This morning San Francisco’s Department of Public Works, along with a team of volunteers from Green Connect and San Francisco Community Clean Team painted over the popular graffiti and street art at Warm Water Cove aka Toxic Tire Beach in Dogpatch near 3rd and 24th Streets. All that is left now is a dark green wall.
Dav Yaginuma, who was there when it all went down, has a write-up on the situation, along with photos he shot of them destroying the public art.
As Dav notes, this location has been home to many events in the San Francisco art scene, including the La Contessa Burial at Sea earlier this year as well as legendary Popcorn Anti-Theater performances, just to name a few. Dive Bar even had their Tasting Labs event there a couple of years ago.
Here’s more coverage from Chicken John, SFist, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Graffiti Archaeology News is keeping an updated list of blogs and media covering this story.
Dav has started a Warm Water Cove discussion group to help address this situation.
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There was this beautiful piece right off 280 at 19th avenue, on this wall to the east; great big beautiful tag. It’s brown now. Thanks gooodness for SF DPW.
I think the way to look at this is that the city is doing its part in the public art process, of clearing out the old and making room for the new.
-danny
straight up tragedy.