Contributed by Tim Tyler

Tim writes:
Back on July 28, 2005 I led a small group of interested parties on a `Military History of the San Mateo County Coastline` tour, and after eating lunch at Cameron`s Pub, we drove a quarter mile down the road to visit the old Half Moon Bay Early Warning/LASHUP L-38 site.

I was happy to discover that for the first time in several visits, the door to the inside of what must have been the Ops Blockhouse was unlocked, so we walked inside, and took the following images. It seems like the building is now used to store & maintain the grounds equipment used to maintain the softball fields.

Tim writes:
Half Moon Bay Little League`s "Smith Field" baseball diamonds W of site. 5 baseball/softball diamonds. Obvious LASHUP site remains consist of two old cinderblock, windowless buildings along Wavecrest Rd, just E of baseball diamonds, one even had a sign indicating "These Old Bunkers Kept Graffiti Free By Cameron`s Restaurant." Immediately N of the buildings are the Half Moon Bay Horseshoe Club horseshoe courts, then N of that is the Coastside Dog Park. What I`m guessing to have been the Ops Bldg is about 50` x 20` & it has a small concrete antenna mount to the W of it about 10`, and another one 30` away from the NE corner of the building. This building had a protected entranceway, and then a shed-like structure with a sealed-up bay door in the back. The other bldg E of it about 40 feet is about 25` x 20` & I think was the power production building, as there are three cemented-over openings on the South side which I`m guessing had ventilation intakes at one time. Both buildings are secured, but don`t appear to have much use. The third & final building is located about 100 yards ENE on Wavecrest Rd from the other two. Same construction type, it has a sheltered entranceway, and then the inside of the windowless structure is about 10`x10` with a 15` ceiling. Door is missing off it. There is a large wooden table inside, and a large round opening. No indication as to what it could have been used for. I never saw any evidence of a cantonment area/barracks. The site was apparently in operation as a Ground Controlled Intercept school starting in 1947, and then later as a LASHUP RADAR site for an unknown length of time. While the buildings had clearly seen better days, for being perhaps 50 years old, they`re quite sound and I assume were used & maintained by someone at least up until the 1970s. Site visited: 26 JUN 02.