Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA
Summary
Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and truck directly to OARB where it was processed and crated in these huge warehouses for shipment overseas.
Survey number: HAER CA-125-I
Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1946 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bechtel-McCone-Parsons Corporation
The Army Port Contractors
MacDonald & Kahn, Inc.
The Utah Construction Company
W.A. Bechtel
Location
West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.), 37.80887, -122.28054
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html