RON HENGGELER

September 4, 2018
A few photos from Monday, on Labor Day Weekend

Dave and I drove over to Berkeley in the mid-afternoon to escape the City's holiday crowds and traffic. On the drive over, we detoured onto Treasure Island to see the recent developments and construction. There's nothing left of the old buildings on the island, they've all been demolished. Flatened fields and mountains of rubble are the current look on Treasure Island. Even the palm trees on the Avenue of the Palms that ran along the shoreline facing San Francisco are gone. The only buildings that remain standing are the three large buildings from the 1939 Fair. The homes and run-down buildings on the island's northwestern side are still there, but I doubt for much longer.

After spending time on Telegraph Avenue we drove up to Grizzly Peak Blvd the runs along the ridgeline of the Berkeley and Oakland Hills. There was a thick marine layer coming in from the Pacific so there was no panoramic view of San Francisco and the Bay. Despite that limitation, here are a few images from Monday's visit to Berkeley.

Headdress to the jar honoring Sylvia McLaughlin

Sunlight reflecting off the windows of the Salesforce Tower as seen from 6th and Folsom

A tower on the western span of the Bay Bridge

The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge as seen from Avenue N on Treasure Island

The U S Navy 5 Inch Gun Turrent Mount Display (between California Avenue and Clipper Cove Way on Treasure Island)

Highway 24 heading to Walnut Creek as seen from Grizzly Peak Blvd

Highway 24 heading to Oakland and San Francisco as seen from Grizzly Peak Blvd

Highway 24 heading to Oakland and San Francisco as seen from Grizzly Peak Blvd

Highway 24 as seen from Grizzly Peak Blvd

Grizzly Peak Blvd

The view with the fog on Grizzly Peak Blvd in the Berkeley Hills

The view with the fog on Grizzly Peak Blvd in the Berkeley Hills

University of California in Berkeley as seen from the Lawrence Hall of Science on Centennial Drive in the Berkeley Hills

UC Berkeley students standing on the whale in the courtyard of the Lawrence Hall of Science, on Centennial Drive in the Berkeley Hills

The hills and the fog above Berkeley viewed from Grizzly Peak Blvd

Heading back into San Francisco on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge

The tunnel on Yerba Buena Island

Approaching San Francisco on the western span of the Bay Bridge

 

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