Ferry Building - San Francisco, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 47.718 W 122° 23.626
10S E 553373 N 4183276
The Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay and a shopping center located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California.
Waymark Code: WM1VBT
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2007
Views: 67
From California: A Guide to the Golden State, 1938.
From the section on San Francisco.
"The FERRY BUILDING, foot of Market St., completed in 1903, has a 24O-foot central tower topped with a four-faced clock and a set-back "belfry" and cupola in four stages. Each dial of the clock is 22 feet in diameter, with numerals 3 feet long. The clock was stopped at 5:16 a.m., April 18, 1906, by the earthquake, and remained so for more than a year until repairs were completed. The first ferry sheds, erected in 1877, succeeded a wharf built here as early as 1850. The State Division of Mines has a GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (open 9-5 Mon.-Fri., 9-12 m. Sat.; July and Aug. 8-4 Mon.-Fri., 8-12 m. Sat.) Along the entire second floor corridor is a huge relief map of California, broken only by entrances to the upper decks of ferry boats."
The building houses now gourmet style shop (cheese, flowers, wine etc.) There are still ferries leaving, though the buiding isnt used as a waiting spot (the piers outside has seats etc..) The geological museum is gone.
Book: California
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 275
Year Originally Published: 1939
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