You can learn a lot when you visit San Francisco’s Japantown
The Great Mall of Buchanan, at night:
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Posts Tagged ‘crane’
In San Francisco’s Japantown, Crane Horse Boat is Tsu-ru, U-ma, Fu-ne
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Port of Oakland – So Many Container, So Few Container Crane AT-ATs
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009The busy Port of Oakland has more international shipping containers than you can imagine.
That keeps the Star Wars AT-AT-looking container cranes busy all the time.
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Know Your Giant Floating Cranes – The Bay Bridge’s Left Coast Lifter Up Close
Monday, June 8th, 2009SF Citizen’s CitizenShip One was able to get up after the winds died down this past weekend, so enjoy a close-up view of the business end of the largest crane to ever hit the West Coast, the best coast. Maybe this bad boy will put and end to the delays and help get the eastern span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge finished on (the revised, revised) schedule.
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The Left Coast Lifter is painted red white and blue reflecting the fact that it’s straight out of Shanghai, China. It can lift about 2000 tons (American short tons, the best kind).
Keep up the good work, LCL.
Finally, Tower Crane Replaces Coronet Theatre. Soon, Senior Housing on Geary
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Famed five-star Yelp-rated Coronet Theatre at 3575 Geary near Palm Avenue in the Inner Richmond district done closed down with a final showing of Million Dollar Baby on March 17, 2005. Did people camp out for ages to be first in line for a Star Wars movie premier back in the day? Oh yes. But that’s all history now.
These days, straight-out-of-Hayward Peck and Hiller is laying concrete For The Future, which will take form of a building from the Institute on Aging for housing seniors. We shall take a look-see, non?
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Let’s take a peek up there at The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love. This tower crane operator sits and stands to make everything work.
Rebar sailing above Geary Boulevard. Mind the spilled motor oil…
Burly construction workers are on hand to protect the Porta-Potties from the One Who Shant Be Named:
And here’s what it will all look like, if you can see past the chain link and graffiti:
It’s too bad we lost the Coronet, but just try filling a 1300-seat one-screen theater in this Day and Age.
Get ready for the Inner Richmond, seniors!
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Coronet, Coronet the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all bay areans have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her projection, and the kings of Hollywood have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
