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'''"Dogpatch," one of at least two spots in San Francisco that derive this ubiquitous nickname from the [http://www.lil-abner.com/ L'il Abner] comic strip. This is Tennessee Street between 23rd and 24th Streets, an area that once housed shipyard and other industrial workers, but is a slowly gentrifying area between Potrero Hill and the abandoned [[Shipyards_in_Decay--1996 |shipyards]]. A few blocks away at the end of 25th Street is Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach.'''
'''"Dogpatch," one of at least two spots in San Francisco that derive this ubiquitous nickname from the [http://www.lil-abner.com/ L'il Abner] comic strip. This is Tennessee Street between 23rd and 24th Streets, an area that once housed shipyard and other industrial workers, but is a slowly gentrifying area between Potrero Hill and the abandoned [[Shipyards_in_Decay--1996 |shipyards]].'''


[[Image:Warm-water-cove0891.jpg]]
[[Image:Warm-water-cove0891.jpg]]
'''A few blocks away at the end of 25th Street is Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach.'''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson ''


[[Image:Warmwater-cove-towards-bay892.jpg]]
[[Image:Warmwater-cove-towards-bay892.jpg]]


'''[http://www.sfnpc.org/warmwatercovehistory Warm Water Cove] at the end of 25th Street on the bay, just south of the Potrero Hill power plant was for a long time a sewage outlet, enjoying a decade as the "toxic golf course" when local punks and other underground culture vultures would hit golf balls into the bay from its abandoned shoreline. Now the park has undergone a facelift, a native plant garden has been started...
'''[http://www.sfnpc.org/warmwatercovehistory Warm Water Cove] at the end of 25th Street on the bay, just south of the Potrero Hill power plant was for a long time a sewage outlet, enjoying a decade as the "toxic golf course" when local punks and other underground culture vultures would hit golf balls into the bay from its abandoned shoreline. Now the park has undergone a facelift, a native plant garden has been started...'''
 
''Photo: Chris Carlsson ''


[[Image:Warmwater-cove-native-plant-garden0889.jpg]]
[[Image:Warmwater-cove-native-plant-garden0889.jpg]]


and to [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/BAR5RC8UM2.DTL many artists' chagrin], the city government and local property owners organized a painting party to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dav/1010122186/ obliterate the remarkable graffiti gallery] that had developed on surrounding walls over a ten year period.'''
'''...and to [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/BAR5RC8UM2.DTL many artists' chagrin], the city government and local property owners organized a painting party to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dav/1010122186/ obliterate the remarkable graffiti gallery] that had developed on surrounding walls over a ten year period.'''


[[Image:Muni graffiti warm water cove.jpg]]
[[Image:Muni graffiti warm water cove.jpg]]


'''Abandoned and graffittied MUNI streetcars litter the docks adjacent to Warm Water Cove.'''
'''Abandoned and graffittied MUNI streetcars litter the docks adjacent to Warm Water Cove.'''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson ''


[[Image:Watrtour%24warm-water-cove-tire-park.jpg]]
[[Image:Watrtour%24warm-water-cove-tire-park.jpg]]
''Photo: Chris Carlsson ''


[[Image:Watrtour%24warm-water-cove-warehouse.jpg]]
[[Image:Watrtour%24warm-water-cove-warehouse.jpg]]


''Photos: Chris Carlsson ''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson ''
 
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Revision as of 19:17, 4 December 2008

Pothill$dogpatch-1990s-photograph.jpg

"Dogpatch," one of at least two spots in San Francisco that derive this ubiquitous nickname from the L'il Abner comic strip. This is Tennessee Street between 23rd and 24th Streets, an area that once housed shipyard and other industrial workers, but is a slowly gentrifying area between Potrero Hill and the abandoned shipyards.

Warm-water-cove0891.jpg

A few blocks away at the end of 25th Street is Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Warmwater-cove-towards-bay892.jpg

Warm Water Cove at the end of 25th Street on the bay, just south of the Potrero Hill power plant was for a long time a sewage outlet, enjoying a decade as the "toxic golf course" when local punks and other underground culture vultures would hit golf balls into the bay from its abandoned shoreline. Now the park has undergone a facelift, a native plant garden has been started...

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Warmwater-cove-native-plant-garden0889.jpg

...and to many artists' chagrin, the city government and local property owners organized a painting party to obliterate the remarkable graffiti gallery that had developed on surrounding walls over a ten year period.

Muni graffiti warm water cove.jpg

Abandoned and graffittied MUNI streetcars litter the docks adjacent to Warm Water Cove.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Watrtour$warm-water-cove-tire-park.jpg

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Watrtour$warm-water-cove-warehouse.jpg

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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