Washington Packing Corporation Tuna Cannery

-Dispatched from B.A.S.E. Camp Oakland-

So we took a trip to the Washington Tuna Packing Corporation, AKA the TIE One Warehouse, this past weekend in anticipation of it being torn down. There were at least 4 groups of people I saw. Looks like everyone else had the same idea. I highly recommend seeing it before it’s gone. Some of San Francisco’s best graffiti artists have work in here. Some of it dating back to the late nineties.

Mike Giant – Dated 1997

Its history has all been covered before so I will keep it brief.  This plant packed tuna.  Two women from Detroit got botulism from eating said tuna.  There was huge scare, millions of sales lost, and the tuna industry freaks out and forms the “Tuna Emergency Committee.”   Washington Tuna shuts down and buries recalled tuna in a dump near Candlestick park.  Washington Packing agrees to pay $226,500 to the families.  Everyone forgets a year later and goes back to eating canned tuna (gross).  Original articles here and here.

Six stories of this loveliness, it is more a gallery than a warehouse now.

Girafa with a capital “G”

And what would a trip to the Tuna Plant be without a stroll through that magical candy land: Islais Creek?

Along the way we encounter these two hounds, heavily at play.  Their owner was lurking around in the bushes off to the left.

Calligraffiti

And my favorite crane that used to process coconuts, can you spot the MUNI bus?

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