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'''The [[Hunters Point Mid-1990s|PG&E Hunter's Point power plant]], finally shut down after years of community pressure, on the shoreline in 2007 prior to its deconstruction.''' | '''The [[Hunters Point Mid-1990s|PG&E Hunter's Point power plant]], finally shut down after years of community pressure, on the shoreline in 2007 prior to its deconstruction.''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
[[Image:Across-India-Basin-at-demolished-pge-plant-and-downtown 7734.jpg]] | |||
'''March 2009, after demolition of PG&E power plant, the view across India Basin north towards Herons Head Park and downtown in distance too.''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | ||
Revision as of 17:36, 25 March 2009
Unfinished History
1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over India Basin, Union Iron Works, Spreckel's sugar refinery, PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities below Potrero Hill in the distance. Islais Creek waters below.
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1928
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
India Basin, pictured here in 1996, where a park was carved out of the industrial shoreline just north of Hunter's Point.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The southeastern shoreline is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The PG&E Hunter's Point power plant, finally shut down after years of community pressure, on the shoreline in 2007 prior to its deconstruction.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
March 2009, after demolition of PG&E power plant, the view across India Basin north towards Herons Head Park and downtown in distance too.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
