TEPCO Beach, as we call it, has shards of beautiful old porcelain and pottery that were made by the Technical Porcelain and Chinaware Company. The factory in El Cerrito would eventually close in 1968 after Pagliero's death but its memory continues through discarded remnants at Point Isabel.
If you walk throughout Point Isabel, you'll find a lot of this stuff buried in the dirt. The history here is tangible, showing how local industry shaped the beach and the area itself.
Someone in passing said, 'Have you ever been to TEPCO Beach?' And I said no. So, we came here. The porcelain shards tell a story of the past.
There's going to be breakage, there's going to be misfirings of some kind, bad glazings. Those things aren't marketable, and they just get tossed, now part of this unique beach.
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