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Figure 2.3. Looking east to the Port of Oakland’s Fourteenth Street Unit,
1929. Additional transit sheds and warehouses would be added to the
facility in the 1930s, making it the operational center of the Port’s Outer
Harbor Terminal. The World War I‐era Union Construction shipyard
adjoins the site (upper left). The partially filled tidelands in the distance
would be developed in the 1940s as the Oakland Army Base. (Port of
Oakland Archives.)
Figure 2.4. The former Union Construction Company shipyard, built in
1918–19, as it appeared in the late 1930s. The property by then had reverted
to the Port of Oakland, which refurbished the buildings for various other
industrial uses. This property later formed part of the Oakland Army Base.
The large gabled building at the center of the complex, originally a plate
shop and mold loft, became a ship‐repair facility (Building 99). The low
building (far right) was used variously as a garage, mess hall, and
storehouse (Building 88). (Port of Oakland Archives.)
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