On Keyes Avenue north of Sal Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Presidio began expanding just before the United States entered World War II. Buildings 38 and 39 were built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1940 to provide housing and to create employment during the Great Depression. Each . . . — — Map (db m176597) HM
Near Taylor Road north of Sheridan Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Building 116 was built in 1885 by Angelo Berretta, the post sutler, as his home. The sutler was a civilian merchant who sold tobacco, whiskey, beer, playing cards, newspapers, civilian clothing and other items not supplied by the Quartermaster . . . — — Map (db m176595) HM
On Presidio Boulevard at Funston Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Presidio Boulevard.
… "married officers of the post are quartered in the row of trim brown cottages on the brow of the eastern slope, and fronting along the road leading up from the main entrance [of Presidio Boulevard]. These pretty houses are surrounded by grounds . . . — — Map (db m176599) HM
The Presidio’s Ordoñez gun was originally mounted in a Spanish coastal fort at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Undamaged during the Spanish American War, the gun was captured by Filipino nationalists, who were known as “Insurrectos” by the occupying . . . — — Map (db m12619) HM
On April 21, 1898, the United States declared war against Spain. The immediate causes were America’s support of Cuba’s ongoing struggle against Spanish rule and the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. This was the first . . . — — Map (db m48530) HM
"The Canal means more to the West Coast of America than to any other part of this country or any other part of the world... and San Francisco probably represents the whole West Coast."
President Taft, 1911.
Imagine a beautiful . . . — — Map (db m191088) HM
Near Bay Street near Palace Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Walk through the grounds of the Palace of Fine Arts and notice how vistas change before your eyes. As vegetation frames and softens the lines of the architecture, the architecture in turn becomes a picture frame, highlighting views of the lush . . . — — Map (db m102290) HM
On Laguna Street at Marina Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Laguna Street.
First fortified by the Spanish in 1797, this bluff above the bay was re-armed by the U.S. Army in 1864. The post remained active through the Civil War, western Indian Wars, and conflicts abroad, beginning with the Spanish-American War in 1898. . . . — — Map (db m132330) HM
On Yacht Road near Old Mason Street, on the left when traveling north.
Lincoln Beachey was born in San Francisco and called the city “home” all his short life. His aerial adventures started at age 18, flying dirigibles. Beachey made the world’s first air mail delivery during an air show in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. . . . — — Map (db m81561) HM
On Marina Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
There are two markers mounted on opposite sides of the flagpole base in the Marina Green
This plaque marks the site of the
Marina Air Field
The first terminus of the
United States Post Office Dept.
Trans-Continental
Air . . . — — Map (db m70028) HM
Near Baker Street north of Beach Street, on the right when traveling south.
"Therefore, let us preserve our Palace of Fine Arts as long as possible, six months, six years, or any length of time — maybe someday it can be made permanent…” Willis Polk, 1915
It is difficult to contemplate San . . . — — Map (db m131097) HM
On Bay Street near Palace Drive, on the right when traveling west.
The lagoon fronting the Palace of Fine Arts is a relic of San Francisco's early landscape. It was once part of a slough on a tidal wetland stretching from present-day Divisadero Street well into the Presidio. Salt water from the San Francisco Bay . . . — — Map (db m102286) HM
Near Lyon Street near Palace Drive when traveling south.
"The coloring is so soft and wonderful. Blues and reds and greens and yellows and browns and grays are all blended into one perfect whole… It is fairyland." Laura Ingalls Wilder, West from Home.
The Palace of Fine Arts is . . . — — Map (db m131099) HM
On Randolph Street near Head Street, on the right when traveling east.
On August 16, 1878, Mr. J. Granville contracted with the Spring Valley Water Works to provide water for his family, a lodger, a cow, and irrigation; his home was duly recorded as containing 500 sq. ft. In May of 1883, the water line water line was . . . — — Map (db m102431) HM
On 5th Street near Mission Street, on the right when traveling east.
On May 12, 1848 Samuel Brannan rode through the streets of San Francisco waving a bottle of gold and yelling, “Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!” Struck with gold fever, almost every resident headed for the foothills, beginning the greatest . . . — — Map (db m71899) HM
Until 1864, travel between San Francisco and San Jose was by stagecoach or steamship, a time-consuming and expensive trip. After three failed attempts to organize a railroad, construction began in May 1861 on the 49-mile San Francisco & San Jose . . . — — Map (db m162760) HM
On King Street / The Embarcadero near 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
For the last 5,000 years this particular site served as a vantage point to the southeast, overlooking an ancient salt water bay fed by fresh water streams.
Standing on this bluff three to four hundred years ago, looking southeast, you would have . . . — — Map (db m93013) HM
Operation of the Fourth Street Bridge
The Peter R. Maloney Bridge, otherwise known as the Fourth Street Bridge, opened in 1917 after a two-year period of construction. Joseph B. Strauss, the leading designer of bascule bridges in the . . . — — Map (db m162761) HM
On King Street near 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south.
This marker stretches between 3rd and 4th Streets on the east side of King Street. At opposite ends are two identical Ramaytush plaques. In between are 104 mini-plaques, in two parallel rows, each with a known word in the Ramaytush language. . . . — — Map (db m144410) HM
On Mission Street at 15th Street, on the right when traveling south on Mission Street.
The Building
Although the building was quickly constructed after the 1906 earthquake, the design does not forgo aesthetics. The post-quake urgency to rebuild is reflected in the building's design; its unusual sheet metal siding was . . . — — Map (db m163003) HM
En 1970, Maxime Le Forestier s'est inspiré
de cette maison bleue pour l'écriture d'un
de ses tout premiers succès "San Francisco"
"C'est une maison bleue adossée à la colline..."
Plaque offerte par le Consulat Général de . . . — — Map (db m186366) HM
On Mission Street at 13th Street, on the right when traveling south on Mission Street.
Woodward's Gardens occupied the block bounded
by Mission, Duboce, Valencia and 14th Streets,
with the main entrance on Mission Street.
R.B. Woodward opened his gardens to the public
in 1866, as an amusement park catering to all
tastes. It was . . . — — Map (db m162992) HM
On Church Street at 20th Street, on the right when traveling north on Church Street.
Though the water mains were broken and dry on April 18, 1906 yet from this GREENBERG hydrant on the following night there came a stream of water allowing the firemen to save the Mission District.
DEDICATED to Chief Dennis Sullivan and the men . . . — — Map (db m120358) HM
On 19th Street at Lexington Street, on the right when traveling west on 19th Street.
Here marks the site of the Lexington Club,
"your friendly neighborhood dyke bar" where "every night is ladies' night",
which cultivated a close knit community
among San Francisco's LGBTQ community
over the course of two decades and touched
many . . . — — Map (db m145200) HM
On Dolores Street north of Chula Lane, on the right when traveling south.
This plaque is placed on the 250th anniversary of the birth of California’s apostle, Padre Junípero Serra, O.F.M. to mark the northern terminus of El Camino Real as Padre Serra knew it and helped to blaze it.
1713 - November 24 - 1963 . . . — — Map (db m32169) HM
On 16th Street at Guerrero Street, on the left when traveling east on 16th Street.
This is the second oldest known continually operating Saloon location in San Francisco and a centerpiece of the Mission Dolores Neighborhood. On this site Francis Daneal's "bar-room" was listed in the 1858 edition of the San Francisco Registry. . . . — — Map (db m110393) HM
Near Dolores Street near 16th Street, on the right when traveling south.
Founder of this Mission of San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) distinguished son of Spain; missionary in the Sierra Gorda, Lower California and at Carmel; president of Missions in Mexico and California; zealous missionary; able administrator; . . . — — Map (db m72508) HM
Near Dolores Street near 16th Street, on the right when traveling south.
This ceramic mural is the work of Guillermo Granizo, a native San Francisco Artist. Shortly after Guillermo’s birth in 1923 the Granizo Family moved to Nicaragua for a period of eleven years. The family then returned to San Francisco. Extensive . . . — — Map (db m72524) HM
On Dolores Street near 16th Street, on the right when traveling south.
La Paz y Bien -- Peace and Goodness
Founded in 1776 by Fray Francisco Palou, OFM and built by people of the Ohlone nation in the village of Chutchui 1788-1791.
To them we pay homage as the founders and first builders of this community and . . . — — Map (db m72507) HM
On Dolores Street at 19th Street, on the right when traveling south on Dolores Street.
On the early morning of Sunday September 16th.; A.D. 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the bell of his church in the town of Dolores, in the now state of Guanajuato, calling the people to mass and to bear arms against the . . . — — Map (db m162986) HM
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Father of Mexican Independence
1753-1811
The liberation of Mexico, after 300 years of domination by Spain, started on September 16, 1810, in the town of Dolores in what is now the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. . . . — — Map (db m120367) HM
On June 29, 1776, Father Francisco Palou, a member of the Anza Expedition, had a brushwood shelter here on the edge of a now vanished lake, Lago de los Dolores (Lake of the Sorrows), and
offered the first mass. The first mission was a log . . . — — Map (db m32067) HM
On 16th Street near Albion Street, on the right when traveling north.
We lived in harmony with the planet for thousands of years. We respected the earth and we were thankful for all the gifts it gave us.
With the invasion of outsiders our lives were shattered. We were imprisoned, forced into slave labor and . . . — — Map (db m72504) HM
Frank J. Portman, president of the Frank Portman Company and our Restoration Project contractor was called to God one week before our celebration to mark the completion of the Old Mission Dolores Restoration Project. From the inception of the . . . — — Map (db m72505) HM
On Mission Street at Harrington Street, on the right when traveling south on Mission Street.
"My grandmother listened to country,
my mother listened to opera,
my father was a musician,
I was in the middle of music"
Globally adored and respected musician and frontman for
the iconic band, the Grateful Dead, Jerry lived with . . . — — Map (db m186733) HM
On California Street east of Jones Street, on the left when traveling east.
At this location, "1150" California Street, now the site of the Choir, stood William H. Crocker's Queen Anne style mansion (1888). The Deuxieme Empire-Italian Villa style mansion (1877) of his father, Charles Crocker, was at the N.W. corner of . . . — — Map (db m63582) HM
Huntington Park
On this site in 1872, General David D. Colton, a railroad attorney, built one of the most elaborate residences ever seen in San Francisco. The classic white wooden mansion featured an entry flight of marble steps leading to a . . . — — Map (db m63532) HM
Near Mason Street (Tony Bennett Way) at California Street, on the right when traveling east.
Tony Bennett, the award-winning musician whose career spans over six decades,
performed and introduced the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
in the famed Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel in December 1961.
Mr. Bennett has been one of . . . — — Map (db m175153) HM
On California Street near Mason Street, on the left when traveling west.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel was conceived, financed and built by Comstock Lode mining engineer George D. Smith who operated it from its opening in December 1926 through January 1962. He directed the evolution of the hotel from a semi-residential to a . . . — — Map (db m71456) HM
On Bush Street at Stockton Street, on the left when traveling east on Bush Street.
Lodged at 608 Bush Street, December 1879 - March 1880, and there wrote essays, poems autobiography and fiction.
Plaque placed by admirers of the author in cooperation with the California Historical Society.
July 26, 1972 — — Map (db m18388) HM
On California Street near Mason Street, on the left when traveling west.
In February 1893, Mr. Edward F. Searles donated the Hopkins Mansion to the University of California in trust for the San Francisco Art Institute for the “instruction in and illustration of the fine arts, music and literature,” and as . . . — — Map (db m143440) HM
On Jersey Street at Noe Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Jersey Street.
Built by developer C. More Hare in 1888, this house was one of
four constructed on McHutchison Creek, now Jersey Street. In
122 it has had but eight owners. The early San Francisco
years
merchant prince, Israel Kaufman, grandfather of the . . . — — Map (db m186653) HM
On Gold Street east of Montgomery Street, on the left when traveling east.
Jackson Square
Historic District
Has been place on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior
1971 — — Map (db m58549) HM
Near Columbus Avenue at Kearny Street, on the right when traveling south.
The historic
Sentinel Building
has been the home of American Zoetrope since 1971. We have written, edited, and sound mixed many of our films here including Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Black Stallion and Rumble . . . — — Map (db m71451) HM
On Kearny Street at Columbus Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Kearny Street.
From the mid-1880s onward, the diagonally cut block
bounded by Broadway, Kearny, and Columbus came
to be known tocally as the "Devil's Acre,” a place
described by the San Francisco Call in 1886 as "the
resort and abiding place of . . . — — Map (db m152779) HM
Dirk Dirksen (1937-2006), ringmaster of the circus of the creatively inspired and the willfully deranged, presided as Pope of Punk over nightly excursions in living theater on the premises 1974-1984 at Ness Aquino's Mabuhay Gardens, previously a . . . — — Map (db m162582) HM
Near Mason Street at Lombard Street, on the right when traveling north.
Born in San Francisco where he played at
Galileo High School. Signed by the Seals in
1937. Joined the Boston Red Sox in 1940 where
he played 11 seasons interrupted by 3 years
of military service. Outstanding outfielder
with great arm. Lifetime . . . — — Map (db m162565) HM
On Broadway at Kearny, on the right when traveling west on Broadway.
"Welcome to the world-famous Finocchio's, where the most beautiful women onstage are men." Opened in 1936, Finocchio's cabaret featured female impersonators, both gay and straight, performing in, elaborateshows that drew in sailors and tourists . . . — — Map (db m116050) HM
On Montgomery Street at Columbus Avenue on Montgomery Street.
In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.
State Registered Landmark . . . — — Map (db m40514) HM
Constructed in 1858, this graceful brick building played an important role in the financial and entrepreneurial development of frontier San Francisco. From his offices in this building, William M. Lent, President of the Savage Mining Company, . . . — — Map (db m58395) HM
On Jackson Street at Hotaling Place on Jackson Street.
Built in 1866 and occupied by A.P. Hotaling & Co., this building housed the largest liquor repository on the West Coast. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire due to a mile long fire hose laid from Fisherman's Wharf over Telegraph Hill by the . . . — — Map (db m40165) HM
On Broadway at Columbus Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Broadway.
In 1899 Andrea Sbarboro incorporated the
Italian American Bank, the second bank in San Francisco
to be owned and operated by and for Italians.
Sbarboro modeled the bank after cooperative banks
he had seen in Philadelphia, which operated . . . — — Map (db m153016) HM
Near Mason Street at Lombard Street, on the right when traveling north.
San Francisco Seals 1932-36
New York Yankees 1936-51
One of the greatest outfielders of modern baseball
"Yankee Clipper" began his career with San Francisco
Seals in 1932. Hit safely in 61 consecutive games
setting a Pacific Coast Record. . . . — — Map (db m162580) HM
Juana Briones, born in Hispanic California, was a preeminent woman of her time. In the 1830s and 1840s she transformed an isolated cove in the then Mexican hamlet of Yerba Buena into her rancho. At the site of this park she raised cattle and grew . . . — — Map (db m143437) HM
The area bounded by Montgomery, Pacific, Jackson and Kearny streets was known as “Chilecito” or “Little Chile” & was established during the gold rush period by Chilean settlers. — — Map (db m58384) HM
On Kearny Street near Broadway, on the right when traveling north.
This is the site of Lupo’s Restaurant which introduced Pizza to the West coast in 1935.
The original brick oven, fired by oakwood, is still in use here at Tommaso’s — — Map (db m73069) HM
Originally opened in 1934, Mona's Club moved to 440 Broadway in 1939 and is credited with being San Francisco's first openly lesbian club. The venue featured female entertainers dressed as men, an inverse to the transgender theme of nearby . . . — — Map (db m116012) HM
Bordering the infamous 19th century Barbary Coast
neighborhood of Sydney Town (bound by Kearny,
Sansome, Green and Broadway), these steps were
renamed in honor of Italian American modernist
jeweler and sculptor Peter Macchiarini in . . . — — Map (db m153022) HM
On Jackson Street at Montgomery Street on Jackson Street.
William Tecumseh Sherman established the branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco in 1853. He settled the firm in their own building on the northeast corner of Jackson and Montgomery Streets in the spring of 1854. Sherman successfully . . . — — Map (db m33402) HM
On Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue on Vallejo Street.
Founded June 17, 1849
Pro-cathedral 1852-54
Present church dedicated March 17, 1860
First parish church in San Francisco. In 1850 the first parochial school in California was established here, and the first ordination to the priesthood was . . . — — Map (db m58386) HM
On Jackson Street at Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling east on Jackson Street.
On this site in the mid-1850's Francois L.A. Pioche built an office building which housed the banking firm of Pioche et Bayerque, one of the most important financial institutions in the West during the two decades after the Gold Rush. The financing . . . — — Map (db m40508) HM
For 30 years (1933-1963) The Black Cat Café was at the heart of the City’s Bohemian life – providing a welcoming saloon for artists, gay people and North Beach characters, often entertained by the operatic voice and bawdy humor of Jose Sarria, . . . — — Map (db m98102) HM
On Columbus Avenue at Broadway Street, on the right when traveling north on Columbus Avenue.
The birthplace of the world’s first topless & bottomless entertainment.
Topless • June 19, 1964
Bottomless • September 3, 1969
Starring Ms. Carol Doda
San Francisco, California — — Map (db m9238) HM
Opened in 1957, the Jazz Workshop at 473 Broadway
was one of the premier clubs to hear live jazz in
San Francisco from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.
In 1959, saxophonist Julian Edwin "Cannonball"
Adderley helped put the Broadway jazz club on . . . — — Map (db m152646) HM
On Kearny Street north of Columbus Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Opened in 1976, the Lusty Lady started out as a private-booth theatre showing 16mm adult films. By 1983, the
theater had incorporated live performances into the mix,
a move that would engender a landmark workers' rights
win just thirteen years . . . — — Map (db m152594) HM
On Broadway at Romolo Place, on the right when traveling west on Broadway.
Constructed at the foot of Telegraph Hill in 1851, the Old Broadway Jail was San Francisco's first real prison, a three-story brick fortress consisting of 60 cells that could house up to 200 prisoners. In 1856, the jail saw hundreds of members of . . . — — Map (db m116076) HM
On Grant Avenue at Fresno Street, on the right when traveling north on Grant Avenue.
Here before you is the oldest saloon in San Francisco. Alsatian immigrant Ferdinand E. Wagner ran a fruit store in this building from 1858 to 1859, later transforming it into “Wagner’s Beer Hall” in 1860. Taking over for his father in 1869, Edward . . . — — Map (db m81815) HM
On this site the work of
The Salvation Army
on the Pacific Coast
was started by Major Alfred Wells
July 22nd, 1883
San Francisco
July 21st, 1939 — — Map (db m40816) HM
On Columbus Avenue north of Vallejo Street, on the right when traveling north.
San Francisco’s first restaurant to celebrate the euphoria of garlic.
Ancient Roman soldiers dubbed the pungent herb garlic “the stinking rose”. They believed garlic made them extremely strong and extra virile and rubbed their bodies with garlic . . . — — Map (db m58492) HM
On Columbus Avenue north of Vallejo Street, on the right when traveling north.
The U.S. Restaurant has been part of North Beach
since the late 1890s. U.S. stands for Unione
Sportiva which was the collection of Italian athletic
clubs that existed in San Francisco at that time.
The restaurant operated on the corner of . . . — — Map (db m177071) HM
Near Baker Street just south of Fulton Street, on the right when traveling south.
On September 25, 1886, the Order of the Native Daughters of the Golden West was organized
by Lily O. Reichling-Dyer in Jackson, California. The purpose of the Order is to perpetuate the
principles of love of home, devotion to the flag, . . . — — Map (db m231968) HM
On Baker Street near Fulton Street, on the left when traveling north.
The Order of the Native Daughters of the Golden West was founded on September 25, 1886. In 1899, a Home was established providing our members with "...rest, serenity and an abiding place of affection..."
This structure is our fourth Home in . . . — — Map (db m143240) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Alcatraz began as a U.S. Army fort, designed to defend San Francisco Bay against enemy attack. At the height of the Civil War, the fortified island held over 100 heavy cannon. The largest of these were the sleek “Rodman” guns on iron carriages. The . . . — — Map (db m228682) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Alcatraz began as a U.S. Army fort, designed to defend San Francisco Bay against enemy attack.
At the height of the Civil War, the fortified island held over 100 heavy cannon. The largest of these were sleek “Rodman” guns on iron carriages. . . . — — Map (db m228587) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Military Outcasts & Prisoners of War
Prisoners were kept at the Pacific Branch, U.S. Military Prison/Disciplinary Barracks from 1861 to 1934. The U.S. Army sent its own troublesome soldiers – thieves, drunks, and deserters – to . . . — — Map (db m228927) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1905, the Army used inmate labor to add three concrete stories on top of the original dock-level brick barracks built in the 1860s. The finished structure, known as Building 64, served as quarters for soldiers assigned to prison guard duty. In . . . — — Map (db m228675) HM
On The Embarcadero at Kearny Street, on the right when traveling north on The Embarcadero.
In the 1880s, Captain Healy sailed the 198-foot revenue cutter Bear from San Francisco to the northernmost Alaskan ports, carrying mail, medicine, and food for ice-in, stranded whalers. The all-wooden, steam-driven Bear served as . . . — — Map (db m231003) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
An Evolving Prison System
World history is replete with forms of corporal punishment such as maiming and even death for slight infractions of the law. In the late 1700s, the United States began to adopt a system based on the Quaker philosophy . . . — — Map (db m228581) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Home and Community
The federal government provided waterfront housing for Alcatraz staff and their spouses. Gardens and fences marked the boundary of family life on the island, and children enjoyed a normal upbringing at a safe distance from . . . — — Map (db m228565) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Alcatraz Gardens
Alcatraz would be a barren rock were it not for human presence. Despite the lack of soil and water, people have planted and maintained gardens on The Rock for 150 years. In the nineteenth century, the army imported soil to . . . — — Map (db m228554) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Built in 1857, the Guardhouse is the oldest building on the island. The first line of defense against enemy landing parties, it could only be entered by crossing a drawbridge over a 15-foot deep dry moat. Two gun ports for 24-pound howitzers flanked . . . — — Map (db m228678) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Work was a privilege on Alcatraz, and most inmates labored five days a week at menial jobs such as making military uniforms and refinishing furniture. Convicts worked in two large factory buildings separated from the rest of the island by double . . . — — Map (db m228605) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
A Navigable Bay
During the Gold Rush, rock outcrops in San Francisco Bay posed hazardous obstacles for ships entering the harbor. To protect them, the government erected a lighthouse on Alcatraz, and hired lighthouse keepers to alert and guide . . . — — Map (db m228576) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1907, the War Department drew up plans for a new prison building that could house up to 600 Army prisoners. When finished in 1912, the cellhouse was reportedly the largest steel-reinforced concrete building in the world.
Unskilled Army inmates . . . — — Map (db m228663) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The small building on top of the Guardhouse and Sallyport was built by the Army in 1917. Designed in the Mission Revival style, the schoolhouse originally held a shoe repair shop and hat factory. Later, it served as a classroom where Army prisoners . . . — — Map (db m228681) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Natural & Cultural Resources
The National Park Service (NPS) assumed responsibility for managing Alcatraz Island in 1972 when it was added to the newly created Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The NPS’ continuing policy of protecting the . . . — — Map (db m228684) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
Most of the penitentiary staff, along with their wives and children, lived on Alcatraz. Living quarters included an aging army barracks overlooking the dock, small cottages, and modern apartment houses built in 1940 with spectacular views of the . . . — — Map (db m228670) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The cannon in front of you is a replica 10-inch Rodman cannon, a typical Alcatraz artillery piece of the 1860s. An actual Rodman gun and carriage was aimed, loaded and fired by a crew of eight to ten soldiers. The large wheels at the rear allowed . . . — — Map (db m228590) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The original dock was completed in 1854, and has been modified and enlarged several times since then. The large four-story building immediately behind the dock was once a military barracks. Its ground floor was built between 1865 and 1867. Designed . . . — — Map (db m228661) HM
On The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The original dock was completed in 1854, and has been modified and enlarged several times since then. The large four-story building immediately behind the dock was once a military barracks. Its ground floor was built between 1865 and 1867. Designed . . . — — Map (db m228677) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Alcatraz Post Exchange (PX), or “Soldiers Clubhouse,” built in 1910, was the local general store, a place for soldiers and their families to buy food and personal goods. When Alcatraz became a federal prison in 1934, the PX was converted into a . . . — — Map (db m228599) HM
Near The Embarcadero south of Bay Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Warden’s house commanded the summit of the island. An impressive Mission Revival-style home, it had seventeen large rooms with sweeping views of the Golden Gate and San Francisco. Built in 1921, it was originally the residence of the military . . . — — Map (db m228667) HM
On Battery Street south of Green Street, on the right when traveling south.
The Northeast Waterfront Historic District includes commercial warehouse
buildings from nearly every decade of San Francisco's significant maritime
history. Buildings within the District range from early clipper ship warehouses
dating to the . . . — — Map (db m191466) HM
Near The Embarcadero at Beach Street, on the right when traveling north.
Until the 1900’s, San Francisco’s fishing fleet was sail-powered, and fisherman guided each other through the fog by singing opera. Today, their great-great grandsons use high=speed diesel-powered boats with two-way radios and sonar fish finders. . . . — — Map (db m231004) HM
On The Embarcadero North south of Broadway, on the right when traveling north.
Side 1:
I have heard that cry: that once heard can never be forgotten,
“Man overboard!”
I remember men lost from my ship, far out in the mid-ocean,
On dark midnights.
I remember how we used to stand,
Gathered under the mizzen . . . — — Map (db m200533) HM
Near Sansome Street at The Embarcadero, on the left when traveling south.
Construction began in 1889 for San Francisco’s harbor Belt Line Railroad, a terminal switching railroad with locomotives dedicated to moving boxcars and flat cars directly alongside cargo vessels. Opening in 1896 to serve the warehouse and shipping . . . — — Map (db m70844) HM
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