A fenced shipyard of dry docks and a disused crane, and the Innes Avenue house The Last Black Man in San Francisco used as Mont's home.
What Bayview-Hunters Point looks like
runs the length of the district as a two lane commercial strip, with light rail tracks down the median and one and two storey storefronts along both sides. Low industrial sheds and freight sidings back onto the tracks a few blocks east, framed by freeway overpasses near Islais Creek. Buses cross Third Street at and Oakdale Avenue, where low stucco storefronts sit behind awnings and parked delivery vans.
At the point, a fenced expanse of cracked concrete holds two long dry dock basins and a disused gantry crane that still rises over the water. Chain link runs the length of the property, with puddles collecting in the empty dock floors and the bay beyond.
climbs away from the water past small houses and a mural covered retaining wall, with a container ship visible on the bay from partway up the hill. sits on the same hillside, its playground and basketball court looking down over rooftops and low industrial buildings toward the bay.
The stands on Third Street at Newcomb Avenue, its green wood front and arched windows dating from 1888. A few blocks south, a low white stucco church with a freestanding cross tower marks the corner at Mendell Street. On , a pale blue Italianate house keeps its bracketed cornice and arched window hoods above a row of newer stucco fronts. Further south, a two storey Italianate storefront at 4004 Third Street keeps its flat wood front from the 1880s.
Shot in Bayview-Hunters Point
The Last Black Man in San Francisco used a house on Innes Avenue as Mont's home, where Jimmie moves in for part of the film. Its opening sequence was shot inside the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, in front of the shipyard's own fenced grounds. Showtime's Sucker Free City also shot near the old Navy yard, without naming a specific street.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019
Jimmie stays with Mont at a house near this stretch of Innes Avenue for much of the film. A group of neighbourhood regulars who needle the pair gathers on the sidewalk a block away at 801 Innes Avenue. Street View
Mare Island's own dry dock and gantry cranes are the closest match anywhere in the state for Hunters Point's shipyard, both built for the same wartime Navy program. Mare Island's dock is kept as a museum piece with signage and railings, so a frame that avoids those keeps the comparison to the crane and the concrete alone. Try searching shipyard dry dock crane now.
San Pedro's older frame houses climb the hill above the harbor and look down on working cranes, the same relationship Hunters Point's own streets have with its shipyard crane. San Pedro's harbor is far busier with container traffic and a much bigger bridge, so a tighter frame on the houses and a single crane holds the match better than a wide harbor shot. Try searching houses above the harbor now.
