Pier 7
Unfinished History
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
View from the bay toward the end of Pier 7/Pacific Street Wharf, c. 1920.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.7195
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 in the 1960s was reduced to a parking lot.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
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