Deteriorating restroom inside the abandoned Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, a Cold War communications outpost.
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The entrance to the Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, a communications outpost for submarine actvities during the Cold War.
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Rough & Ready Island in Stockton, California served as a major communications outpost for submarine activities in the Pacific during the Cold War. It opened in 1944 and closed in 1996 during the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
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Inside a moldy, damp hotel room at the Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, an Inn designed to house the officers, families and visitors to the island. In this particular room, the moldy mattress was hit with a beam of light from the window, causing the mattress to steam and the room to smell like a boiling pot of moldy water.
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Men's restroom inside the Heritage Inn at Rough and Ready Island in Stockton, CA.
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The Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island.
Rough & Ready Island went into operation beginning in 1944. It was also known as NSAS (Naval Supply Annex Stockton), a Navy supply depot and disposal facility that was built as an auxilary location to the Oakland Navy Depot.
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Between 1944 and 1965, the Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, an auxilary location to the Oakland Navy Depot, was built to house officers, their families, and visitors.
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Inside the auditorium of the former Heritage Inn on Rough & Ready Island.
Stockton's Rough and Ready Island went into operation in the early 1940's as an auxilary depot to the Navy Depot in Oakland. A few years later, the Heritage Inn was built to house the officers, families and visitors to the island.