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Speculation on TAR16 *no wish-lists please*
Plaidmoon:
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--- Quote from: apskip on December 21, 2009, 08:10:37 AM ---If Hunters Point was used, there are 2 massive structures in that area, Candlestick Park (current home of the SF 49ers football team and site of the famous Earthquake Game during the 1989 World Series) and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
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Candlestick was brought up by Boingo, it might be a good choice. I love the shipyard idea as well.
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I'm almost wondering if someone is pulling your leg. I'm kind of surprised about Hunter's Point being involved. It's reputation is that it's the most ghetto-like part of San Francisco. I believe it is starting to be gentrified in recent years, so it's probably improving. I think you've covered the likeliest locations in that area. I'm fairly sure Candlestick Park was available since the 49ers played in Philadelphia yesterday. As for the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, it's been closed for decades and I'm not sure anything much has ever been done with it. It might offer a gritty type of location sort of like the start at the Los Angeles River in TAR 15.
Now that I think about it, there is an old auditorium roughly in that area, the Cow Palace, just across the border in Daly City. Also a couple of parks, McLaren Park and Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, but I don't know much about them.
One thing the Hunter's Point locations have is that they should allow for good isolation and security.
Plaidmoon
puddin:
That's been brought up as well, maybe the general area of Hunters Point? Could have been used as a reference as in area only? I'm not familiar with San Fran. I like the isolation point.
--- Quote from: Plaidmoon2 on December 21, 2009, 08:47:08 AM ---
I'm almost wondering if someone is pulling your leg. I'm kind of surprised about Hunter's Point being involved. It's reputation is that it's the most ghetto-like part of San Francisco. I believe it is starting to be gentrified in recent years, so it's probably improving. I think you've covered the likeliest locations in that area. I'm fairly sure Candlestick Park was available since the 49ers played in Philadelphia yesterday. As for the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, it's been closed for decades and I'm not sure anything much has ever been done with it. It might offer a gritty type of location sort of like the start at the Los Angeles River in TAR 15.
Now that I think about it, there is an old auditorium roughly in that area, the Cow Palace, just across the border in Daly City. Also a couple of parks, McLaren Park and Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, but I don't know much about them.
One thing the Hunter's Point locations have is that they should allow for good isolation and security.
Plaidmoon
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Plaidmoon:
I did do a search on McLaren Park. It's the second largest park in San Francisco at 317 acres, so it's reasonably good sized. I saw pictures of a pretty little lake and a striking 700 seat amphitheater, the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, so it has possibilities. It also has a 9 hole golf course, for what it's worth. I'd post the pictures, but they were just thumbnails. I'm out of time for further searching this morning, so I'll leave it for others to do more digging if so inclined.
Plaidmoon
Plaidmoon:
--- Quote from: puddin on December 21, 2009, 08:54:22 AM ---That's been brought up as well, maybe the general area of Hunters Point? Could have been used as a reference as in area only? I'm not familiar with San Fran. I like the isolation point.
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The idea of Hunter's Point has me scratching my head. All the famous and touristy stuff is mainly in the northern and western part of the city. The southern and particularly the southeastern area where Hunter's Point is are just neighborhoods, poor neighborhoods at that. There's nothing terribly interesting there. At least not up until I left the area in the late 1990s. I actually commuted to school about a mile or two from Hunter's Point for a couple of years back in the 1980s and not once did anybody ever suggest a reason for going over to Hunters Point. It's like the old saying about Oakland. There's no there there.
Plaidmoon
topaz:
in my theory, I think these will be the places and route legs for TAR 16 according to some speculations and reports:
starting point: Los Angeles, USA
Leg 1: Puerto Varas, Chile - 1st non-elimination leg
Leg 2: Puerto Montt, Chile - *
Leg 3: Bariloche, Argentina - *
Leg 4: somewhere in Germany - a blind U-turn to be installed
Leg 5/6: probably somewhere in Europe or a Middle Eastern countries which will be the 1st time to be feature in TAR like Latvia, Slovakia, Moldavia, Slovenia, Belarus, Macedonia, Malta, Cyprus, Qatar, Bahrain and JORDAN. - 2nd non-elimination leg
Leg 7: Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia
Leg 8: Singapore
Leg 9: Brunei or Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Leg 10: Shanghai, China - 3rd non-elimination leg and 2nd U-turn to be installed
Leg 11: Shanghai, China
Final leg: San Francisco, USA
* = means there might be a Switchback road block task.
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