I recall that the ruins of the mausoleum are along the right side of the first or second fairway. There’s a map of the course at the Lincoln Park Golf Course site, along with this interesting discussion of the origins of the course: http://www.lincolnparkgc.com/Lincoln_Park/Lincoln_History.html

I’m not sure if the mausoleum is visible from the road. You might need to walk the course after the golfers leave.

Jim

Do you happen to remember which hole it was near?

Your podcasts are wonderful. I have my own shelf of San Francisco history books (ok, maybe two shelves), so your podcasts really fill in the blanks for me.

One note about Lands End. It’s not exactly true that no trace remains of the old cemetery. You may not be a golfer, but I’ve seen the remains of an old mausoleum on the first fairway of the Lincoln Park golf course — it’s tucked into an old grove of trees, and really creeped me out when I first golfed there in the early 1990’s. I’m just glad I didn’t know that I was probably walking all over the bodies that remain under the course!

Jim

I actually wrote a short post about the whole “Paris of the West” business about a year and a half ago.

It’s a great topic to speculate about … I think the truth is that there are myriad possible sources, and throughout the last century different people have simply seen the “truth” of it in in their own individual ways.

The bottom line is that if it hadn’t somehow felt right, the nickname never would have stuck.

Great Epi btw
Cheers

My sincere apologies.

Call it a brain cramp — or else it’s just that all French architecture looks the same to me! ;)

podcast audio updated 2/22/09