Candlestick Cove

Unfinished History

Candlestick Cove, Sept 6 1953. View south from Bayview Hill over Candlestick Cove housing (mostly boarded up in preparation for demolition) and Little Hollywood. Causeway under construction that eventually becomes US Highway 101 freeway. The hill at right is being razed, the rock and soil used as landfill for the causeway.

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View From Bayview Hill 1953. Causeway for Highway 101 under construction. Candlestick Cove housing still in place in foreground bottom.

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Circa 1953 view north over the Candlestick Cove housing project. Built in 1943 as housing for Hunters Point Naval Shipyard workers, they began demolishing them to clear the way for Highway 101 in the early 1950s. The rest were removed by the early 1960s.

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View southwesterly c 1950. School students sitting on hill overlooking the Bayshore and Candlestick Cove projects.

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Circa 1924 view from McLaren Park. The smaller hill at center which created the shape of Candlestick Cove, was at the south end of the Little Hollywood neighborhood and in the early 1950s was leveled and became bay fill.

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1953 view from Bayview Hill. View southwest toward San Bruno Mountain, showing Candlestick Cove housing projects and excavation of the hill where Recology now sits.

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Candlestick Cove January 1953. Photo showing condemned and abandoned buildings to be demolished to make way for new freeway construction across the flank of Bayview Hill.

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Bayview Hill, Little Hollywood, Candlestick Cove Housing, Southern Pacific Railroad yard, Visitacion Valley July 25 1948.

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