:: Ingleside Terraces Sundial ::
The Ingleside Race Track opened in the fall of 1895 and had stopped really doing any business by the time the 1906 earthquake hit. It actually helped lodge patients from Laguna Honda hospital and served as a camp for refugees after the quake. The Sun Dial Park opened with a crowd of 1500 people in 1918. You can still see the racetrack’s shape remaining in the Ingleside neighborhood by looking at any map. Here take a peek after the jump.
Doric column and Sun Dial Park
this picture below features a part of the sundial known as the gnomon – it is said to have been derived by Herodotus who discovered it from the Babylonians.
gnomon’s are always pointed facing due north.
what used to be the straight way at the race track.
here is a pic of the track in the late 1890s
