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Feluccas at Fisherman's Wharf at the foot of Union Street, circa 1891 . In 1884, [1] the first state-owned Fisherman's Wharf was built at the foot of Union Street, [2] jutting out from the shore on a north by northeast angle, comprising a long narrow rectangle about 450 feet long and 150 feet wide, with an entrance along the leeward eastern side.
The visitor center, Hyde Street Pier, and Maritime Museum are all situated adjacent to the foot of Hyde Street and at the western end of the Fisherman's Wharf district. The park headquarters and Maritime Research Center are located in Fort Mason, some 10 minutes walk to the west of the other sites.
Pier 41 - A ferry terminal on Fisherman's Wharf, home to the Blue & Gold Fleet; Pier 43 - Pier 43 Photos on the Commons; Pier 43 1/2 - Home to the Red & White Fleet; Pier 45 - Home to museum ships; Past the numbered piers, there are other well-known piers past Pier 45 at the western end of Fisherman's Wharf. Hyde Street Pier; Municipal Pier
The Pier 43 Ferry Arch is an historic ferry arch at Pier 43 in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, in the U.S. state of California. [1] Its headhouse, a decorated hoisting tower for loading and unloading rail cars on and off ferries, was built in 1914 to serve the Belt Railroad. The wood pier was replaced in 1996.
A proposed third phase would build an extension beyond Chinatown, including new stations at Washington Square in North Beach and Fisherman's Wharf. In preparation, the tunnels were bored past Chinatown station, and the tunnel boring machines were extracted from the intersection of Powell and Columbus, near Washington Square. [95] [96]
From left to right: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Downtown San Francisco, Russian Hill and Aquatic Park Historic District Front of the Maritime Museum
Fisherman's Wharf in 2009. San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf gets its name and neighborhood characteristics from the city's early days of the mid to later 1800s when Italian immigrant fishermen came to the city by the bay to take advantage of the influx of population due to the gold rush.
The Embarcadero continues north past the Ferry Building at Market Street, Pier 39, and Fisherman's Wharf, before ending at Pier 45. A section of The Embarcadero which ran between Folsom Street and Drumm Street was formerly known as East Street. For three decades, until it was torn down in 1991, the Embarcadero Freeway dominated the area.