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
When Pier 39 opened
exactly on October 4,
1978, just as developer
Warren Simmons had
planned months before
construction had even
begun, it was the result
of determination,pride
and tremendous effort
by almost everyone
concerned.
For . . . — — Map (db m175690) HM
On this site, the famous “49 Fourth Street” location of the United States Selective Service Induction Center, tens of thousands of San Franciscans and other Northern Californians were inducted into military service during World War II . . . — — Map (db m72617) HM
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
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
Oldest surviving YMCA Building in California. In 1908 U.S. President William Howard Taft presided at the groundbreaking ceremony for this new building, which replaced the original central branch on Ellis and Mason streets. The original 1853 . . . — — Map (db m90942) HM
Designated as a National Historic Monument, the Coffin Reddington Building was constructed in 1937 and was designed by Frederick H. Meyer, founder of the California College of Arts and Crafts, and architect of San Francisco City Hall, the Chronicle . . . — — Map (db m72618) HM
Formerly the popular Blanco's Hotel and Restaurant, Taft Hotel
This building is listed in the
National Register of
Historic Places
Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — — Map (db m91655) HM
Home of Dashiell Hammett and Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) lived in this building from 1926 until 1929, when he wrote his first three novels: Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Maltese Falcon . . . — — Map (db m108316) HM
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
In 1919, N.Gray & Company commissioned engineer James H. Hjul to construct a two-story, wood-frame building on the southwest corner of Post and Divisadero Streets. A rare example of Georgian Revival architecture in San Francisco, the building at . . . — — Map (db m72485) HM
San Francisco was an ancient river valley were creatures who grazed and browsed and stalked their prey, left their bones. (text on the horizontal surface)
20,000 years ago you could have walked to the Farallon Islands... . . . — — Map (db m92829) HM
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial is part historical marker, part veterans memorial and entirely a work of art. It consists of a number of panels. The panels are in 15 columns of three rows each. Not all panels contain text, and some panels of . . . — — Map (db m72028) HM WM
Adobe House Site
This is the site of a Spanish and Mexican-era adobe house, dating from the 1810s to 1850s. The house is gone today, but the original stone foundation remains buried under the modern rock reconstruction you see. . . . — — Map (db m305916) HM
… "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
British cryptanalyst, logician, philosopher and mathematician widely recognized as a pioneer of artificial intelligence and the father of computer science
Alan Turing — — Map (db m98105) HM
The Fremont Street Wharf angled 500 feet northeast into the bay from this place from 1869 to 1907. At that time the Alaska Packers; fleet of wooden and iron square rigged ships and barks loaded here, sailing 2,500 miles north to Alaska each spring . . . — — Map (db m92933) HM
Side 1:
Yesterday’s Port
Alaska Packers
Every spring from the 1890s through the 1920s, local fishermen and cannery hands boarded the Alaska Packers, wooden and iron-rigged ships that sailed from San Francisco to Alaska for the . . . — — Map (db m200669) HM
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
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
Alcatraz's original lighthouse (below) was lit in 1854, when California's gold
fields were drawing fortune-seekers from around the world. It was the first
operating lighthouse on the West Coast. Today's lighthouse, which replaced
the original one . . . — — Map (db m194652) HM
Bridge construction began in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. The unemployment rate was 25 percent, and jobs were much sought after. With the exception of highly specialized jobs, the Bridge was built by local labor. Besides the pay, the . . . — — Map (db m176574) HM
Renowned poet, leading figure of the Beat Generation of American writers and artists, champion of freedom of expression and sexual self-determination. — — Map (db m99801) HM
Alleyways in Chinatown were created during the early settlement of Chinese in the late 1870’s. During that period, the rapidly-growing community was restricted by anti-Chinese sentiment to a six block area behind the back streets of the Barbary . . . — — Map (db m71997) HM
American dancer and choreographer
who drew upon his black cultural
heritage to revolutionize
African-American participation in
20th century performance — — Map (db m186789) HM
Formerly Ferris Harriman Theater and Hotel and site of the original Tivoli Opera House destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Miriam Allen Deford, described by the Mystery Writers of America as San Francisco's “most distinguished and . . . — — Map (db m91524) HM
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
America’s First Irish Coffee was made here in 1952
It was inspirationally invented
at Shannon Airport by
Joe Sheridan
It was fortuitously introduced here by
Stan Delapane
It was nurtured to . . . — — Map (db m115924) HM
This ammunition storage structure was erected in the summer of 1863 as part of the U.S. Army's initial development of the Main Post. It was used to securely store rifle ammunition for soldiers quartered in nearby barracks. Fort Point, and the later . . . — — Map (db m176596) HM
Then-owner William Roth selected Ruth Asawa, well known for her abstract, wire-woven sculptures, to design and create the centerpiece fountain for Ghirardelli Square. Although it was unveiled among some controversy in 1968, Asawa's objective was to . . . — — Map (db m90225) HM
This plaza is dedicated to Andrew S. Hallidie, developer of the cable street railway in 1873. His ingenuity gave San Francisco the cable car, memorialized in song, declared a national landmark and forever loved by the people. — — Map (db m239453) HM
Commenced operation August 1, 1873. Ceased February 15, 1947. Invented and installed by Andrew S. Hallidie, born London, England March 16, 1836. Died San Francisco, April 24, 1900. Pioneer manufacturer of wire cables, Regent University of . . . — — Map (db m143432) HM
Acquired by Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in 2000.
This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. — — Map (db m90144) HM
This place and its vicinity have abundant pasturage and fine water, all good advantages for establishing here the presidio or fort which is planned. It lacks only timber, for there is not a tree in all those hills...nearby the lake there are . . . — — Map (db m155202) HM
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
This monument is erected to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese naval ship Kanrin Maru in San Francisco Bay on 17 March, 1860. The Kanrin Maru crossed the Pacific at the same time as the U.S.S. Powhatan which brought the . . . — — Map (db m18266) HM
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world’s largest examples of the Art Deco style.
Named for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925, the Art Deco style was used by architect Irving . . . — — Map (db m176578) HM
The Assyrians formed one of the earliest great empires in the world. Their civilization dates from 2700 B.C. with the important cultural centers at Ashur and Nineveh north of modern Baghdad. Beginning as a river civilization in Mesopotamia between . . . — — Map (db m32080) HM
"A comfortable Government steamboat plied between San Francisco and its harbor posts … So we had a taste of the social life of that fascinating city, and could enjoy the theaters also." — Martha Summerhayes, Vanished Arizona: . . . — — Map (db m176601) HM
San Francisco Giants: 1982-1990
San Francisco Giants All-Stars: 1983
Born in Carmel, CA, son of military family played for Taiwan in the Little League World Series. Drafted by Kansas City, the left-handed hurler was traded to Giants in . . . — — Map (db m192170) HM
Built by Hippolite d’Audiffred in 1889, with a cast-iron facade and a French mansard roof, this is the only building standing that witnessed the construction of the Ferry Building in 1896-1898. Together they are the only two buildings along the . . . — — Map (db m72608) HM
Audre Lorde
(1934-1992)
American writer, political activist,
and self-described black feminist
lesbian mother warrior poet, whose
work confronted racism, sexism
and homophobia — — Map (db m237817) HM
In the 1920s Army aviators flew wood-and-fabric covered biplanes on daring experimental missions. In 1919, Army Air Corps Major Henry "Hap" Arnold chose this site for a pioneer Army airfield. Arnold's pilots flew both regular aircraft and . . . — — Map (db m132489) HM
"The bachelor officer leads a happy and enviable existence. His quarters exhibit a singular medley of luxury and slouchiness, elegance and homey comfort. He is much given to the adornment of his domicile, but comfort goes before beauty, and . . . — — Map (db m176602) HM
was built in Scotland for the San Francisco grain trade. From the time of her launching, in 1886, until 1890 she was employed in transporting the grain harvests of California's interior valleys to the ports of Europe.
"Although the building . . . — — Map (db m101887) HM
The Bank of California, a founding financier of the West, was established by William Chapman Ralston on July 5, 1864, the company quickly outgrew its quarters at this location and engaged architects Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville to . . . — — Map (db m70832) HM
Headquarters from 1908 to 1921. From here A.P. Giannini launched the branch system that transformed the nature of banking in California.
National Historic Landmark.
This site is of national significance in commemorating the history of the . . . — — Map (db m71998) HM
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
Noted politician and civil rights
leader, widely considered to be
the first openly lesbian
representative elected to the
United States Congress — — Map (db m120172) HM
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
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 . . . — — Map (db m195719) HM
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
San Francisco Giants: 1993-2007
NL Most Valuable Player: 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Major League Player Of The Year: 2001, 2004
San Francisco Giants All-Star: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, . . . — — Map (db m174925) HM
To reach the site of the south tower foundation, workers constructed a temporary roadway on a timber access trestle, or wharf, from the San Francisco shore. The dangers of the exposed location soon became apparent in 1933, when a freighter collided . . . — — Map (db m176570) HM
Defending the Golden Gate
Battery Lancaster's mission was unique among the many artillery installations on this bluff. From 1900 through World War I, Lancaster's three guns offered the only artillery coverage from the south for the . . . — — Map (db m176564) HM
Begun in 1933 in the depths of the Depression, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge put hundreds of men to work on two six-hour shifts, morning and night, for three years and seven months, to finish two months ahead of schedule on November 12, . . . — — Map (db m92904) HM
African-American civil rights
activist credited as the chief
organizer of the watershed 1963
March on Washington and
advocate for gay and lesbian causes — — Map (db m186766) HM
This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m72563) HM
Until this section of the seawall was completed in 1909, the waters of San Francisco Bay reached the shore near present-day Bryant Street. From this place, the Beale Street Wharf extended 500 feet into the bay, and inland for another 500 feet as far . . . — — Map (db m92912) HM
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
The Bemis Bag Company was a national leader in
the manufacturing and sale of bags and sacks. This
building was used by The Bemis Bag Company to
fabricate and store their packaging made for
housing flour, grain, and other commodities.
This . . . — — Map (db m175659) HM
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
When Warren Simmons
signed the Development
Agreement on September 10,
1975, part of the negotiations
included the salvage rights
to Pier 37, which was scheduled for demolition. Pier 39
planned to use all the weathered wharf planks and . . . — — Map (db m233381) HM
Revolution in San Francisco; July 6. 1934...Blood ran red in the streets of San Francisco yesterday. In the darkest day this city has known since April 18, 1906, one thousand embattled police held at bay five thousand longshoremen and their . . . — — Map (db m92869) HM
Here, June 25, 1835, William A. Richardson, founder of Yerba Buena, (later San Francisco) erected its first habitation, a tent dwelling, replacing it, in October 1835, by the first wooden house, and on this ground, in 1836, he erected the large . . . — — Map (db m70835) HM
Birthplace of Freemasonry in California.
Historical Landmark No. 408.
second marker:
This site marks the birthplace of
Freemasonry in California.
At this location on October 17, 1849
the first meeting of
Free and . . . — — Map (db m240302) HM
This plaque is presented to
the City of San Francisco by the
Department of State on behalf of
the government of the United
States of America to commemorate
the use of the War Memorial Opera
House of San Francisco for all
plenary sessions . . . — — Map (db m241078) 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, later . . . — — Map (db m98102) HM
Defending from an Enemy that Never Came
Both Spanish and American militaries defended the deep water harbor just east of here with artillery mounted on this strategic bluff overlooking the harbor and bay. Neither ever fired a shot in anger; . . . — — Map (db m305089) HM
On this Corner, the world's best Jazz musicians performed at the Blackhawk. The club's legacy lives in recordings made here by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader, Thelonious Monk and Ahmad Jamal, among others. Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, . . . — — Map (db m91060) HM
French restaurant and “Parlor House”, Blanco's Cafe & Hotel was known as one of San Francisco's popular entertainment spots for the wealthy offering fine food, gambling and fancy women as a house of assignation. The great depression . . . — — Map (db m91654) HM
Founded 1855
B'nai Brith was one of the most vibrant Jewish institutions in San Francisco. It operated seven lodges by 1900. Regional headquarters on this site once housed an extensive library especially strong in Judaica. The Building was . . . — — Map (db m91511) HM
Pioneer in gay journalism, co-founder
and longtime publisher of the Bay
Area Reporter, president of the
Tavern Guild and Meals on Wheels,
Emperor VII of the Imperial Court — — Map (db m308839) HM
San Francisco Giants: 1981-1988, 1989
San Francisco Giants All-Star: 1984
"Willie Mac” Award: 1984
Popular Ohioan spent seven seasons in minors before
becoming Giants starting catcher in 1984, batting .291,
20 HR, 80 RBI. He blasted . . . — — Map (db m192559) HM
San Francisco Giants: 1961-1969
South Carolinian pitched first nine seasons of solid
13-year career with San Francisco. Right-handed
sidearmer established San Francisco Giants record for
Lowest ERA, Season (1.99) in 1968, second in NL . . . — — Map (db m175307) HM
San Francisco Giants: 1968-1974
San Francisco Giants All-Star: 1971, 1973
All-Star Game MVP: 1973
NL Gold Glove Award: 1971, 1973, 1974
Electrifying outfielder showed earmarks of stardom with
grand-slam homer in first Major League . . . — — Map (db m175681) HM
This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m72551) HM
Side 1:
Yesterday’s Port
Braving the Seas
Since 1850, San Francisco Bar Pilots have waited outside the Golden Gate and boarded ships at all times, in all weather conditions. The earliest bar pilots rowed out from a sailing . . . — — Map (db m200666) HM
Activated in 1890, this U.S. Life-Saving Station was built to aid endangered seafarers in the days when San Francisco was one of the world’s busiest ports. “Surfmen” braved wind and waves to rescue victims from distressed sailing ships . . . — — Map (db m63414) HM
San Francisco Giants: 2006-2012
San Francisco Giants All-Star: 2008, 2010, 2011
Born and raised in New England, 24th-round Giants draftee
from LSU in 2008, Wilson emerged as Giants closer in 2007
and rose to prominence in that role during . . . — — Map (db m174920) HM
San Francisco grew rapidly in the early 1900s, but the mile-wide Golden Gate Strait limited access and development to the north. Traveling north to Marin County and the Redwood Empire beyond required a lengthy trip by ferryboat.
In 1923, popular . . . — — Map (db m176567) HM
The brigantine Galilee "...has invariably outsailed and outpointed every vessel with which she has ever been in company, and has the reputation of being the smartest sailing vessel out of San Francisco."
— The Rudder, . . . — — Map (db m116754) HM
This site has changed dramatically over the years. Before the Army arrived, a creek ran below your feet supplying fresh water to an extensive salt marsh where Crissy Field is today. In the 1870s, soldiers grew vegetables on the creek's banks and . . . — — Map (db m242328) HM
This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m92822) HM
In 1886 a lodging house and saloon stood across the street to your left.
The establishment hosted dockworkers and those coming to frolic at the popular
swimming cove of Black Point Beach, now Aquatic Park. It would be named
the Buena Vista Cafe . . . — — Map (db m177109) HM
This simple industrial building was constructed
circa 1940 during a time of shipyard
modernization and expansion, as World War II
raged in Europe but the U.S. had yet to be
attacked. Building 49 is a simple utilitarian
structure that is 152 . . . — — Map (db m159878) HM
During the Vietnam War, East Hospital was replaced with a new hospital to treat the growing number of war casualties. Letterman also provided comprehensive health care tor soldiers' families. The Letterman Army Institute of Research opened behind . . . — — Map (db m242212) HM
You are standing on section twelve of San Francisco's great seawall that was built between the years 1878 and 1924. Known as the Bulkhead, this continuous and massive embankment of stone was designed to hold back the bay, creating the curving . . . — — Map (db m92939) HM
Side 1:
Yesterday’s Port
Building the Seawall
Work could be hard and dirty for the pile drivers and laborers who built and maintained the Port’s seawall, wharves, and piers. The seawall extends three miles and was built in 42 . . . — — Map (db m200667) HM
Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs who roamed this part of San Francisco in the 1860s. Their devotion to each other endeared them to the citizenry, and the newspapers reported their joint adventures, whether stealing a bone from another dog, . . . — — Map (db m58394) HM
You are standing near the end of Cowell’s Wharf, dating back to early 1850s. As the map indicates a number of Gold Rush store-ships were moored as floating warehouses as far inland as Battery and Sansome Streets. With buildings in short supply, the . . . — — Map (db m70845) HM
This marker is one of a series intended to commemorate the 150 years of the Port of San Francisco. It is composed of a captioned photograph and text entitled Did you know... mounted on a cylindrical metal pylon.
Derby-hatted Tom . . . — — Map (db m201264) HM
This marker is one of a series intended to commemorate the 150 years of the Port of San Francisco. It is composed of a captioned photograph and text entitled Did you know... mounted on a cylindrical metal pylon.
Streetcars from Haight, . . . — — Map (db m200513) HM
Designed by Frederick H. Mayer in 1907. First structure built in the Uptown Tenderloin after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire. San Francisco Landmark No. 176. Boxer Muhammed Ali (known as Cassius Clay at the time) trained in the Hotel's . . . — — Map (db m63863) HM
The 1906 earthquake had devastating consequences for the California Academy of Sciences. Immediately following the earthquake, dedicated staff members were able to rush to the Academy before the fire arrived and saved one carload of precious . . . — — Map (db m132051) HM
This Fountain
is Dedicated to
the Native Sons
of the Golden West
to Commemorate
the Admission of California
into the Union
September the Ninth
Anno Domini
MDCCCL
“The unity of our empire hangs on the decision of this day.” . . . — — Map (db m90968) HM
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