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Around Jingletown
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Everyday photos I took in and around Oakland’s Jingletown district as it gentrified around me during the fifteen years (2001 - 2016) I lived there. All photos mine unless noted; older photos will generally be posted first.
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Another one of the recycling plant, March 2003, this time from the Alameda shoreline, showing its proximity to the Estuary.

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A large industrial plant, with three tall central smoke stacks or chimneys in a row and a bunch of other plant infrastructure, stands next to the Oakland Estuary.
May 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Fruitvale Bridge spanning Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda, 2003. (Quoting Wikipedia) "The Fruitvale Bridge is a vertical-lift Warren through truss moveable railroad bridge"; it's very much a part of Jingletown's skyline.

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A yellowish vertical-lift Warren through truss railroad moveable bridge with one end tower in Oakland, the other in Alameda, looms up over a narrower part of Oakland Estuary. In the background, the recycling plant.
May 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The recycling plant, March 2003. Not really in Jingletown, it definitely help define its skyline, though, being visually omnipresent in places.

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A large industrial plant, with three tall central smoke stacks or chimneys in a row and a bunch of other plant infrastructure, stands next to a road in Oakland.
May 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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MV Ensenada (BC), Oakland Estuary, February 2003. Coast Guard Island in the background with several cutters moored there, and downtown Oakland in the right background.

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A vessel of some sort – the Ensenada, BC (Baja California, presumably) — lists abandoned nest to a very broken much smaller vessel on the Alameda side of Oakland Estuary. In the background, Coast Guard Island with a brace of very white cutters, and downtown Oakland off to the right.
May 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Embarcadero, Jingletown (2003). The Redy Mix plant under a stormy sky.

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A set of cement plant tanks, towers, and other bits of machinery looms up the other side of a large concrete block fence on the far side of The Embarcadero as it (the Embarcadero) curves around to the right. It's winter, and it's late in the afternoon; it's just been raining.
May 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Barge Lucky Logger moored at Jingletown's ConAgra silos, February 2003.

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A largeblack and red barge, showing a lot of signs of wear, and with the name Lucky Logger painted on its bows, is moored on Oakland Estuary at the ConAgra pier. In the background you can see Downtown Oakland under a stormy sky.
May 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Another view of the forest of cranes at Livingston Street pier, Oakland Estuary, late 2002.

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A gaggle of barge-mounted mobile floating cranes is moored at the docks at the foot of Livingston Street, Oakland, in the Oakland Estuary at Greater Jingletown. The very still water reflects the cranes and the cloudy sky.
May 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Another view of the old TS Golden Bear training ship (a.k.a. "The Artship") at the Ninth Avenue pier, Oakland, December 2002.

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An old white-and-blue training ship is moored at the Ninth Avenue pier in Oakland Estuary under a rainy sort of grey sky. The water is still and reflective.
May 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The old Store-Ur-Self (yes!) warehouse right next to Interstate 880 in Jingletown (January, 2003). Later converted to very expensive lifestyle lofts ("The Cotton Mill Studios").

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Am old rectangular four-story brick warehouse with large glass windows stands next to an eight-lane freeway in Oakland. It has a signs on it saying "SELF STORAGE" and "BUSINESS STORAGE", with phone numbers. In the foreground, some dumpsters.
May 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The forest of cranes… floating cranes at the foot of Livingston Street, Jingletown(ish), 2002.

#jingletown #photography #OaklandEstuary #Oakland #California #Industry
A gaggle of barge-mounted mobile floating cranes is moored at the docks at the foot of Livingston Street, Oakland, in the Oakland Estuary at Greater Jingletown. The very still water reflects the cranes and the cloudy sky.
May 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Oakland Estuary and the Fruitvale Bridges, looking east (southish) from Park Street Bridge, 2002.

#photography #jingletown #alameda #urban #UrbanLandscape #oakland #OaklandEstuary
An old truss and girder rail drawbridge stands over and is mirrored in Oakland Estuary. To the far left is the recycling factory; on the right, the island of Alameda.
May 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Estuary and the old MV Golden Bear, up towards Ninth Street, 2002. The Golden Bear was supposed to become The Artship, but that fell through; I don't know what happened to it after that.

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A small old white merchant vessel with a blue funnel is moored at the Ninth Street pier on a very reflective Oakland Estuary. The sky is post-rain grey.
May 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Two industrial Jingletown icons in one photo: the ConAgra grain elevator and the Redy Mix concrete plant, The Embarcadero, 2002.

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An empty four-lane industrial road curves off to the right; beyond it, on the left, a large urban grain elevator; on the right, the Redy Mix concrete plant's concrete plant stands up behind a fence.
May 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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More Straus Carpets surrealism (2002). Straus used to have walls and (movable) billboards done with wonderfully surreal things like this; they always brightened up the neighborhood for me.

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A painted exterior wall contains a surreal scene of a couple dancing while next to them a formally-suited man with a pointing hand for a head stands there pointing the way to the Straus Carpets showroom on Ford Street, Jingletown, in the early-2000's. Next to them there's a painted view of a greenish sea as seen from a balcony.
May 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Looking southeast from Park Street Bridge, 2002 — the (now long-gone) old tin sheds to the left, the Fruitvale Bridges in the middle distance, the recycling plant wedged (visually) between the two, and Alameda on the right.

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A smooth body of water reflects a set of semi-industrial structures — a railway drawbridge, a recycling plant, some large old tin sheds — and in the distance loom the Oakland hills. In the foreground, a cluster of small boats is moored to a buoy.
May 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Cemex plant, 23rd Avenue, Jingletown (with a bit of the ConAgra grain elevator poking through on the left); 2002.

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A concrete plant looms up over 23rd Avenue — tubing, mini silos, tanks, a control cab, angled elevators, etc.
May 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The edge of the Estuary… some Jingletown landmarks, including the Cemex and Redy-Mix concrete plants, the boat yard, the ConAgra silos, and the Coast Guard HQ as seen from Park Street Bridge (2002).

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A mass of light and heavy industry splayed out on the banks of Oakland Estuary: in the foreground, a small barge moored at the Cemex cement plant; behind the Cemex plant, the Redy-Mix concrete plant; in the center, the boat place; next to and behind it, the ConAgra grain silos looming up large. And in the far distance, Coast Guard Island and a handful of large USCG cutters.
April 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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After the rain (2002). Typical bit of Estuary-side vacant land back then… there was a lot of vacant land around back then, some of it badly contaminated.

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Some sort of strongly-built storeroom or shed stands on rain-wetted and partially overgrown concrete next to the Estuary somewhere in or near Jingletown. In the immediate foreground, a wire fence topped with barbed wire.
April 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Sunset… another shot of the ConAgra grain elevator from around 2002, this time from across the Estuary in Alameda.

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A well-worn looking urban grain elevator rises up on the banks of Oakland Estuary against a cloudy winter's sunset sky. The elevator's silos are mirrored in the still Estuary water. There are a small handful of boats moored on both sides of the Estuary.
April 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The old sheds on Glascock Street, Jingletown, still in use when I took the photo (2002). Later expensively re-architected…

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A defiantly worn but still in-use multi-story tin shed complex stands on Glascock Street ; it has corrugated panels of different (faded) colors, and the arms of some sort of crane poke out from near the top of the main facade over the sidewalk. A defiantly worn but still in-use multi-story tin shed complex stands on Glascock Street ; it has corrugated panels of different (faded) colors, and the arms of some sort of crane poke out from near the top of the main facade over the sidewalk.
April 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Redy-Mix concrete plant, Kennedy and Embarcadero, 2002. Another constant in Jingletown life back then was the two busy concrete plants squashed into the neighborhood — and the endless stream of concrete trucks coming and going at all hours.

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A concrete plant and associated trucks and machinery lurk behind a partial cincder block fence off Oakland's The Embarcadero. It's been raining; the light and photo are near monochrome.
April 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A wintry sunset at the ConAgra grain elevator. One of the icons of Jingletown, this is a building that'll feature endlessly here over the years (sorry!). This one's taken from the Embarcadero, around 2001 I think.

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A large pale urban grain elevator rises up in the middle distance next to an urban road; it's just finished raining, the light's wintry (because it's December).
April 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Jingletown's old tin sheds on the banks of Oakland Estuary, 2002(ish). These were torn down for the inevitable cheap-looking condos soon after; the artists and craftspeople, etc., who lived in the sheds were booted out (of course).

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Three large nearly-derelict metal-clad sheds sit on the banks of Oakland Estuary near Park Street Bridge; they're reflected in the water below. They have bright metallic facades and dark roofs. There are a handful of small boats on a floating dock in front of the nearest shed.
April 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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SHOWROOM (2003) — one of the deliciously surreal bits of the Straus Carpets place on Ford, before the fire that took out much of the block in 2006 (Straus rebuilt and is still going).

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A couple dance on a painted wall while next to them a formally-suited man with a pointing hand for a head stands there pointing the way to the Straus Carpets showroom on Ford Street, Jingletown, in the early-2000's. Between them and the showroom there's a painted view of a greenish sea as seen from a balcony. One of many bits of good-natured surrealism from Straus that'll feature here…
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Castle Jingletown… Jingletown's ConAgra grain elevator seen in a morning mist from across Oakland Estuary (2009).

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A large pale mist-shrouded grain elevator complex stands up on the edge of Oakland Estuary.
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM