Treasure Island

The Best Way to Take in a San Francisco Sunset

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:45pm
Categorized: Photography
Tagged: SUNSETS ARE PRETTY GUYS, Treasure Island, Treasure Island Music Festival

Here's what you're going to do at TIMF 2012: about 20 minutes before sunset (when the sun is touching the tops of the buildings/imminent fog), buy yourself a ticket for the ferris wheel and get in line.  If you get too close to the front of the line before the sky turns bright orange, jump out and go to the back of the line again.  The best five bucks you'll spend inside the festival gates.

[Oh, and feel free to blow up that grainy pano]

Previously on Uptown Almanac

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Treasure Island Reclamation Project

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 6:46pm
Categorized: Art - The Streets, Video
Tagged: D Young V, oh boy gentrification, Treasure Island

Colin M Day, White Walls resident filmmaker, takes a look at the history, and future, of Treasure Island with street artist D Young V.  They talk about all sorts of good stuff: building the island out of earthquake rubble, the World's Fair, its naval history, and even its gentrification.  Yes, white yuppie tech workers can even gentrify a place with two convenience stores and almost no residents.  Go figure.

[via White Walls blog]

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Treasure Island

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 10:49pm
Categorized: Travels and Tales, Whimsical Bullshit
Tagged: maps, Treasure Island, who knew something so depressing could be so close to SF?

There wasn't much of interest on the island to photograph, so here's a pic looking away from it.

Between not owning a car and having never had a reason to go to Treasure Island, it took me a whole three years to visit The Island.  I had always assumed Treasure Island would have something cool about it: maybe an off-the-radar bar, or tons of cool graffiti, or a sick BMX park so the flickrs could take rad photos of bros catching air with the Bay Bridge in the background.  Of course, my assumptions were crushed.  After spending approximately 45 minutes on the nearly-deserted Island, where the coolest thing you can do is buy Doritos at the packie that seems to close around sunset, there was a crippling urge to head back to the land of Leader frames and PBR.  Hitting the Bay Bridge, my buddy Kirt nailed it: "Who knew something so depressing could be so close to SF?  You must literally have the most depressing life living there.  Crap, I just spent a few minutes there and I can't wait to never go back."

With that, I would like to congratulate the city of San Francisco for finally acquiring The Island.

Peace out, US Navy (via Octoferret)

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