The Government’s Toxic Secret at Hunters Point

[@ITSHISTORY]

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[@andrewadams3894]

Part of the closed shipyard was once home to the Golden Gate Railroad Museum. They may have been displaced by cleanup operations. They first moved to the Niles Canyon Railroad and later moved to Schellville. Had the museum been able to stay, the place might have retained something of its industrial character.

[@senorowlando]

I lived on Treasure Island from 2008 to 2010 and that place had a fair amount of radioactive materials still being found only 18 inches from the surface of people’s front lawns. Apparently the radiological activity going on at Hunters Point was related to studies being done there as well. Treasure Island was sold to the city of San Francisco for only $1 because it’s still a superfund site to this day. 🇺🇸

[@jbartlet827]

Just across the water on Alameda Island. The old NAS here is a little farther along in the process. We had years of trucks hauling contaminated top soil out and clean (hopefully) soil back in. Today the old base is home to new housing, a marine life sanctuary and a number of wineries and distilleries. It's still a little gross, but far better than Hunter's Point. Hopefully the Point will get there one day. Great video!

[@jmd1743]

America's ship building capacity will never recover just like Britain's ship building industry. The USA had 30 years to prepare for today's mass retirement of the remaining ship yard workers. America's ship building industry was great during ww2 due to multiple generations of institutional knowledge. What's the problem is that we had multi generational grooming the next generation to forgo trades. Boomers & GenXers told their kids to prioritize white collar jobs over trades. What the Boomers are upset about in regards to the trades worker shortage is that the Grandchildren of the Jones won't "accept their place" in society by becoming septic tank pumpers, the boomers never really wanted to see their own grandchildren pump septic tanks, work in factories, roof houses until they retire. The boomers in stead wanted their own grandchildren to become engineers, doctors, programers, and not people who weld for a living. The stage at which they became upset was when they found that there was a waiting list for services such as septic tank pumping,plumbing, and roofing not once did they wish for their own grandchildren to fill in the worker vacancy.

[@SB-qm5wg]

The US has more nuke subs than all of UK's navy.

[@Harley.Davidson]

😂

[@sc1338]

There’s always a chance… we’re America after all. We might just get Tesla bots to do it 😂

[@brucelytle1144]

Boomer here... No, I encouraged my kids to pursue the trades. Daughter was too smart for everyone, no skills today. Her daughter though, is an iron worker, making the BIG $!

[@SkipShooter]

@@brucelytle1144 I encourage my 4 daughters to take an apprenticeship,get PAID a living wage to learn. Unlike college where you pay for a degree that’s gonna be outdated by the time you finish. Proud IBB Boilermaker Local 193 Baltimore

[@brucelytle1144]

I do not understand why the government gave up all of it's shipyards! Philadelphia, Brookland, Charleston, Long Beach, and of course Hunters Point.

[@AB-vc7ox]

Thanks for the history lesson, I grew up in 60’s 70’s SF and somehow little if any of the bay area’s wartime history was ever talked about. In our teens and 20’s the entire Bay Area was history to be explored right under our noses and about all we knew of it was that places like Hunters Point and Richmond were slums and places best avoided, nothing about the amazing contributions to the war effort. If it wasn’t for the internet the history would largely be lost and forgotten.

[@Chronicheaven]

I lived in Hunter's point for 10 months during this century. First night in the hood there was a shooting half a block up on my side of the street. 2nd night at my apt., there was a shooting 2 blocks down on my side of the street. Then there were like 6 days without a shooting. Then there was one on the opposite side of the street down by the library. This was all on Rivera, 1 block south of Palou. Mother Brown's was around the corner, South a block. This was all off the 3rd St. Bart. East at Palou or Rivera

[@jimbicycle]

I used to work on the big HP crane 450 tons. they loaded the atomic bomb at HP on the USS independence after it was dropped off Hamilton AFB in Novato. Later the independence was atomic bomb tested in the pacific returned to HP and then sunk 30 miles off the golden gate bridge. I used to work in many buildings on base. The big grave type drydock is still there 1000 ft long. They were going to station the USS Missouri there. The base should remain for ship repair in case of war in the Pacific The base should be use for homeless camps 40 empty bldgs. The best sandwiches in America are sold on third st near the base been open since the 40s open 6 am M-F

[@why-hf6gc]

@@jimbicycle thanks for the sandwich info

[@caninekathy7740]

my father worked there at hunters point when I was born in 62 but he had already been working there for some years after World War II. I don’t remember when he stopped working there. I think I was around five they once had the USS enterprise docked there I actually began working at Mare Island naval shipyard in 1984 until President Clinton close the base down

[@IndyPhil]

Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says "Hunters Point" 🥴🥃

[@tomcat6458]

I accept your challenge with a bottle of crown

[@stevevanderbol6461]

Oh f@ck that would cause alcohol poisoning. Ok. I'm in. Lol

[@TerryFelixx]

19 seconds in and I'm already downing shot number 2😂

[@tomcat6458]

@@TerryFelixx best of luck hopefully you don’t work on Saturday 😂 my boss immediately called me out this morning

[@SusieDaw-ix6pv]

@@IndyPhil I counted 22 times, and 3 times in the intro. Somebody stop this world, I'm dizzy. Lol

[@Jason-7212]

The US is in des[erate need of shipyards capable of producing large military vessels as since the end of WW II the government has privatized most all of the Naval Shipyards we had. Those shipyards have either closed of downsized to the point that they are no longer capable of producing Naval Vessels as maintaining that capability was not cost efficient. Today the US has less than 5 shipyards capable of building surface warships out of the more than 2-3 dozen that either belonged to the US government or were under contract to the US government at the end of WW II.

[@bxdanny]

When I saw the name Hunters Point, i thought of the neighborhood in Queens, NYC that goes by that name (not to be confused with Hunts Point in the Bronx). Luckily for us New Yorkers, this was about a completely different Hunters Point.

[@schmidt028]

I made a model of the hunters point shipyard crane that’s hand cut steel and Tig welded together it’s big enough that you can put an 80 inch television on top of it and it lives in myliving room

[@glenjo0]

Something to consider - why are most super fund sites former government facilities? Because they kept the records rather than throwing them out like private corporations.

[@bigmacjamie]

Always look forward to your videos

[@zublacus]

Sitting as a kid at Candlestick park, watching Willie Mays roam Centerfield I'd look over and see that giant candy kane red and white crane.

[@tougedriver]

Fun Fact - the show Mythbusters has filmed here

[@Jonny_Mac707]

I believe the final episode was filmed in HP also

[@2dogsmowing]

Is it the same place where Mythbusters lost the hand made cannon (I think that what it was) and Adam was kind of bummed not finding it. Because of the time he put into making it.

[@jimwjohnq.public]

The Mythbusters also did a show at Alameda involving the myth about what would happen if you threw a car into reverse at 60 mph.

[@jimwjohnq.public]

​@@2dogsmowingI thought they deliberately blew it up by putting a couple of pounds of gunpowder down the barrel and then plugging it.

[@2dogsmowing]

@@jimwjohnq.public I think they just blew up the cannon that way. I believe it was empty when they did that.

[@rocketdude2969]

Its good that they are saving a place with such a rich history . That ship yard must have seen a lot of ships over the years.

[@orlandogreen512]

Also they used to have the 15 Navy Yard from off of 3rd Street going to the shipyards going up and down Paulo Street

[@jeremycole8663]

So cool

[@NoahSpurrier]

Is it still a superfund site? I used to live near there. There were some great restaurants near there.

[@Peter421]

"Thousands working day and night." Now, the unemployment rate in that area is quite staggering. Lmao

[@paulhunter1735]

What an absolute waste of a former base and port that we drastically need back in full swing with the US having so many old ships and needing so many new ones built. But does the government get it going again........nope lets let some flower children with paint brushes rent spots there so they can waste the space and build some housing lol. It should be returned to being a naval shipyard and base and be kept so forever. We don't need more so called artists........we need ships built and repaired.

[@michaelwhite2823]

Oh wow. I never knew what that huge white building was. I've seen it from the freeway most of my life.

[@Mark-jb9hx]

Wow, 3 minutes in and still haven't started. This is horrible.

[@TYBO-xl1xz]

I’m on the 7 train so when I saw Hunter’s Point I’m thinking Queens New York 😂

[@jmd1743]

00:47 what a surreal looking panting like photo.

[@rtz549]

@@jmd1743 thought the same thing. Had to pause it and really look it over.

[@mrjim1973]

Well artists will NOT defend our country very well. I'd rather see this area rehabilitated as a modern navel base.

[@jme36053]

@mrjim1973 - I’d rather it stay a Naval base too rather than going to belly buttons. ;-)

[@Thepuffingyank]

So 🤔the city butchered the butcher business within the city limits?

[@paulfields6253]

Your patch is upside down. Pce

Waite " Nuk ya ler" ? please... im gone

[@Balthorium]

Land gained directly from Mexico in 1850 that was private property and part of a grant is not subject to California’s confiscatory coastal land grab. California argued in court they never sold this part of the property, but that would rely on them owning it in the first place, which they didn’t Mexico did. This does not deter evil California Democrats from pursuing this illegal stealing of private property despite the Supreme Court case ruling on the subject Summa corporation versus California lands.

[@engineeranonymous]

And now China's shipbuilding capacity is 232 times greater than US.

[@robclawson3185]

Shifty video

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Hunter Biden's Point?

[@DAVIDVICK-m9r]

OLD NEWS

[@davidgenie-ci5zl]

The Navy needs to take it back, it is a great asset.

[@A_to_Zappa]

Candlestick Park... There and gone.

[@TYBO-xl1xz]

I’m on the 7 train so when I saw Hunter’s Point I’m thinking Queens New York 😂