I remember this thing from the early 1960s when it was still being used. It is what's left of a conveyer belt system that was used to transport sand and gravel off of barges and load it into trucks then hauled to the job site. It was in use in the 70s or 80s when Intalco expanded their pot line and refining capacity

Much of the sand and gravel came from here on San Juan Island. The barge loading conveyer system was still standing at the east end of Jackson Beach till a number of years ago when they were taken down for scrap steel.

Oh wow! No one out this way could tell me its use. Much of this area is mostly forgotten. The road in here is crumbling and looking akin to some apocalyptic post human times. No care to the road or anything. Only tale of the area is of the house (now foundation) where all the graffiti lives. Supposedly it was abandoned and someone lit it ablaze some years back. A bit further up that road is a farm, and a private park/campground (Owned by Intelco/Alcoa) I had the misfortune of finding out that its not for the public via a patrol security guard that was not particularly friendly. Seriously there were no signs!

way cool and now I have this one up as wall paper...

V.

Oooh, Cool!

This is the fun of knowing the area before ARCO was there and there were still working farms in the area. That area down there belonged to the Audet family that ran and owned the marina there.

I looked on Google maps and found the place we use to live... it's neat you can still see where the house was.

Google maps is quite entertaining really, also certain versions also have a (scroll back) function for looking back in time at historical data however far back it goes. I play on that app routinely. ARCO hmm, now the big Oil refineries out here are BP and Phillips 66.

ARCO was bought by BP and Mobile was bought up by Phillips 66. I remember when it was just Mobile and Intalco out there.

Ahh, that explains things. I knew about some mergers and such, but not whom/what.

This is lovely.