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[[Image:Pier 7 entrance 1931 AAC-2301.jpg|720px]]
'''Pier 7, 1931, when it looked much like the rest of the piers along the busy, commercial waterfront.'''
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''


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''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
[[Image:Pier 7 1960s AAC-2399.jpg]]
'''Pier 7 in the 1960s was reduced to a parking lot.'''
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''
[[Image:Pier 7 w Embarcadero fwy and Pyramid 1970s AAC-2297.jpg]]
'''Pier 7 in the 1970s with the Embarcadero Freeway and the Transamerica Pyramid visible to its west.'''
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''


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Revision as of 21:36, 21 March 2013

Unfinished History

Pier 7 entrance 1931 AAC-2301.jpg

Pier 7, 1931, when it looked much like the rest of the piers along the busy, commercial waterfront.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Downtwn1$pier-7-city-view.jpg

Pier 7, a public access fishing and recreational pier built where the ruins of Pier 7 had been long abandoned.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Pier 7 1960s AAC-2399.jpg

Pier 7 in the 1960s was reduced to a parking lot.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Pier 7 w Embarcadero fwy and Pyramid 1970s AAC-2297.jpg

Pier 7 in the 1970s with the Embarcadero Freeway and the Transamerica Pyramid visible to its west.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library


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Beneath the piers just north of Pier 7, filmed from a canoe, 1995.

Video: Chris Carlsson with Joel Pomerantz

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