— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
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.
Comments (4)
I’m kind of a sucker for the nostalgia of the Golden Gate International Expo (along with the earlier Panama-Pacific), so remnants of that would be cool to see. Also a cool place from which to watch the Blue Angels.
the only cool thing out there is that part where they filmed it to look like the Berlin Airport in the Indiana Jones movie.
other than that it’s pretty depressing. I went to a party out there ages ago when people were living there and it seemed like it was so “hell and gone from Cartagena” ish that I never went back.
Did you see the radioactive part? That’s kind of interesting. Around Gateview and Westside, there are a bunch of houses that clearly haven’t been touched in >30 years, surrounded by a fence with the trefoil all over it. Across the street from the toxic houses are occupied homes, complete with big wheels and tonka trucks in the driveways.
They should build giant casinos on Treasure Island….