Treasure Island is an artificial island in San Francisco Bay and a neighborhood in the city and San Francisco area. Built 1936-37 for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition, the site of the World Fair on the island is the California Historical Landmark. The buildings there have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and the Treasure Island historic Treasury Station, additional air facilities (for airships, hot air balloons, airplanes, planes and seaplanes) are set forth in the Geographic Name Information System.
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Geography Edit
The San Francisco neighborhood that includes Treasure Island extends far into San Francisco Bay and covers the tip of Alameda Island. Yerba Buena and Treasures together have a land area of ​​576.7 hectares (233.4 ha) with a total population of 2,500 in 2010. Treasure Island is linked by a 900 ft (270 m) cobbled lane to Yerba Buena Island, which in turn has on-and off-ramps to Interstate 80 at San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
The island has a marina and a bikeway that connects to the newly completed Eastern substitution at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Restricted pedestrian paths restrict almost the entire island along five streets (Avenue of the Palms, Perimeter Road, Avenue N, Pan American World Airways Esplanade and Clipper Cove Way, formerly known as 1st Street).
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History Edit
Prior to the development of the island by the United States government, the "Yerba Buena Shoals" from rocks in the north of the transbay island had a distance of less than 27 × ft (8.2 m) and was a delivery hazard. The 400-acre (1.6 km km) island was built by a short 287,000-ton (260,000 tonne) quarry of rocks at mooring sites for perimeter rock walls (freshwater reservoirs excavated on Yerba Buena Island rocks). Approximately 23 feet (7.0 m) of dredged sand fills the inside, subtracted from salt, and then 50,000 cubic yards (38,000 m 3 ) topsoil is used to plant 4,000 trees, 70,000 shrubs , and 700,000 flowering plants. Construction of the facility began on 4 March 1937 when two hangars were built.
On Monday, February 18, 1939, 'The Island of Witchcraft' opened with a walled city of some fair tribunals: Court of Honor, East Court, Wind Trade Port in the south and north: Pacifica Court, 12,000 cars, and the adjacent National Building, the $ 1.5M Federal Building, the Hall of Western States, the $ 800K administration building, various industry exhibition halls (eg, "Machines, Science and Vacationland"), and two 335-by-78- foot (102 m * 24 m) planned for post-exposition use by the Pan Am aircraft (eg, China Clipper until 1944) using Port Trade Winds Harbor then called Clipper Cove between the two islands. In addition to Building 2 (Hangar 2) and Building 3 (Hangar 3), the rest of the exposition buildings include Building 1 (Streamlining Moderne architecture) intended after the expo as Pan American World Airways terminal. The Great Lawn Great Wizard expo also remains.)
A stanza of the song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", in Marx Brothers 1939 movie, In The Circus, read "This Grover Whalen unveilin 'Trylon/Over on the West Coast, we have Treasure Island", quoting , at Trylon and Treasure Island, two key features of international civil events that took place that year (as the 1939 New York World's Fair competed for tourist customers with the Golden Gate International Expo).
Military base Edit
Treasure Island was originally intended to be the second airport for San Francisco, adding to the existing San Francisco Municipal Airport, now SFO. But with the war rising, the Navy moved in.
Naval Station (NAVSTA) Treasure Island began under the 1941 war lease as the "naval reception" of the United States Navy. On April 17, 1942, the US Navy shortened the ownership dispute with the city by seizing the island. The Navy eventually compensates the city with $ 10,000,000 in repairs to existing airports, including the reclaiming of 93 acres of land, and postwar ownership of all military improvements. (A widely quoted Navy report led to the urban legend that the Navy traded the island with the land where it built the SFO, in fact, the airport has been operating at its current location since 1927).
NAVSTA Treasure Island has an Additional Navy Air Facility to support helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, seaplanes, blimps, air balloons and airships and the US/North American electronics school. During World War II, more than 12,000 people per day were processed here for Pacific territory assignment, and thousands more were processed for separation after the war.
The psychiatric ward from the naval base at Treasure Island is used to study and experiment on marine sailors who are dismissed for homosexuality.
In the 70s, 80s, and 90s the US Navy held the NTTC Naval Technical Training. Hull Care Technician Training. U.S.Navy Rate consists of Ship Rate and Damage Control of the old Shipfitter Unit. US Navy Technical Training also includes NBC Warfare Decon. New US Tariffs are classified as HT Hull Maintenance Technicians. Dual Maintenance Skills are incorporated into the NTTC Naval Technical Training Command.
In recognition of the leadership of the naval base and its development efforts since the establishment of US Naval Station Treasure Island, Rug Admiral Hugo Wilson Osterhaus Square was established in front of Building 1 Building Building, Treasure Island. Medal of Honor and Navy Cross recipient USMC Gunnery Sgt cinema building John Basilone Building 401 @ 680 Avenue I was founded as one of the early war heroes of World War II.
The station was identified by the Basic Settlement and Closing Commission of 1991, and NAVSTA Treasure Island was closed in 1997. The remaining military structures include Bldg. 600 @ 750 Avenue M (former Naval Fire Officer School, now SFFD's Treasure Island Training Facility & Temporary SFFD Fire Station 48), Bldg. 157 (Navy Fire Station 2 built around 1942 timber frame buildings that do not have modern earthquake Earthquake retrofit) @ 849 Avenue D (SFFD Station 48 closed March 7, 2014 due to health hazards & excessive maintenance), and 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m 2 ) Bldg. 180 by US Naval Station Way & amp; California Ave (now a winery).
SAC radar station Edit
The Treasure Island Radar Bomb Site Reference (call sign San Francisco Bomb Plot ) is an automated Strategic Air Strategy (SAC) radar tracking facility established on the island. Major Posey is commander c. 1948 from Detachment B (Capt. Carlson on August 1, 1949) evaluating simulated bombing missions at targets in the San Francisco metropolitan area to maintain the ability of the Cold War bomber crew. "The nearby Stockton Bomb Plot (Det I)" moved to Charlotte in 1950, and the Treasure Island unit redesigned Detachment 13 in 1951, another 3rd SAC detachment year using the nearest prep/preparation area to be deployed through the bay to the Korean War bombing. directed to land (see Sacramento Plot Bomb at McClellan AFB Annex in 1951.) On October 16, 1951, Det3 Treasure Island was commissioned under the Scout Squadron of the 3933 Bomb Bomb Score before moving on from the island on August 10, 1954 when the RBS Squadron -11 is enabled.
Movie settings and settings Edit
From the late 1980s, the old Treasure Island plane, Hangar 2 (Building 2) and Hangar 3 (Building 3) served as a sound stage for film and TV making, for example, The Matrix ("bullet time" visual effects), Rent , and The Pursuit of Happyness . Treasure Island is a 1939 movie setting of Charlie Chan on Treasure Island, 1988 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Berlin airport scene), 1995 Copycat ( personal compound), 1997 Flubber , 1998 What Dreams Come , 1998 Patch Adams , 1998 Parent Traps and 1999 Bicentennial Man . A staging from 1954 The Caine Mutiny shows the main gate and Administration Bldg 1 to show the location of a fictitious military court. For three years, Treasure Island served as the site of the TV show Battlebots . Penthouse offices and apartments at Nash Bridges are located on the island during show production (1996-2001). The island is featured as the operating base for prototypes in the Discovery Channel 2008 series This Prototype! . Build 180 (warehouse) and House 111 (former firefighters) at Treasure Island serves as a film arrangement for the NBC series titled Trauma .
Remediation and redevelopment Edit
The cleaning staff spent several weeks cleaning the island's beaches from the Cosco Busan 2007 oil spill just a few hundred meters from Treasure Island, and the Navy sold the island to the $ 108 million city as part of the rebuilding project. The Federal Government still maintains an active presence on 40 hectares (16 hectares) occupied by the US Department of Labor Employment Corps (not part of redevelopment). The Ayps Corps moved and took over 40 hectares (16 hectares) and 13 building facilities just after the US Navy vacated the island. The Administration Building (Bldg 1) and the Hall of Transportation (Bldg. 2) are listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. On June 8, 2011, the San Francisco Board of Trustees approved the development of a new environment for 19,000 people over the next 20-30 years by Wilson Meany Sullivan, Lennar Urban, and Kenwood Investments. The 2012-2014 US $ 1.5 billion Treasure Island Development Project for up to 8,000 new homes, 140,000 sq ft (13,000m 2 ) of new commercial and retail space, 100,000 sq ft (9,300m 2 ) of new office space, 3 hotels, new fire brigades and 300 hectares (120 hectares) park. The gas station and canopy pumps on the island were also moved (the island has a high risk of liquefaction and tsunami damage in earthquakes). All of the island's natural gas, electricity, sewage and water utilities are served by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
In December 2010, the Navy contractor has moved 16,000 cubic meters (12,000 m 3 ) from contaminated waste from the site, "some with radiation levels 400 times the human exposure limit of the Environmental Protection Agency for the topsoil. " Contaminated waste should be replaced with discharged waste during the construction of the fourth Caldecott Tunnel hole. In April 2013, cesium-137 levels were three times higher than those previously recorded (the island hosted the "radioactive vessel of the Bikini Atoll atomic test and was the main educational training center for personnel for nuclear war" - USS Pandemonium (PCDC-1) mockup had started nuclear training in 1957.
Education Edit
The island is in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Elementary elementary schools serve parts of the island including John Yehall Chin (North Beach) and Sherman (Marina).
SFUSD previously operated Treasure Island K-8 School. In the Spring of 2004 the SFUSD council voted to close the secondary school portion but continued to operate the primary school. In the last semester of operation there are 95 students. In December 2004, the district decided to shut it down effectively in early 2005. Initially, the Treasure Village Development Initiative was fighting to save the school, but after discipline and staffing problems took place in 2004, the group stopped its business. Heather Knight of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that year "Even the people who have struggled to save the school earlier this year now recognize it is no longer worth saving."
Water supply Edit
The main waterway under the road is supported by an emergency manifold on blue ground with a six-inch (150 mm) diameter hose that can be connected from a large tube attached to the San Francisco/SF Water Dept Public Utilities Commission of mobile trucks sent from SFWD Newcomb Avenue Yard after the earthquake gave Bay Bridge from SF to Treasure Island still in operation.
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See also Edit
- Naval Station Treasure Island
- Treasure Island Development San Francisco Bay Area Portal
References Edit
External links Edit
- Media related to Treasure Island, San Francisco on Wikimedia Commons
- Treasure Island Music Festival
- Treasure Island School at Wayback Machine (index archive)
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