45 Pier; where Taylor Street meets the bay
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 544-0100
45 Pier; where Taylor Street meets the bay
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 544-0100
Established in 1988, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park encompasses 34 acres, and has the most National Historic Landmarks of any unit in the National Park Service. In addition to the fleet of historic ships at Hyde Street Pier, the Park includes the Aquatic Park Historic District (Maritime Museum, beach, lawn area, and bleachers), a Visitor Center and the Research Center (in Fort Mason Center). Find us on: Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfmaritimenps/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sfmaritimenps YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SFMaritimeNHP
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!
The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, it contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum.The museum contains several examples of old cable cars, together with smaller exhibits and a shop. The cable cars displayed include: Sutter Street Railway - grip car 46 and trailer 54 dating from the 1870s Clay Street Hill Railroad - grip car 8, the only surviving car from the first cable car companyThe museum is part of the complex that also houses the cable car power house, which drives the cables, and the car depot ("barn"). The car depot is not accessible, but two overlook galleries allow the visitor to view the power house, and to descend below the junction of Washington and Mason streets in order to view the large cavern where the haulage cables are routed via large sheaves out to the street.The museum was established in 1974, and is run by the Friends of the Cable Car Museum. It is entered from an entrance at Washington and Mason and is open from 10 AM to 6 PM between April 1 and September 30 and from 10 AM to 5 PM between October 1 and March 31, apart from some public holidays.
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.
We open at "ten-ish" every day and stay open until at least 7 pm every evening, often later, especially on Friday and Saturday night.
The McElroy Octagon House, also known as the Colonial Dames Octagon House, is a historic octagonal house now located at 2645 Gough Street at Union Street in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, California. William C. McElroy built it in 1861 across the street from its present location. It was vacant and neglected in 1951 when the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in California bought it, moved it across the street and began its restoration. In 1971 it became San Francisco Landmark 17. It, the Feusier Octagon House and the Marine Exchange Lookout Station at Land's End are the only three remaining octagon houses in the city.On February 23, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.The house is open to the public for tours.
is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named for American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818).Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944.Jeremiah O'Brien, and are the only currently operational Liberty ships of the 2,710 built.HistoryWorld War IIThe SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a class EC2-S-CI ship, built in just 56 days at the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine and launched on 19 June 1943. Deployed in the European Theater of Operations, she made four round-trip convoy crossings of the Atlantic and was part of the Operation Neptune invasion fleet armada on D-Day. Following this she was sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations and saw 16 months of service in both the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean calling at ports in Chile, Peru, New Guinea, the Philippines, India, China, and Australia.
パンパニト は、アメリカ海軍の潜水艦。バラオ級潜水艦の一隻。艦名はアジ科コバンアジ属 の一種、ガフトップセイル・ポンパーノ（Gafftopsail pompano）の別名に因んで命名された。現在はアメリカ合衆国国定歴史建造物としてサンフランシスコで公開されている。艦歴パンパニトは1943年3月15日にメイン州キタリーのポーツマス海軍造船所で起工した。7月12日にジェームズ・ウルフェンダー夫人によって命名、進水し、11月6日に艦長チャールズ・B・ジャクソン・ジュニア少佐の指揮下就役する。ニューロンドン沖での整調後、パンパニトはパナマ運河を通過し、1944年2月14日に真珠湾に到着。3月6日、艦長がポール・E・サマーズ（アナポリス1936年組）に代わった。第1、第2の哨戒 1944年3月 - 7月3月15日、パンパニトは最初の哨戒でマリアナ諸島方面に向かった。サイパン島への南西進入部からグアムを経てヤップ島南方に向かい、ヤップ島近海でパラオを空襲する第58任務部隊（マーク・ミッチャー中将）機の救助任務に当たった。4月7日に爆雷攻撃を受け損傷したが哨戒を続けた。4月10日には輸送船団と敵駆逐艦に対して魚雷を発射し、7,000トン級貨物船に魚雷を2本を命中させたと判断した。5月2日にミッドウェー島に寄港。5月8日、パンパニトは54日間の行動を終えて帰投。損傷修理が行われた。6月3日、パンパニトは2回目の哨戒で日本近海に向かった。九州沖、四国沖、本州近海で哨戒を行い、6月23日には潜航中の日本海軍潜水艦から2本の魚雷を発射されたが、パンパニトはこれを回避した。7月6日には輸送船団を発見し、日本の砲艦と思われる艦船を雷撃して損傷を与えたと判断した。パンパニトは7月17日に哨区を離れた。7月23日、パンパニトは50日間の行動を終えてミッドウェー島に帰投した。
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.
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.
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.
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.
SpottedSanFrancisco is a key reference for all types of activities in the Bay area. You know activities that we don't know send us by message and we will publish!
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.