About the box: New Meaning to Navy Seals

Curator's Note: As part of extending the "Looking for Loci" exhibit, we've photographed the boxes and are posting them with their stories, adding to them where possible.
Genius Loci: Alameda Point
By Danielle Guidici Wallis & Patrick Wallis

Our Genius Loci is at Alameda Point, formerly the Alameda Naval Air Station.
Active from 1936 through 1997, it is vast, windy and mostly empty. It sits patiently awaiting redevelopment which has yet to happen due to the cost of remediation... it was identified as a superfund cleanup site on July 22, 1999.

Our Loci is just East of the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier that now serves as a military museum. There is a breakwall where folks fish and seals sun bathe on the decrepit docks. Pelicans dive into the waters and snowy egrets wade in the shallows. It is a strangely beautiful place.