Castro Point is a cape in western

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History

Castro Point was once the east shore landing for the Richmond-San Rafael Car and Passenger Ferry that crossed the

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. It was also the western terminal for the

East Shore and Suburban Railway The Eastshore and Suburban Railway (E&SR) was a formerly independent unit of the historic San Francisco Bay Area Key System which ran streetcar trains in Richmond, California, San Pablo, and El Cerrito. There were several lines with terminals ...

connecting trains from Downtown Richmond and

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.Changes in the Richmond Waterfront
access date 25-02-2009 The cape is the best launching spot for viewing the seals on the

Castro Rocks The Castro Rocks are several rocks in Richmond, California, protruding from the waters in San Francisco Bay between Castro Point and Red Rock Island. The rocks lie almost directly under the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (Interstate 580 (California), ...

underneath the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and the cape is largely located in

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in addition to a

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maintenance facility owned by the state of California. Part of the movie ''

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'' was filmed here. Scenes 31-36 were mostly filmed at and around Pier 54 in San Francisco, and scene 34 ("Not enough experience", where Dirty Harry and the rookie cop were on motorcycles jumping aircraft carriers) was filmed at Castro Point with the San Rafael Bridge in the background. Only remnants of the piers that the old carriers were docked to still remain. The carriers were the escort carriers USS Badoeng Strait and the

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Notes

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