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Alioto's. Coordinates: 37.808700°N 122.416084°W. Alioto's Restaurant was a historic Italian fish restaurant located at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf . It began in 1925 as a fish stand, operated by Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto, Sr. [1] In 1932, with business at his Stall #8 doing well, Alioto built the first building on Fisherman's ...
Bernstein's Fish Grotto was a popular restaurant in San Francisco, California, that operated from 1912 to 1981. Description [ edit ] Opened by Maurice Bernstein (1886-1932) in 1912, [1] Bernstein's Fish Grotto was known for its unique entrance, a ship's bow jutting into the sidewalk.
Swan Oyster Depot. Swan Oyster Depot is a seafood eatery and cultural landmark located in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened there in 1903 and except for a brief hiatus and rebuilding period following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it has been running continuously in the same venue since that time.
The company was founded ca. 1815 as Fish, Grinnell & Co. (the senior partner of which had the memorable, if improbable, name of Preserved Fish (1766–1846)); the Grinnell was his cousin Joseph Grinnell, one of six sons of a shipper and merchant in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions. First appearing at Pier 39 after the 1989 earthquake, the sea lions have become a well known tourist attraction.
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California, United States. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. The F Market streetcar runs through the area, the Powell-Hyde cable car line runs to ...
The company produced salt using salt evaporation ponds on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. By the 1940s, Leslie Salt under the dominant ownership of the Schilling family [4] had become the largest private land owner in the Bay Area. By 1959, they were producing more than one million tons of salt annually, on over 26,000 acres (11,000 ha) of ...
Aquarium of the Bay is a public aquarium located at The Embarcadero and Beach Street, at the edge of Pier 39 in San Francisco, California. The aquarium is focused on local aquatic animals from the San Francisco Bay and neighboring rivers and watersheds as far as the Sierra Mountains. Since 2005 the Aquarium has focused its mission on enabling ...