“Bowl for Health”, Treasure Island, San Francisco, 2007.
All the pixels, none of the rental shoes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265
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“Bowl for Health”, Treasure Island, San Francisco, 2007.
All the pixels, none of the rental shoes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265
#photography
San Francisco’s Treasure Island is a weird place. An artificial island built adjacent to Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the Bay Bridge, it initially hosted the 1939 World’s fair, with plans to then use it for the city’s main airport. At the start of WW II, the US government appropriated it for use as a Naval station. After the Cold War, the government returned the island to the city. It was extensively contaminated by radioactive waste from decontamination training conducted on the island.
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. Fancier redevelopment is starting to accelerate.
@mattblaze@federate.social I’ve only been on that island once, for the flea market. But like everyone who has resided in the East Bay, I drove by it hundreds of times.