click the above image to learn more about this project from the source--the Pacific Bell phone book.
click the above image to learn more about this project from the source--the Pacific Bell phone book.
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Looking up King Street
from the 4th Street Muni station.(78K) |
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the precast erectors guys
doing just that.(78K) |
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tower crane above Pac Bell.
Some precast stand supports are set.(59K) |
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the stadium in June.(59K) |  |
Here's a view across the
future playing field. (98K) |
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lunch behind home plate
with Eddy, Alys, Ray, and Emanuel.(59K) |
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Rich doing something.
I think he's trying to weld.(78K) |
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Imprisoned by some of the
miles of rail I'll be installing. (59K)M |
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Ray and me working. Really! (78K)J |  |
Ray and me working again. 78K)J |  |
This is where Joe lives.
He can be very grumpy. (39K)J |
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Connecting the clock tower.(59K) |  |
The clock tower, again. (98K) |  |
Because of safety issues,
some connections were made off of jlg's. (117K) |
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Here's the street side of the
park w/o precast. (20K)J |
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And some precast.(20K)J |  |
And some more....(20K)J |
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And that's about that. (20K)J |  |
some guys setting that precast.(117K) |  |
setting some precast off the
ramp. (117K) |
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Here's the bowl, facing in
the direction of home plate. (59K)J |
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And some installed precast
risers.(59K)J |
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Eddy sitting in the middle,
enjoying the seat while he can. (273K) |
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Some of the rebar going
into the job.(59K)J |
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Some of the rebar behind
the ramp I work on.(39K)J |
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Here's the cement pump.
It's just a nice picture. You can even see the Bay Bridge in the background. (20K)J |
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Taking down the center
tower crane.Wee men in the basket. (59K) |
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Better view of what goes
on. The crawler's doing the work. (78K) |
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You can see some of the
other work going on in S.F. off of the ballpark. Lots of tower cranes in the area.(98K) |
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This here is Margaret. Most
of these next pictures are hers. and they're mostly in chronological order. (59K)M |
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This here's a picture of the
site before they demo-ed the pre-existing structures. (78K)M |
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SME raises some steel. (117K)M |
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The columns of rebar in
January. Nothing' much is there yet and everything's kind of a mess.(137K)M |
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Here's another view. (117K)M |  |
They're erecting the ramp
I'm going to spend so much quality time on. (137K)M |
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2/99--SME's Jeff and
Dave bring on the deck. (98K)M |
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Here's the park from the
east facing the city. (117K) M |
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3/99--the lead infested
yard. I think those big green columns are for supporting the top level of seating.(176K)M |
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flying up the cantilever
trusses. (156K)M |
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setting the truss cross-
bracing(137K)M |
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set and rusting. don't
worry--they'll look nice in time for the first game. (195K)M |
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Eddy on the forklift,
and me trying to get that rail onto the ramp. (156K)M |
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Plumbing up the bents
with chain come-a-longs. (98K)M |
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Connecting the canopy
over the upper seating. May '99(78K)M |
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Rico smoking some steel.
(98K)M |
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Scaling and tying
rebar columns.(117K)M |
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The raising gang on
the roof. (117K)M |
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The ballfield/yard
all full of bents. (At least I think they're called bents.)(137K)M |
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Ray watching Eddy
weld. No wonder he's got headaches! (98K)M |
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It's June and there's
more pre-cast.(98K)M |
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Looking into the
service level from the main level. Welding in pre-cast(98K)M |
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The steel has safety
posts and cable placed before flying it up so that connectors have some- thing to tie off to. "Tie--don't die!" as the SME stickers say...(98K)M |
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The 2nd Street ramp.
The decking is in place so that more steel can be raised above it. (98K)M |
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To the right, a tower
crane. Toward the left, the top of a clock tower. The bents have temporary angles across the tops to support scaffolding for the connectors of the 2nd half of the bents. (98K)M |
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The ball park as seen
from somewhere in the bay. Obviously, from July 2, 1999(117K)M |
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Connecting a cantilever.
Elmer and an inspector talking in the foreground. Omari and Terry on top, I think. I've never seen Terry with a belt on, so I'm not sure it's them. (117K)M |
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Same thing,
different view. (98K)M |
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Connecting the upper
concourse off of JLG's. Can't quite tell who it is. They do good work though. (117K)M |