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Today I decided to swing by the old tuna cannery cause I saw something posted there the other day and hadn't had a chance to check it out.
The notice didn't have a date on it and it's possible it's been there for awhile, but Caltrans applied for a permit to remove existing structures, foundations and footings. It's going to be demolished. The notice says that the building is within an existing Caltrans right-of-way. I saw a guy on the side of the building pulling stuff out of the trailer that's been there for a long time so I went to talk to him about it. He told me that he had to get everything out of the trailer cause the trailer was going to the scrapyard now that the building was coming down. He didn't know the exact date, but he said that they're going to blow it up. We chatted for awhile, nice guy, then I decided to go take some pictures since we don't know how long it will be around at this point.
I heard other people a couple of times, but I never saw anybody else in there.
For those who may not know, in 1962 two women in Detroit, Michigan, died from botulism food poisoning after eating a bad can of A. & P. tuna packed by the Washington Packing Corp. in San Francisco. Health authorities across the country began searching for all the other cans of Washington packed tuna marketed under various brand names (Tastewell, Ocean Beauty, Drake's Bay, Tuna-4-Cats) with the code WY2 and WY3. Tuna sales plummeted and the cannery, who had never had a problem before and had packed 12 billion cans of tuna in it's 45 year history, closed it's doors even though they were never accused of any health violations that could account for such a poisoning. Although only a few cans were infected, all of Washington's stock was confiscated by the government and was buried with great publicity beneath ten tons of garbage in a dump next to Candlestick Park. The plant has remained abandoned for the past 47 years.
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Those are great pictures! And that place looks awesome. I need to get there before its gone....
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Unfortunately many things in Cali are owned by Cal-Trans...including many Hayward houses/buildings. I was surprised to learn that when I moved here. My friends live in a Caltrans house. They could be kicked out anytime Caltrans wants to do it. Kind of scary.
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Posted by sandaili
Unfortunately many things in Cali are owned by Cal-Trans...including many Hayward houses/buildings. I was surprised to learn that when I moved here. My friends live in a Caltrans house. They could be kicked out anytime Caltrans wants to do it. Kind of scary.
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Cal-Trans owns a wide/long strip in Hayward from the 238 to almost Union City. It has been broken up in a few sections as their original plans of development fell through. They didn't realize it was the Hayward fault when purchased. Originally just east of Foothill/Mission blvd. was going to be a full hy-way. Back in my youth, a buddy of mine lived on Carlos Bee. His frat house,Delta Chi was a caltrans owned house. Now demoed. The majority of the neighbor hood behind it is also Cal owned and slowly being abandoned. But there is a great 4x4 spot @ the abandoned quarry @ the back of the hood  .
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Thanks for the updates and the pics! I have been there once before but would love to pay another visit before it comes down.
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I went there this past weekend, also in anticipation of it being torn down. There were at least 4 groups of people I saw. Looks like everyone else had the same idea. I highly recommend seeing it before it's gone. Some of San Francisco's best graffiti artists have work in here. Some of it dating back to the late nineties.
Flickr set: http://www.flickr....72157622201083299/
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My friend Mark ( who introduced me to this site) took me there last week. It really is something to see before it goes under completely.
I didn't charge my battery so I couldn't take many shots. But it was a beautiful place. Broken down machines every where, desks, pipes that lead no where and a disturbing amount of children sized clothing.
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Posted by lie-fromsf
... and a disturbing amount of children sized clothing.
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SF has a lot of that these days. Must be the local pedo community you stumbled upon. Heard somewhere they live in tunnels under the site. I think /-/ooligan has seen these too, but not sure.
Careful when exploring the tunnels tho. They are not friendly.
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Look scary in tunnels...duly noted.
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Thanks for the good word on the pics. I appreciate it and glad some of you got there. I've been out of town a lot the past couple months and haven't been keeping up with the boards, but I'm back, the dust has settled, and I ventured out tonight to maybe take some pics, and swung by the cannery to check on it's status and it's gone. One tower, the end that has "vomit" painted on it rather prominently, is all that's left. The rest is sadly an empty lot piled with rubble.
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Rest in peace.
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Thats a shame that its torn down now, this was one of the locations I always wanted to go to. There are so few San Francisco UE locations, I guess land values are just too high.
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There are so few San Francisco UE locations
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SF is a wonderland for exploration and photography. Keep looking and you will find what you seek.
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