Pier 7

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

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Pier 7, c. 1920s.

Photo: San Francisco Maritime National Museum, A12.15,778p1

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Pier 7, no date, probably early 1900s.

Photo: San Francisco Maritime National History Park

View from bay toward the end of Pier 7 Pacific Street Wharf c 1920 wnp27.7195.jpg

View from the bay toward the end of Pier 7/Pacific Street Wharf, c. 1920.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.7195

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

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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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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