.

    i too hunted a sanitarium here in san jose/ santa clara area(Agnews). the city sold it to sun microsystems and it was almost entirely demolished. found many nice coins in there. >>



    I've been to that campus! They kept the belltower.. or made another one. That one was an insane asylum!
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
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