Yes, the rumors are real: “The bartender would whip out a little leather-covered club and hit him over the head, pull a lever, and drop him down onto a mattress in the basement.”
with its busy factory line is a fun visit, with free samples and unusual offerings like chocolate-covered and softball-sized fortune cookies.Here’s the heart of a tiny area that survived the 1906 earthquake. In fact, the building on the corner of Hotaling Place was once the West Coast’s largest liquor repository: It stood through the flames, thanks to people hauling a mile-long hose from what’s now Fisherman’s Wharf, proving real priorities in times of disaster.
“This block gives one a sense more than any other of what it was like to walk a downtown street in the 19th century,” says Bacon. It was a wholesaler’s district with old architectural features still on display, like huge windows that shed sunlight on the wares and iron shutters to deter bandits. You can also see the last remaining examples of downtown’s Victorian Italianate commercial architecture – with its fancy window pediments and beautiful roof cornices – as everything else burned to ashes.
Daniel Bacon, historian and founder of the Barbary Coast Trail, stands at Hotaling Place and Jackson Street in San Francisco, one of the few locations with commercial Italianate Victorian architecture that wasn’t destroyed after the 1906 earthquake. In the early 1900s Pacific Street was a booming entertainment district known as Terrific Street.
The Old Ship Saloon, one of the oldest-running bars in San Francisco, has a colorful history of kidnapping sailors.
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