Warehouses Of World War II Era Are To Be Dismantled
The price for modernization and modern infrastructure is being paid by one of the gigantic wooden warehouses that were made operational during the World War II as it was dismantled to make space for new intermodal rail terminal at the Port of Oakland and development area by the city of Oakland.
The warehouse one of the 800 series as huge to accommodate an aircraft carrier was the part of under construction Oakland Army Base and immediately put into the service when Japanese Bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The warehouse geared out of service and closed down on September 1999. The warehouse located near rail and shipping lanes was constructed to support Army headquarters at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
The warehouse was the last US soil for thousand of troops who fought in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. At the place, it soon developed into Camp John T. Knight Army Base with administrative offices, barracks, dinning hall, officers’ club, bowling alley and a lot more. Dozens of other buildings that made up the Camp John T. Knight Army Base - administration offices, barracks, dining hall, officers’ club, bowling alley, gymnasium, mail center, library, dispensary and theater among them - have been torn down.
The job for dismantling the 800 – series was handed over to Zaccor Companies of Alameda who won the contract bid of $ 585, 000 for demolishing task. The company quite experienced in the dismantling job needs to take care of ware housing procedures as it is made of untreated and unpainted old-growth redwood and Douglas fir.
After the complete dismantling the thus restored raw stuff from the ware house needs to salvaged and recycled that is an expensive and time taken process, in which structures are segregated apart nail by nail, bolt by bolt so the material is not damaged anyway. The firm for the purpose has negotiated with Vintage Lumber Works and other companies to arrange sell out the scrap as collected from the dismantling of Warehouse.
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