(click to enlarge) This is a map of Bayview-Hunters Point. 3rd Street is the main street of the neighborhood and has been since the late 1800’s.
Fish Market in 1950’s- The Bayview Fish MArket was just one of the shops in the row called Solari Flats on Third Street between Kirkwood and La Salle Avenues. Rita Solari stopped in one day and was asked to model for the owners as they photographed their catch of the day
3rd Street in 1900- This view is looking from Railroad Avenue (Third Street) and Quesada Avenue. The horse Corral on the right eventually became the site of Bay View Federal Savings and Loan
Ship building during World War I- (top photo) The Challenger is launched, and the docks with layers of scaffolding and numerous cranes await the next ship. (bottom photo) During World War I, a new ship was launched practically every day
Hunters Point in the late 1800s- Prior to 1868, not much more than this serpentine rock and the Ohlone Indians populated Hunters Point. Shipyards and slaughterhouses started to make their way into the area in the mid-to late-1800’s. Soon houses and livestock started to populate Hunters Point Hill. The 1906 earthquake started the next wave of new occupants to this part of the city.
Docks in 1904- Here is a 1904 view of the Hunters Point dry docks and the hills behind them
Once the height of industry in San Francisco, Union Iron Works now lays abandoned in the waterfront of the Dogpatch.
Bike tour of Dogpatch abandoned factories, most of which were a part of the Union Iron Works Co.
Bicycle tour of Bayview-Hunters Point part 2
Towards the end of the Ride I ended up near the water by a PGandE plant, and Hunters View Pubic Housing, which is according to this wikipedia entry, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_View) is the one of the worst public housing projects in the country.
A bicycle tour of Bayview-Hunters Point.
The start of my tour of Hunters Point began on 3rd street at Sam Jordan’s, which is a corner store that has been in operation since 1959. The rest of my trip was completely purely an exploration of a neighborhood, which I have read much about, but had not visited. For the most part, being that it was Sunday, things were fairly quiet, except for a few BBQ’s, which were made up of large gathering of people laughing and playing music.
My route
Sam Jordans, 4004 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94123
3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, 5190 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94124
Martin Luther King Pool, 5701 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94124
Jazz Room, 5267 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94124
Hunters View, 227 West Point Road, San Francisco, CA 94124
*the order is from top to bottom on the map
The Dogpatch Neighborhood Association was founded in 1998 by a group of local citizens and businesses concerned with the rapid and often poorly planned development threatening historic resources of the area. The group was established to monitor issues regarding the neighborhood’s development, and to encourage thoughtful and visionary urban planning that respects and celebrates the history and character of the neighborhood. Website contains information about upcoming community meetings and projects.
1918, Looking south, Illinois street on right, Twentieth street at large L-shaped Union Iron Works main building.
Union Iron Works was at one point the most important industrial company in San Francisco, employing over one thousand men from the Dogpatch area, and producing nearly all of the ships used by the US Navy during World War I.
Today it is little more than an patch of abandoned warehouses and factories.
Photo of the Dogpatch from the corner of Illinois and 19th Street with Irish Hill in the background, taken in 1862.
