At the mouth of the harbor is the Lewis Bay Light, one of 12 remaining lighthouses on the cape.
The Buzzards Bay Light Tower, rising 170 feet (52 metres) above mean low water, was the first lighthouse in the United States to be built (1951) over open water (i.e., lacking a foundation on dry land); the four-masted structure was scheduled for demolition in the mid-1990s.
"The biggest problem has been that Torrance has not found a way to make the James Armstrong Theatre known as a place to go," said Robert Guest, president of the South Bay Light Opera Society.
He is the catalyst behind the monumental LED art installation on the Bay Bridge, The Bay Lights.
Just over a year ago, a large scale art project called The Bay Lights turned the Bay Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Area structure that's historically been the plainer sister to the famed Golden Gate Bridge, into a glittering destination in its own right.
To date, The Bay Lights' investors including Bay Area tech luminaries including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, SV Angel founder and longtime investor Ron Conway, Y Combinator partner and former Googler Paul Buchheit, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, and others.
Hung from a lone eucalyptus tree atop a steep and rugged slope in Glen Park, the neighbourhood swing provides a breathtaking view of the skyline at night: from the sheer adrenaline rush of the ground dropping away and the beauty of the twinkling Bay bridge, illuminated by Leo Villareal's Bay Lights sculpture.
Leo Villareal, another Burning Man Project board member, recently saw his multi-million dollar "Bay Lights" LED installation adorning the Bay Bridge get permanently adopted by Caltrans.
Wonderfully located on San Francisco's enigmatic Embarcadero, Waterbar also finds itself in another delicious position: In direct view of the Bay Bridge--no doubt 2013's launch of The Bay Lights has made this unique haven even more popular.
Bay Lights, a massive light installation that has adorned San Francisco's Bay Bridge since March 2013, is on track to becoming a permanent nighttime beacon in 2016.
The show opens with the artist's Cloud Drawings, minimal wall-mounted rows of vertical LED's, reminiscent of The Bay Lights, the artist's massive takeover of San Francisco's Bay Bridge.
