4535 x 3023 px | 38,4 x 25,6 cm | 15,1 x 10,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2014
Lieu:
San Francisco Bay, Richmond, CA, USA
Informations supplémentaires:
The Rosie the Riveter/WWII Homefront National Historic Park is reason enough to visit Richmond. Its Visitor Center occupies what was once the fuel storage building of the vast Ford assembly plant that opened on Richmond’s waterfront in 1931. Closed in the 1950s, derelict for decades, and once slated for demolition, the Albert Kahn-designed brick structure has been rejuvenated and given a new purpose by developer Eddie Orton. In addition to the Visitor Center, the aptly-named Assembly Restaurant features New American cuisine in what was once the plant’s boiler room, and portions of the assembly-line space are leased out to specialty stores. But the pièce de resistance is the Craneway Pavilion, a vast, soaring space fronting the bay with light pouring-in through huge, roll-up glass doors, massive cranes still riding on overhead rails. Copyright Janet and Stuart Wilson, WilsonsTravels Stock, Photo # 78884, www.wilsonstravels.com