“Bowl For Health”, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
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“Bowl For Health”, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
Government-issue pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265
#photography
By now many, though not all, of the structures from the island’s military era have been demolished (including the bowling alley in the photo). Environmental remediation is proceeding slowly.
A small community of mostly low-income families live in the island’s housing, and some of the larger buildings are used as sound stages for film production and related industries.
@mattblaze@federate.social I was only there once, for the flea market, but of course everyone in the East Bay goes by it going into SF.
@mattblaze@federate.social have you been out there recently? It’s now mostly a construction site for ~10 story apartment buildings and is trying to go up market. (It actually looks pretty good.)
@crawshaw So isolated though.
@mattblaze@federate.social agreed, it needs some commercial space to bring it to life. The tiny ferry from sf is fast and fun, maybe there’s an opportunity to build things that are too expensive for SF proper.
@mattblaze@federate.social disembowled.
@mattblaze@federate.social it used to not be so low income, i knew a few people who lived out there many years ago, but as they started remediating it became obvious that it was a dangerous place to live, and then men in bunny suits might show up and tell you not to dig in your garden. and so, it became poor and black because that’s still how america do. bowl for health indeed.
@quinn The Bay Area has a remarkable density of former WWII-era military bases that turned out to be radioactive.
@mattblaze@federate.social and chip fab lands that are incredibly carcinogenic. it is unironically one of the most dangerously polluted places on earth, but it’s actually manageable. as long as the water table never rises.
@mattblaze@federate.social “A small community of mostly low-income families live in the island’s housing,” I hope this means the contamination is cleaned up.
@CStamp@mastodon.social sadly, it was more like, “don’t plant any vegetables or go in any fenced off areas. Good luck”.