Palace of Fine Arts
After our exciting and memorable walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, we boarded a Presidio shuttle bus to make our way to the other side of Crissy Field to the Palace of Fine Arts. Because this iconic landmark is right outside the gate of Crissy Field and the large dome is seen from many points on The Presidio, I was constantly being drawn to it. This was definitely a place I wanted to visit and to photograph. This landmark, which is seen in many movies and television shows, was built after the great earthquake of 1906. As fires burned throughout San Francisco and spread across the eastern parts of the city, survivors moved west toward The Presidio. The Presidio set up refugee camps which housed 16,000 or so residents as the city recovered and rebuilt. Within four years, the people of San Francisco were eager to show the world that they "had risen from the ashes". In 1910, the city's leaders decided to host the twentieth century's first great world's