Industry

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photo by Donald Kinney

Rusting monuments to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
Pipes, pipeways, and corrugated roofs -- standing heroic -- showing off their artfulness in afternoon sun.   All quiet on the Western Front...



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These photos were shot in Mare Island Naval Shipyard at the very top of San Francisco Bay. It was a busy place until the Navy shut down their ship-building and repair operations in the 1970's.

The neighboring City of Vallejo, once a bustling and prosperous Navy town, has now turned into one of the Nation's top rated cities for crime, violence, and danger. The City of Vallejo is completely broke. Vallejo is not a pretty picture.



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Looks like this complex design must have kept the engineers and draftspeople busy. Then there must have been the poor scruffs who had to screw and rivet it all together. Someone seems to have given it a good paint job, but that was definitely a while ago.


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