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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 02:37:22 JST Matt Blaze

   "Bowl For Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007

   All the pixels, none of the rental shoes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265/

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 02:37:20 JST Matt Blaze

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     San Francisco's Treasure Island is a weird place. An artificial island built adjacent to Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the Bay Bridge, it initially hosted the 1939 World's fair, with plans to then use it for the city's main airport. At the start of WW II, the US government appropriated it for use as a Naval station. After the Cold War, the government returned the island to the city. It was extensively contaminated by radioactive waste from decontamination training conducted on the island.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 02:37:21 JST Matt Blaze

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     This was captured with a BetterLight scanning digital back and Nikkor 90mm lens on a Sinar P 4x5 camera.

     This now-demolished bowling alley was part of the Treasure Island Naval Station, closed about 15 years earlier and then just starting to be redeveloped (a process that's been slowed by serious environmental contamination).

     The composition emphasizes the simple lines of the structure and the isolated, rather desolate setting.

     Kim Scheinberg repeated this.