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Revision as of 19:46, 20 August 2009
Unfinished History
Warm Water Cove at the end of 25th Street on the bay, just south of the Potrero Hill power plant was for a long time a sewage outlet, enjoying a decade as the "toxic golf course" when local punks and other underground culture vultures would hit golf balls into the bay from its abandoned shoreline. Now the park has undergone a facelift, a native plant garden has been started...
Photo: Chris Carlsson
...and to many artists' chagrin, the city government and local property owners organized a painting party to obliterate the remarkable graffiti gallery that had developed on surrounding walls over a ten year period.
Abandoned and graffittied MUNI streetcars litter the docks adjacent to Warm Water Cove.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
At the end of 25th Street is Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Photo: Chris Carlsson
