>> Click to enlarge << You can’t be afraid of heights when cleaning the ... Photo by: Bill Edwards

This past December, two years after its installation and on the eve of the 15th birthday of California’s Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, the historic lens that was once in the Point Conception Lighthouse received its first cleaning since being moved from its original lighthouse home of 121 years.

>> Click to enlarge << Jim Woodward cleans each and every prism. Photo by: Bill Edwards

Two of the three members of the team who had moved the lens came back ten days before Christmas of 2015 to give it a thorough cleaning. Jim Woodward and Jim Dunlap spent two days cleaning each and every piece of glass in the lens that, even inside a museum, got very dirty in its open-air display.

>> Click to enlarge << Jim Dunlap cleans the glass from inside the lens ... Photo by: Bill Edwards

The move of the Point Conception lens was chronicled in several issues of Lighthouse Digest from 2012 through 2014.