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'''1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over [[India Basin|India Basin]], [[Shipyards in Decay--1996 | Union Iron Works]], Spreckel's sugar refinery, PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities  below Potrero Hill in the distance. [[Islais Creek Remembered|Islais Creek]]''' waters below.
'''1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over [[India Basin|India Basin]], [[Shipyards in Decay--1996 | Union Iron Works]], [[Sugar Palace|Spreckel's sugar refinery]], PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities  below Potrero Hill in the distance. [[Islais Creek Remembered|Islais Creek]]''' waters below.


''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''
''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''
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'''The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.'''
'''The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters, the [[Hunter's Point PG&E Power Plant Before and After|PG&E plant]] before its demolition on shoreline.'''


''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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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.'''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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'''March 2009, after [[Hunter's Point PG&E Power Plant Before and 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''





Revision as of 18:47, 22 July 2011

Unfinished History

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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

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India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1928

Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA

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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

India-basin-park0907.jpg

The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters, the PG&E plant before its demolition on shoreline.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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The southeastern shoreline is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat.

Photo: Chris Carlsson




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