MYSTIC
The New Greece
San Francisco, United States
Welcome to Mt. Olympus, a gift from Adolf Sutro. It is a small park with a tree-shrouded path circling a pedestal that in 1887 was built to hold a statue portraying the Triumph Light Statue. The arm holding the illuminated torch soon disappeared, supposedly the victim of sailors who found it a distraction when approaching the bay at night. The concrete eroded with time, and in 1954 the city removed the sad goddess, leaving the 30-foot-tall stone base.