The Port of Oakland
Like the chapters on the technical side of whaling that comprise a good portion of Moby Dick, the Flaneur offers a guided tour through the actualities and the sumulacra of marine industry, seen here as arte trouve.
Next stop Jack London Square
Dig the guy riding the grill on this freight train
Emergency boats and a floating lighthouse
Leaving the Oakland Ferry landing
The floating lighthouse next to the Potomac
Roosevelt's "floating White House"
Roosevelt's "floating White House"
Shipbuilding at an Alameda boatyard
Bay Ship looking tres hip
The Alameda Ferry landing
Another container ship Oakland-bound
They're here.... the X Ships have docked
Think of all those toilet flushes
The Military and Prison industries leave picturesque detritus
Decorative bookends on the untamed Bay
C'est moi
Ur source...
...on Beach street...
... the old main drag
Justly proud
Behind the curtains
The aqueous theater and its double
Ghosts of the Lighthouse hotel
The wilderness begins at the Golden Gate
Enter the fog after fish or after adventure
The odds are fair that you'll return
Not you, shipwreak
With the printing press came a host of chimeras
Fugue state on a Sailor Jerry's tide
Everybody needs some kind of ventilator
San Francisco was a hard-core Union town
The first settlers may have landed
in pods from who-knows-where
Heavy metal led to the Industrial Revolution
With your street car visions of cannery row,
sang the prophet
sang the prophet
The cable cars do stop at this former cannery
Made in San Francisco
Wooden ships fashioned here
Built to last
From Penny Arcade to today's extreme video parlors
The Amusement Industry is big business
Laughing Sal retired to the Musee Mecanique
After a career at Playland at the Beach.
Laughing Sal retired to the Musee Mecanique
After a career at Playland at the Beach.
Tour boats stay afloat
The Port of Oakland full moon approach
Another perilous voyage
Survived
December 2013-April 2014
2 comments:
Those are mighty words mate, and good photos as well. All we need is a whiff of the old salt air. Jyk
You betcha.
It's been chilly but I may sneak a crossing in a manana
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