San Francisco's Lost Docks

[@ITSHISTORY]

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[@joantrainor6584]

I am a native San Franciscan, and much of this is new to me . Thanks for this video!

[@thestevedoughtyshow27]

In 1968, San Francisco was offered container equipment. The mayor felt it was a fad, he said ships would be unloaded by hand. And it all moved to Oakland.

[@DeanStephen]

It was Mayor Alioto’s pandering to the union vote that lost all this industry to Oakland.

[@AllDogsAreGoodDogs]

Oakland has more problems than most major cities! You picked a lousy example.

[@DeanStephen]

@@AllDogsAreGoodDogs I didn’t have a choice. It’s just history. It’s what happened.

[@thestevedoughtyshow27]

@AllDogsAreGoodDogs I didn't pick Oakland, that's where shipping picked.

[@pierheadjump]

⚓️ Thanks Steve 😎 question remains ? How & where to put the container gantries and acres of yard space needed by containers… not to mention truck/trailer access to the area. The geography of the peninsula does not lend any reasonable economic support to container operations. 🌈

[@hotttt28]

When I was a child I fished for perch off those docks !

[@rickpetersen41]

@@hotttt28 me to!

[@franksavage8031]

One of the ships I was on in the Navy was built at Hunters Point Shipyard, the USS Horne.

[@ronm3245]

Thank you for your service. Was she a destroyer or a cruiser? My ship (AOR1) was built in Quincy, MA, but did her service mostly out of the Bay Area.

[@sunnyoutdoors]

love all those old photos you found, wow, lots of great research

[@JonPorter94087]

Another historic dock is the Alcatraz pier located between Aquatic Park and Fort Mason. It was where employees and their dependents caught the ferry to and from Alcatraz, and where prisoners were transported on the warden's launch. Sadly, the mission-style waiting room at the end of the pier was recently demolished and the pier itself is in poor condition and fenced off.

[@radiosnail]

Did not the advent of containerisation result in most cargo now being handled in Oakland?

[@kevinblatter2369]

I am not in the shipping industry, but have lived in the Bay Area for several decades. I believe the only container ship docks are in the Port of Oakland.

[@jameshudkins2210]

@@kevinblatter2369 They tried in Richmond and Mission Rock.

[@wmtrader]

Yes, and Oakland has the freeways and railroads without the need to cross the bay.

[@deansantos8915]

I worked in a warehouse ten years ago. The story I heard was that the Irish mob ran the SF dock workers union in the 80s. They resisted the containerization of SF docks mid 80s. It was because the mob wasn’t able to get their cut from the goods coming in. What ended up happening was that shipping companies just ended up moving their point of entry from SF to Oakland.

[@RLJSlick]

Excellent job as always!

[@MrX-dh5ji]

Great job! I enjoy all of your videos, but I liked this one a lot. I’ve lived in San Francisco and Monterey and was surprised how much I learned in this episode!

[@ITSHISTORY]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@waitaminute-vw9hf]

Monterey has some great history also.

[@bradfordwetmore]

@1:55: Map: "Country of Tulares" I have never heard of this. I found the map and a few references in "The California Padres and Their Missions" but have never heard of it as a country before.

[@clintonflynn815]

It should be "county."

[@mdautermann]

It's Fisherman's Wharf, not Ward @15:49 🙂

[@TohaBgood2]

Oh shush! The out-of-towner gentleman tried his best with the names.

[@rocknrao]

Crane Cove Park is pretty popular and it seems like housing is springing up nearby.

[@michaelmunoz6728]

Excellent job, Pile Drivers Bridge Wharf and Dock Builders Union #34 oldest dock builders local on the West Coast.

[@ashoup7534]

Like an eighth grade book report: "on the banks of san Francisco, here we see fisherman's ward"

[@TheRightONe-et3gh]

It is interesting that in the late 19th century early 20th, San Francisco and Marin County were the low life towns while Oakland-Berkeley were the upper class cities.

[@Sonic-l4v]

Just like Compton, CA

[@Billyboy4209]

Sardines are finally making a comeback from this cannery. I was out fishing on a charter boat in the bay yesterday and the captain literally just happened to be talking about this.

[@jangles1839]

Thanks so much Ryan! I sent you an email about that story I mentioned. Take care & God bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏻

[@emj1989]

idea for a video is the 1915 worlds fair in san Francisco their is not much left of the fair but 2 buildings a fire truck and the 19in gauge railroad. i am apart of the organization that is working on restoring the equipment we have photos from the fair and of the railroads creator

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Really great, thank you!

[@Skyfire-x]

The software developer of Pokemon Go, Niantic is named after a whaling ship that was buried in the landfill near the TransAmerica Pyramid.

[@BusterKitten]

used to fish off those docks in the 60s.

[@michaeltelson9798]

My work in agricultural quarantine (import and export) I had been on several of the old piers. I saw some amazing work in some of them, like the shipment of cotton. It is sad that the city trying to earn more money had chased out much of business by hiking up rents. Oakland has been doing the same thing with the majority of those on the boards being real estate developers. The maritime shipping industry has been chased out of both San Francisco and Oakland.

[@wayneabbott652]

The airport is not in San Francisco city/county. It's in San Mateo county.

[@vacamike]

Meaningless distinction. It is owned by the city and county of san francisco

[@fixpacifica]

@@vacamike Still subject to San Mateo County laws, though. For example, if you commit a crime at SFO, it's the San Mateo County DA that will decide whether to prosecute you.

[@vacamike]

@@fixpacifica no one mentioned crimes or prosecution

[@fixpacifica]

@@vacamike You implied that San Mateo County has nothing to do with the airport. But it does.

[@vacamike]

​@fixpacifica you implied the jurisdiction is san mateo County. It is not. Its the SFPD Airport Bureau. Any other questions?

[@DavidFRhodes]

one addition - there used to be an elevated freeway all along the Embarcadero. it didn't survive the 89 quake however

[@wayneabbott652]

No it was torn down

[@DavidFRhodes]

@@wayneabbott652 wut? i just said that. granted some of it remained up until the late 90's, but it was unused the whole time. dude i was there.

[@wmtrader]

@@wayneabbott652 It was damaged in the 1989 earthquake and no longer used, then it was torn down. I'm old enough to recall driving on it.

[@ronm3245]

Part of the double-decker elevated Cypress Freeway across the bay in Oakland collapsed. The Embarcadero Freeway was damaged but survived. They tore it down two years later, not because they couldn't fix it, but because they just didn't want it that much any more.

[@ronm3245]

@@DavidFRhodes Internet says "1991 Removal complete." What part of it remained, may I ask, up until the late 90s?

[@carmenpeters728]

❤I LOVE YOU SAN FRANCISCO ❤

[@OkCanary]

You're forgetting that there are major redevelopment plans for Mission Rock, Pier 70, and former Potrero Power station.

[@hotttt28]

We called it the Embarcadero!

[@karentrimmer]

Landfill areas are abandon because it was realized that major earthquake movement is intensified and devastating in those areas. In 1906 there was no water to put out the fires because the conduits ran from the bay, through the landfill areas up to the city, where destroyed.

[@edwardolson8996]

Very informative, thanks so much.

[@BlizzAz]

6:58 Bleeep?

[@SithLordAnakin]

half "assed" nature

[@BlizzAz]

@@SithLordAnakinAhh! Thank you.

[@ryanwest2825]

Ill have to go visit The Fisherman's Ward!

[@matthewbarr8717]

You kind of skipped over Candlestick Point, Sierra Point and Oyster Point when you flew from Hunter’s Point to SFO. Candlestick was the former home of the Giants and 49ers. Oyster Point has a modern ferry terminal but its cove has an interesting history as well. The Cove is now a modern biotech hotspot.

[@frankgrima]

I moved to San Francisco in 1975 and still live here thanks for the report

[@lewizzrocks]

San Francisco is definitely the most beautiful port city in the country. Seattle is a close second.

[@ITSHISTORY]

I’ve only been there once and I agree it was lovely

[@SnoopEastwood]

Not these days are you serious? Place has gone downhill it's sad. Used to be pretty

[@brianpederson2105]

With respect to negative comments please be aware that the Embarcadero neighborhood is fine. There are rough neighborhoods but the waterfront isn't one of them

[@adamoliver4094]

I walked all through San Francisco yesterday. Embarcadero, North Beach, Marina, Presidio, Chinatown, it's ridiculously nice. There seems to be significantly less homelessness than there was 2 years ago.

[@lewizzrocks]

@jaxbronson9734 no not really atleast not the waterfront.

[@anytow]

10:27 it’s a graving dock it doesn’t float, and there are two of them!

[@Et91640]

This is so cool I live here in the city and know all these points

[@WillaHerrera]

Something San Francisco is known for Worldwide is FISHERMANS WHARF You said fishermans ward. Other cities may call such an area their fishermans ward , here in California we prefer Fishermans Wharf.

[@anasevi9456]

the fact that the Spanish, then the Russians and then the British were elbowing over this territory decades before any US governmental rock up: shows what a mad mad world the early 19th century was. Ignoring Napoleon's Anglo French wars doubles my point.

[@minhdat5549]

I enjoyed parts of the video especially about SF Docks prior to the 20th century. But a lot of the history, especially from World War II on through the 1980s is missing. States Lines, Pacific Far East Lines, States Marine Isthmian Lines (which later became Delta Lines at pier 32), American President Lines (at pier 50), the white banana boats at China Basin, the grain terminals at India Basin, etc.

[@minhdat5549]

Matson also.

[@AC-jk8wq]

14:55 do not take photos. 😃

[@woody95124]

Very very interesting...

[@enriquelandaf]

My home is seen at Aureleo Walker and Innez Ave @19:00

[@ttam328]

You Mentioned "New Butcher Town" where the slaughterhouses were on The Creek ITs called Dogtown, was then, is now Stray dogs eating dumped flesh

[@clintonflynn815]

It's called Dogpatch, and is north of the area previously known as Butchertown.

[@dmitryboltenko6326]

More SF please

[@theprofessorfate6184]

Next Episode: Rampant theft, human feces/urine and dirty needles.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@theprofessorfate6184 And the immediate episode after that - the terrible brain rotting effects of right wing propaganda. Check the actual crime rates. SF is safer than all of Florida and each major city in Florida individually.

[@enriquelandaf]

What do mean by "Bleep" @17:59

[@geewillikers5342]

Can you do a story on my lost bike lock keys? (Also lost in San Francisco)

[@SeanRCope]

Worked a batch-plant at the end of one for a few weeks in the 90’s. DARK and stinky.

[@KentBunn]

Banks of San Francisco? I'd have gone with "coast" instead. Banks just sounds weird. Bayfront maybe would have been better too?

[@rickpetersen41]

My father was a see captain he would dock his ships there in the sixty’s!

[@michaelsmiley15]

There wherehouses parking garages storage Originally the were for ferry traffic that carried passengers and freight across the bay Pier 27 was converted for the America's cup They moved the exploritorium in one of them Part of san francisco

[@TohaBgood2]

The ferries are coming back in force these days! They're an extremely scenic way to commute. We kind of love them!

[@CarlSaxen]

But why are the piers north of the bay bridge have uneven numbers and south of the bay bridge have even numbers?

[@TohaBgood2]

Standard port numbering system.

[@sjTHEfirst]

Why would they call it BEEP Creek?

[@J.A.Smith2397]

PLEASE do something on the burning of native villages along the mississinewa during 1812 war and the battle site we still do battle reenactment along with our native village! The true story is a great one about Campbell's troops getting caught and their horses killed after coming from Ohio!!!

[@DonnaChassie]

MID NIneteen hundreds?????No! 1800's!

[@tr1ppyh1ppy]

man i wish i could move to america

[@mromatic17]

15:20 OF COURSE THERES A LOT OF FERRIES IN SAN FRANCISCO!

[@ITSHISTORY]

Shhhhhhhhh

[@carmenpeters728]

No there isn't.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@carmenpeters728 Huh? There are a ton of ferries in SF and they're doubling the size of the system soon.

[@yakub3962]

They should see what the Netherlands did in the Houthavens.

[@TohaBgood2]

Nah, we're good. People want the Bay to stay its current size. Any more Bay fill has been banned since the 70s and we like it that way.

[@robotekusa]

like all utube docs these days- topic starts 10:00

[@SithLordAnakin]

The old name literally translates to "Good Weed" lmao

[@carmenpeters728]

Good herb.

[@TohaBgood2]

Can attest, the name still checks out!

[@janitorhoseph9449]

San Fran. Has dedsec and web bare bears.

[@BJOlson]

Piers. not docks

[@kennethsonier1766]

The English"Raccoon" must have been tired by the time he swam from England to San Francisco 😉

[@SnoopEastwood]

Let's be real San Francisco's lost everything at this point.

[@vpolite1]

What has it lost?

[@SnoopEastwood]

​@@vpolite1 Everything that made it a great city. Failing society and infrastructure, they do nothing for the homeless it's horrible.

[@vpolite1]

@@SnoopEastwood So, you have no clue what you are talking about. You are just regurgitating Russian/GOP talking points.

[@azairahpittman4214]

I can say the same for most US cities due to segregation, politics, neighborhood experiments, etc. San fransico hasn't lost everything, same way not every US city hasn't lost everything, very blunt statement to say imo.

[@carmenpeters728]

Apparently you've never been to San Francisco.

[@michaelWells-ef9bx]

~ The Freakin Noise !! .(#7:45 ) .. the Ambulance’s are doing an Impotant Job... ~ ( Those FREAKIN loud Harley’s ) are doing NOTHING but making As es out of themsevels

[@davidmackey344]

Train at 11:55 isn't even American.

[@J.T.650]

First

[@RWilliams6943]

14:50 The US Army sign states that Photography is PROHIBITED.

[@ajkleipass]

Probably a military photographer, or a member of the armed forces who thought taking a photo of the sign would give his family back home a good chuckle.

[@abigalanderson7494]

Having shitz creek in san franpoopsco makes since

[@jetsons101]

Sad that San Francisco is less that a shadow of it's former self...... Change who you vote for.

[@ajkleipass]

I'm not sure what a change in political leadership would do to restore San Francisco to its industrial past. A tower block of 2.5 million dollar condominiums isn't going to be replaced by a container port, or a herring cannery. The land is too valuable for redevelopment as an industrial complex. Turning the city from blue to red won't change that. Likewise in any other major city with limited land expansion possibilities.

[@MarinCipollina]

Vote AGAINST all fascists !!

[@kevinblatter2369]

Shadow of it's former self? Are you kidding? Having lived in the Bay Area since the 1960's, San Francisco is better now than it's ever been. The city is clean and the gentrification of many neighborhoods makes it a wonderful place to live.

[@jetsons101]

@@MarinCipollina And all socialist, communist and anybody else against personal freedoms.

[@jetsons101]

@@ajkleipass My "change who you vote for" was getting rid of Defund the Police, making public transportation safe and clean again, cut regulations and taxes, getting rid of the open-air drug markets and work on making the city safe, clean and family friendly.

[@zackatwood2867]

A half ass city

[@TohaBgood2]

🤡🤡🤡

[@ChrisNoonetheFirst]

Weak. No mention of Candlestick or Coit tower. No mention of Native Californian boatmaking traditions before the arrival of the Spanish. Reason for Spanish expansion is not even explained. Chinese immigration (SF's oldest and largest group) is barely mentioned at all. Low effort, try harder

[@warrengalliano6103]

The city is fast-becoming a world famous turd.

[@raywills4709]

Now they need to clean up all of the drug abuse on the streets.

[@carmenpeters728]

Maybe you can help. Come get your family off of the street. We'll give you a one-way ticket home just don't come back because you're not welcome

[@TohaBgood2]

They already did. SF is back to normal.

[@theprofessorfate6184]

Great episode Now do one on how BART helped bring the great unwashed from Oakland and ruin San Francisco.

[@TohaBgood2]

BART is pretty damned clean and safe these days. Oakland itself is gentrified to bits. The 80s are over, my friend. Get some new propaganda that sounds more believable.