Birds - not a dirty lens
Abandoned buildings make for very attractive nuisances. This one resides on Pier 90 along Islais Creek in the Southern Waterfront. Closed in the 70′s due to issues with seismically unsound fill, a rotting pier, and changes in shipping technology that favored the Port of Oakland – it stands as a gorgeous reminder of midcentury American industry.
Would I recommend trying to enter this building? Probably not. Between the razor wire, the skunks, the taggers, the police, and a pier with the consistency of angel food cake it’s one of the more foolish places I’ve entered. But god is it pretty…
i vaguely thought it was a soil detoxification plant or something.
When you actually get in there and take a look at the infrastructure you can tell it was for grain. Lots of strange elevators and storage silos and machinery still covered in floury dust. I kinda wish we’d gotten a chance to climb the cranes that loaded/unloaded the ships but that was a little outside my comfort zone.