Pier 45 at the end of Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 346-2000
Pier 45 at the end of Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 346-2000
Alcatraz Island offers a close-up look at the site of the first lighthouse and US built fort on the West Coast, the infamous federal penitentiary long off-limits to the public, and the 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes which saved the tribes. Rich in history, there is also a natural side to the Rock—gardens, tide pools, bird colonies, and bay views beyond compare.
The Exploratorium is a twenty-first-century learning laboratory, an eye-opening, always-changing, playful place to explore and tinker. For more than forty years, we’ve built creative, thought-provoking exhibits, tools, programs, and experiences that ignite curiosity, encourage exploration, and lead to profound learning. We are a community museum dedicated to awareness. Dive in online or visit us in San Francisco and discover what we’re all about. Did you know? We have relocated to Pier 15! Come visit our new home, which has three times as much space, 1.5 acres of free outdoor space, and easy access from Bay Area public transit.
"Beach Blanket Babylon," the world's longest running musical revue, is the perfect night out with friends. Celebrating over 15,000 performances and seen by nearly six million people from around the world, this internationally acclaimed musical revue continues to delight audiences at Club Fugazi in San Francisco's North Beach district with its hilarious spoofs of pop culture, spectacular costumes and outrageously gigantic hats! Performances Wednesday - Sunday
Photograph and mingle with A-Listers, challenge your sports heroes, hop on stage with your favorite pop stars and get up close with a range of fun, interactive experiences with the world's best known personalities. So who do you want to meet?
The only place in San Francisco where you’ll find shrunken heads, an Egyptian mummified foot, pieces of duct tape art, and a two-trunk elephant! Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is the weirdest thing on the Wharf!
Vesuvio Cafe is a historic bar in North Beach, San Francisco, California. Located at 255 Columbus Avenue, across an alley from City Lights Bookstore, the building was designed by Italian architect Italo Zanolini and finished in 1916.The bar was founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, and was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady, as well as other notable cultural figures such as Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Rodger Jacobs and Francis Ford Coppola. In the 1970s, the bar was sold by Lenoir to Ron Fein, who died in 1985, and is still operated by the Fein family along with Janet Clyde, Christopher Clyde, and manager emeritus Leo Riegler.The common alley shared with City Lights was originally called "Adler" but was renamed "Jack Kerouac Alley" in 1988. The alley was refurbished and converted to pedestrian only in 2007.Vesuvio is open every day of the year, Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m, Saturdays and Sundays 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.
USS Pampanito , a, was a United States Navy ship, the third one named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a Naval Reserve Training ship from 1960 to 1971. She is now a National Historic Landmark, preserved as a memorial and museum ship in the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association located at Fisherman's Wharf.History: 1943–1970Pampanitos keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, on 15 March 1943. She was launched on 12 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James Wolfender, and commissioned on 6 November 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Charles B. Jackson, Jr. in command.After shakedown off New London, Connecticut, Pampanito transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 14 February 1944. Her first war patrol, from 15 March to 2 May, was conducted in the southwest approaches to Saipan and Guam. She served on lifeguard duty south of Yap, then scored two torpedo hits on a destroyer before sailing for Midway Island and Pearl Harbor for refit and repairs to a hull badly damaged by depth charges.
101 California Street is a 48-story office skyscraper completed in 1982 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 183m tower, providing 1250000sqft of office space, is bounded by California, Davis, Front, and Pine Streets near Market Street.DescriptionThe faceted cylindrical tower features a seven-story, glass-enclosed lobby and a granite plaza with flower beds and a fountain. During the holiday season, a platform with many oversized Christmas ornaments is added to the plaza. The building's entrance is very similar to that of 101 Park Avenue in New York City, and was also designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee in 1982.101 California is equipped with a total of thirty-two elevators, with twenty-two serving the tower; two serving floors 45 through 48; four serving the triangular annex building; two serving the garage; and two for freight. The eight stairwells throughout the building are intended for emergency use only.
Pier 41 is a ferry terminal on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. The former headquarters of Blue & Gold Fleet, their box offices are now located at Pier 39.The Pier is located east of the Fisherman's Wharf district and to the west of Pier 39. The ferry terminal is close to North Beach, Chinatown, and the Embarcadero. The area is easily accessible via the historic F Market streetcars.From Pier 41 you can see Angel Island, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39.There is service to the Oakland Ferry Terminal, the Sausalito Ferry Terminal, and the Ayala Cove Ferry Terminal on Angel Island.
Winery Collective is San Francisco's multi-winery tasting room in San Francisco focused on boutique wineries. Winery Collective provides a unique experience allowing you to taste wines from dozens of small wineries across California right in San Francisco without having to travel to each of the wine regions. Meet wine makers, explore wine samplers, and experience wine country across California from Napa Valley to Santa Barbara while wine tasting in San Francisco. Winery Collective is located in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf at 485 Jefferson Street @ Hyde Street next to The Cannery and 1 block from the Hyde Street Cable Car Turnaround.
What Makes EscapeSF Room Escape Games Better? Environments are very realistic and full of background electronics for true emergence experience. In our games we use prop production, programmable micro-controllers, and game-design theory. We focused on altering your reality with great, immersive details and also touches of humor.
Melding technology and creativity, the Salesforce Tower is designed specifically to promote the health and well-being of its inhabitants. The building is being designed by world-renowned architecture firm Pelli, Clarke, Pelli Architects. César Pelli is known for building some of the world's tallest buildings and urban landmarks. Learn more about one of America's most influential architects here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli These days, it's all about location location location. With this in mind, Salesforce Tower will be directly adjacent to the new Transbay Transit Center. Deemed the “Grand Central Station of the West,” the new transit-friendly Transbay neighborhood will transform downtown San Francisco and the Bay Area’s regional transportation system. Learn more about the Transbay Transit Center at www.transbaycenter.org The Salesforce Tower is a joint venture between Boston Properties and Hines, two companies that have more than 453 million square feet of commercial office space in service. To learn more please visit: www.bostonproperties.com and www.hines.com
580 California Street is a high rise office building completed in 1987 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The postmodern, 107m, 23 story tower is bordered by Kearny Street and California Street, and is topped with three, twelve foot tall statues described as "The Corporate Goddesses" by Muriel Castanis on the twenty-third floor.Tenants Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP Blurb, Inc. CEB Consulate General of Canada Huron Consulting Group Northern Trust Corporation State Farm Insurance Wetherby Asset Management Oppenheimer & Co. Inc Troutman Sanders LLP Recommind
USS Pampanito , a, was a United States Navy ship, the third one named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a Naval Reserve Training ship from 1960 to 1971. She is now a National Historic Landmark, preserved as a memorial and museum ship in the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association located at Fisherman's Wharf.History: 1943–1970Pampanitos keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, on 15 March 1943. She was launched on 12 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James Wolfender, and commissioned on 6 November 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Charles B. Jackson, Jr. in command.After shakedown off New London, Connecticut, Pampanito transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 14 February 1944. Her first war patrol, from 15 March to 2 May, was conducted in the southwest approaches to Saipan and Guam. She served on lifeguard duty south of Yap, then scored two torpedo hits on a destroyer before sailing for Midway Island and Pearl Harbor for refit and repairs to a hull badly damaged by depth charges.
Photograph and mingle with A-Listers, challenge your sports heroes, hop on stage with your favorite pop stars and get up close with a range of fun, interactive experiences with the world's best known personalities. So who do you want to meet?
Winery Collective is San Francisco's multi-winery tasting room in San Francisco focused on boutique wineries. Winery Collective provides a unique experience allowing you to taste wines from dozens of small wineries across California right in San Francisco without having to travel to each of the wine regions. Meet wine makers, explore wine samplers, and experience wine country across California from Napa Valley to Santa Barbara while wine tasting in San Francisco. Winery Collective is located in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf at 485 Jefferson Street @ Hyde Street next to The Cannery and 1 block from the Hyde Street Cable Car Turnaround.
Pier 41 is a ferry terminal on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. The former headquarters of Blue & Gold Fleet, their box offices are now located at Pier 39.The Pier is located east of the Fisherman's Wharf district and to the west of Pier 39. The ferry terminal is close to North Beach, Chinatown, and the Embarcadero. The area is easily accessible via the historic F Market streetcars.From Pier 41 you can see Angel Island, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39.There is service to the Oakland Ferry Terminal, the Sausalito Ferry Terminal, and the Ayala Cove Ferry Terminal on Angel Island.
When you join the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association your tax-deductible membership contribution supports award-winning educational programs and sustains exciting authentic national treasures that reflect the best of San Francisco's past and present.
Eureka is a side-wheel paddle steamboat, built in 1890, which is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California. Originally named Ukiah to commemorate the railway's recent extension into the City of Ukiah, the boat was built by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company at their Tiburon yard. Eureka has been designated a National Historic Landmark and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1973.Early historyThe ship originally carried commuters between San Francisco and Tiburon during the day and hauled railroad freight cars at night. In 1907, Ukiah was re-routed to the Sausalito - San Francisco Ferry Building route by its new owners, Northwestern Pacific Railroad.As automobiles became more common, motorists wanted to "drive across the bay". Since there were no bridges on San Francisco Bay at the time, Ukiah was able to meet this demand via a refitted lower deck designed to handle vehicles. The deck above (also enclosed) was expanded for passengers.World War I and name changeDuring World War I, Ukiah carried munition-filled rail cars for the war effort. Overloading of the ship caused hull strains so severe that the government paid for complete rebuilding of the ship. Shipwrights at the Southern Pacific yard labored for two years—eventually replacing all of its structure above the waterline. This kind of reconstruction was called "jacking up the whistle and sliding a new boat underneath." The refurbished ferry was christened Eureka in honor of the Northern California city, which also happened to be the new northern termination of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad.
De Eureka is een historische stoomboot uit 1890 die als museumschip te bezichtigen is in het San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco in de Amerikaanse staat Californië. Oorspronkelijk had de boot de naam Ukiah om te herdenken dat het spoorwegnet indertijd uitgebreid was naar de plaats Ukiah. De boot deed in eerste instantie dienst tussen San Francisco en Tiburon, later op de lijn Sausalito–San Francisco. De veerboot kon 2300 passagiers en 120 auto's vervoeren; het was destijds met een lengte van 90,76 m en een breedte van 23,6 m de grootste veerboot ter wereld. De Eureka was tot 1958 in gebruik. De boot is sinds 1985 een National Historic Landmark.
Join us aboard exciting all-day excursions into the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and to the Farallon Islands. We head on our stable catamaran beginning in San Francisco, heading out under the Golden Gate Bridge. we visit Harbor Seals in Diablo Cove and California Sea Lions at Point Bonita then head out to the Farallon Islands on our weekend trips. On arrival at the Islands we find Elephant Seals, California Sea Lions as well as Harbor Seals. Breeding birds of the islands which we may spot include Pigeon Guillemot, Cassin's Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Tufted Puffin Double-Crested Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Brandt's Cormorant, Western Gull, Least Storm-Petrel, Ashy Storm-Petrel, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Black Oystercatcher and the Common Murre.
"Beach Blanket Babylon," the world's longest running musical revue, is the perfect night out with friends. Celebrating over 15,000 performances and seen by nearly six million people from around the world, this internationally acclaimed musical revue continues to delight audiences at Club Fugazi in San Francisco's North Beach district with its hilarious spoofs of pop culture, spectacular costumes and outrageously gigantic hats! Performances Wednesday - Sunday
The House at 1254-1256 Montgomery Street is a historic house located at 1254-1256 Montgomery Street in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The house was built in 1865 on a secondary summit of the hill, which was also the site of a windmill that burned in 1861. The house's Italianate design features bay windows on the front corner, double-hung sash windows decorated with pilasters and cornices, and a bracketed cornice along the roofline. While the house originally had only one story, its second story was part of its original plan and constructed by the 1890s. The house is one of the few buildings on Telegraph Hill which survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1979.
You and eleven other people are trapped in a room. As you look around you start to notice strange messages—or are they clues?—hidden around the room. Can you and your friends solve the series of puzzles, find the key, and get out within an hour? Based on popular room escape video games, you now have an opportunity to flex your mental muscles in this brand-new live puzzle game in San Francisco!
Vesuvio Cafe is a historic bar in North Beach, San Francisco, California. Located at 255 Columbus Avenue, across an alley from City Lights Bookstore, the building was designed by Italian architect Italo Zanolini and finished in 1916.The bar was founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, and was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady, as well as other notable cultural figures such as Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Rodger Jacobs and Francis Ford Coppola. In the 1970s, the bar was sold by Lenoir to Ron Fein, who died in 1985, and is still operated by the Fein family along with Janet Clyde, Christopher Clyde, and manager emeritus Leo Riegler.The common alley shared with City Lights was originally called "Adler" but was renamed "Jack Kerouac Alley" in 1988. The alley was refurbished and converted to pedestrian only in 2007.Vesuvio is open every day of the year, Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m, Saturdays and Sundays 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.
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Join us for what promises to be frightfully good fun! Scares abound in the dimly lit halls of Mayhem Mansion where the inhabitants are definitely off their rockers! Take a hauntingly fun tour led by ghoulish hosts, with scary surprises at every turn! Mayhem Mansion SF takes place the last two weekends in October. Visit the "Spookeasy" before, or after, your tour, for a delicious beverage. Advance tickets available October 1st through www.eventbrite.com. Search "Mayhem Mansion SF 2016". A limited amount of tickets will also be available at the door each night. Not recommended for children under 8. A percentage of the proceeds from this fundraiser go to the continued maintenance and upkeep of the Haas-Lilienthal House, an historic house and city landmark, as well as the home of San Francisco Heritage. SF Heritage is a nonprofit, member supported organization with a mission to preserve and enhance San Francisco's unique architectural and cultural identity.