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About the Barbary Coast
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From
upscale restaurants and lush parks, to historic buildings and high-rise
apartments, the new Our North Waterfront
district was born out of the dilapidated warehouse area that in the mid-1800s
fed, clothed and watered the people of San Francisco. Now the North
Waterfront is home to hundreds of diverse businesses, including some of our
nation's media and advertising giants from national networks to multinational
ad agencies. Much has changed here
over the past 150 years. The land we now call Barbary Coast was then a San
Francisco Bay coastline. In 1849 when word spread of finding gold, sailing
ships by the hundreds came here, dropped anchors, and sank their vessels in
the muck. That muck, combined with those wooden ships, became part of the
fill soil which would turn into the foundation for The Embarcadero, the Ferry
Building, the Piers, retail businesses, offices, condominiums, restaurants,
coffee shops and three picturesque parks-all part of modern-day Barbary
Coast. Our blue-collar roots go deep. And we're proud of them!
All photos courtesy of Morton Beebe Photography ©
2006 |
