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"Bowl for Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007. (fedia.io)
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"Bowl for Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

All the pixels, but none of the leftover radioactive waste, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This was captured with a BetterLight scanning digital back and Nikkor 90mm lens on a Sinar P 4x5 camera.

This now-demolished bowling alley was part of the Treasure Island Naval Station, closed about 15 years earlier and then just starting to be redeveloped (a process that's been slowed by serious environmental contamination).

The composition emphasizes the simple lines of the structure and the isolated, rather desolate setting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Serious radioactive and chemical contamination? Sounds woke to me! Still, trunp can buy it cheap, force the EPA to clean it up at taxpayer no-expense-spared, and stick a Turd Tower on it.