The Pier&Peaches by Stephanie Chou

The Pier & Peaches A Journey through History

Stephanie Chou

Introduction

Through this book, I want to focus on the details of the block such as the scenery and building structure while focusing on The Cannery and Hyde Street Pier as the main par ts since they were what established the area and allowed them to grow. Since The Cannery was rebuilt in 1906, I want to illustrate what has been going on and the development since that period. Also, I want to present why Hyde Street Pier is impor tant and why people should visit because people do not really explore The Cannery and Hyde Street Pier at all. From those elements, it will help people understand how impor tant The Cannery and Hyde Street Pier are.

Preface

The reason why I am doing this block is because there are the bay and the historic building which is a interesting combination between the factory and the bay. Both Hyde Street Pier and The Cannery have the meaningful history in San Francisco Bay Area, so I am wondering their histories and how I can make this block attract people to go there from my book. The visitors who come to San Francisco usually go to Pier 39 and Union Square, but there are not many people really know The Cannery and Hyde Street Pier. From this book, I want to contain the history of them, and put some interesting facts that people never know.

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Dedication This book is dedicated to my family members and my friends.

P Hyde Street Pier

Al Scoma Way

S R M S Alioto Lazio Fish Co

S The Bay Company

R Capurro's Restaurant & Bar

R Cioppino's Jeï¬&#x20AC;erson St

M The Cannery

Jones St

Beach St

Leavenworth St

Hyde St

H Argonaut Hotel

Table of Contents

History

Color Palette

Poems

Interviews

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History

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The Cannery A Historic, remodeled building in Fisherman's Wharf

(1-1)

After the 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco, many plant facilities

After male workers delivered full lugs of peaches to the prepara-

were destroyed. The same year, the company established a new

tion tables, women removed the pits with spoon-shaped knives

Cannery and warehouse for rebuilding the economy of agriculture.

and cut each peach in half. The halves were then taken to the

peeling department before canning. Containers were then filled

It has a perfect location for fruit and vegetable canning plant.

The location also provided ber thing for ships, a rail system for

with peaches through a hole in the lid, which was then plugged

bringing fruit and other produce directly from California's fer tile

with a metal disk and sealed by hand with a solder.

agricultural valleys, and a convenient way to ship finished cargo on

ocean-bound vessels. Cannery workers were able to have a front

can see what would become Hyde Street Pier Ferry Terminal and

row view in 1908, as the Great White Fleet steamed through San

the Aquatic Park, both of which were built over the rubble from

Francisco.

the 1906 Ear thquake.

This historic photo (1-2) shows The Cannery in 1923. You

By 1909, The Cannery became the largest fruit and vegetable

canning plant in the world, (1-1) producing over 200,000 cans per day and employing 2,500 people. Then, The California Fruit Cannery Association changed their name to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Del Monte.â&#x20AC;?

(1-2)

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In 1963, Leonard Mar tin, who purchased the abandoned Del

The purposes of preservation, all of the outside walls except

Monte cannery and turned it into the successful shopping

those in the central corridor are from the original cannery

and dining attraction known as the Cannery. The reason why

and packing plant. Magnolia and pear trees are planted in the

he wanted to purchase the Cannery was first to save the

central corridor. There are 20 ft high olive trees which are over

historic structure from the wrecker's ball, and, second, to

130 years old. These beautiful trees are from an old grove near

preserve this landmark, not as a static monument but as a

Marysville, California.

place for people to detach themselves from everyday hustle

and bustle, in an environment reminiscent of the romantic

broad and open stairs and a dramatic outdoor glass elevator.

marketplace of Europe.

The Cannery's architect, Joseph Esherick wanted to retain the

rich, exciting feeling of a colorful marketplace. The new cannery

Mar tin also enlisted a remarkable team of legendary,

There are balconies, open arcades, outdoor escalators,

that was creative and technical professionals to restore the

was opened in 1967, and it still family-owned; Martin's son. It is

abandoned cannery into a three level walled building of brick

how a place for people to sit and relax in the sun, amid flower

walkways and bridges which became a mall of stores, restau-

car ts and sidewalk cafes. The street musicians and enter tainers

rants and enter tainment venues. One of the major decisions

in San Francisco perform in the cour tyard and special events

was to split the massive factory into two buildings, divided a

are often scheduled, always free to the public.

zigzagging corridor open to the sky.

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Hyde Street Pie is the one of the greatest natural harbors in

Hyde Street Pier

San Francisco, and Bay Area has a rich and storied maritime

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

of San Francisco. Today, it belongs to San Francisco Maritime

history. Hyde Street Pier is located on the nor thern waterfront National Historical Park.

Before Golden Gate Bridge was built, the pier was built for

car ferries that shuttled passengers back and for th between San Francisco and Maritime County in 1922. The Golden Gate Ferry began service to Sausalito, and Hyde Street Pier became a par t of Route 101, the state's Redwood Highway. When the bridge was opened in 1937, it became the highway link and Hyde Street Ferries were soon shut down.

Hyde street Pier is a historic ferry pier which was the

CA Thayer was built by Danish-born Hans D. Bendixsen in

principal automobile ferry terminal connecting San Francisco

1895. It used to sailed from Washington to San Francisco. It

with Sausalito to the nor th, and the East Bay, Berkeley. Today,

is typical of the sor t of three-mastered schooners often used

the pier is part of San Francisco Maritime National Historical

in the west coast lumber trade. With a increase in the use of

Park. There are various historical ships anchored to the pier,

steam power for the lumber trade, C.A. Thayer was retired

some ships are available for self-guided or docent-led tours.

from the lumber trade in 1912, and conver ted for use in the

The ships which are on display are the Balclutha, 1886 square

Alaskan sal,on fishery. The State of California bought Thayer in

rigged ship, C.A. Thayer, Eureka, Alma, Hercules, Eppleton Hall,

1957. After preliminary restoration in Seattle, a volunteer crew

and over one hundred smaller craft.

sailed it down the coast to San Francisco Maritime Museum performed more expensive repairs and refitting, and opened Thayer to the public in 1963.

After being a 40-years museum ship, it was again restored

from 2004. On 12 April 2007, the ship sailed back to Hyde Street Pier.

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Eppleton Eppleton Hall is a paddle wheel tugboat, which was built by Hepple and Company of South Shields in England in 1914. It was designed to tow seagoing colliers from sea to wharf side and back. Primarily in the River Wear and from the River Tyne. For sailing ships this saved time, while for larger steam and motor vessels it save navigation and pilotage costs. It was also used to tow newly built ships out to the North Sea.

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Hercules Hercules was built in 1907 by John H. Dialogue and Sons, of Camden, New Jersey. It was built for the Shipowner’s and Merchants’ Tugboat Company of San Francisco, as par t of their Red Stack Fleet. It was an oceangoing tug. Because of the prevailing northwest winds, sailing ships often employed it and other ships on journeys nor th up the coast from San Francisco. In 1916, it towed Thayer to Washington.

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Western Pacific Between 1924 and 1962, Hercules worked for the Western Pacific Railroad moving railword cars and barges between Oakland/Alameda and Islais Creek/ Fisherman's Wharf. Because these car floats were pushed and pulled from the side, rather than simply towed astern, Hercules's strong steel hull took a lot of bumps. For extra protection, a fender rail was added on her starboard side.

The tug crews, there were only eight men all told,

worked regular shifts and slept at home. In the early years, two crews worked twelve-hour shifts, but this was later reduced to an eight-hour day. Toward the end of this career, Hercules itself worked intermittently. Her railroad duties were finally taken over by a diesel-powered, self-propelled car float, the Las Plumas.

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Color Palette

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POEMS

Poems

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Blackberry-Picking Seamus Heaney Late August, given heavy rain and sun

Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered

For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.

With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s.

At first, just one, a glossy purple clot

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.

Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.

But when the bath was filled we found a fur,

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet

A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.

Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it

The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush

Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for

The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.

Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger

I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair

Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots

That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.

Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached

Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.

our boots. Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills We trekked and picked until the cans were full Until the tinkling bottom had been covered With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned

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Jalapeno Cans Mari Kay Van Fleet

South by Southwest

Black gravel and slime

All those empty cans of love

soaked in sallow streetlight Rap music wedges through the crack in a broken hinge The dishwasher in the kitchen swears and drops a hot pan A rich man in a rich car cruises by, smothering my darkness in headlights highlighting the grime on the toes of my Chucks My break is up But I will just stay here, toss my cigarette stub in the greasy pepper can and have another smoke

Empty Cans of Love

Piling up on the outside Rusting away by All the tears Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve cried Bent and dent From all those lies Crushed ! From all those tries And like the fool I am I reach for another can Pry open the lid I still have a little to give Cold cans of love Piled up high outide A monument to all the times I tried Cold cans in the rain Disintegrating Turning to blood red rust . . . my au fait

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The End of the Pier

Call Me Pier

I walked to the end of the pier

I have just returned from a visit to my pier

and threw your name into the sea,

Often I am permitted to return to my pier

and when you flew back to me—

For a long time I would go to pier early

a silver fish—I devoured you,

So much depends upon a pier

cleaned you to the bone. I was through.

This is an old pier

But then you came back again:

I celebrate my pier, and what I assume . . .

as sun on water. I reached for you,

I had a pier

skimmed my hands over the light of you.

There is a certain slant of pier

And when the sky darkened,

On woman’s first disobedience, and the pier

again, I thought it was over, but then,

Christmas won’t be Christmas without the pier

you became water. I closed my eyes

I wandered lonely as a pier

and lay on top of you, swallowed you,

Pier was spiteful

let you swallow me too. And when

This is just to say I have eaten the pier

Nicole Callihan

Susan Firer

you carried my body back to shore— as I trusted that you would do— well, then, you became shore too, and I knew, finally, I would never be through.

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15.11.14

The Pier of La Herradura

Conchúr Mac Adaim

Javier Zamora

We sat on that old pier,

When I sleep I see a child

as the others crab-fished by.

hidden between the legs of a scarred man,

I found my hands beneath me,

their sunburnt backs breathe cold air,

in an attempt to keep them dry.

the child faces me

I traced the outline of a mountain range

and the pier’s roof swallows the moon

with my tired, tearful eyes,

cut by the clouds behind them.

and the sun pinned me to the concrete wall,

Sometimes, they’re on the same roof

stripping me of any disguise.

wearing handkerchiefs

The fresh wounds on my shoulder

and uniformed men surround them.

still oozed their precious blood,

I mistake bullet casings

yet we talked of days still to come

for cormorant beaks diving

and summers, oh so far ahead.

till water churns the color of sunsets,

Yet for a moment I almost believed that

stained barnacles line the pier

what I’d done had been undone

and I can’t see who’s facedown

but you struck me with reality

on boats lulled by crimson ripples.

and my walls came tumbling down.

Once, I heard the man —

We looked at each other,

alive and still on the roof — say

in the wild, unsettling sun,

today for you, tomorrow for me.

with the sea-surf sparkling blue

There’s a village where men train cormorants

and voices of our distant friends

to fish: rope-end tied to sterns,

ringing of the new

another to necks, so their beaks

and interesting discovery that one crab, no, two,

won’t swallow the fish they catch.

had broken through the green net -

My father is one of those birds.

maybe that was you.

He’s the scarred man.

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Sailor’s Song Thomas Lovell Beddoes To sea, to sea! The calm is o’er The wanton water leaps in sport And rattles down the pebbly shore The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort, And unseen mermaids’ pearly song Comes bubbling up, the weeds among. Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar: To sea, to sea! the calm is over. To sea, to sea! our wide-winged bark Shall billowy cleave its sunny way, And with its shadow, fleet and dark, Break the caved Tritons’ azure day, Like mighty eagle soaring light O’er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

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INTERVIEWS

Interviews

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Waterfront Baker Stephanie: How long have you been working here? Baker: 25 years Stephanie: Why did you choose to work here? Baker: To make money. I likes this area. Stephanie: What type of people usually come here? Baker: Tourist and local people. Stephanie: What is interesting you find on this block? Baker: There are many people from different country. Stephanie: Can you describe Jefferson St with one word? Baker: Nice/ Good. Stephanie: Do you want to spend your free time here if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to work? Baker: Yes. Stephanie: What would you do? Baker: Chase the young girls.

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Maritime Visitor Center Security Stephanie: How long have you been working here? Security: 4 years. Stephanie: Why did you choose to work here? Security: Well because I have a maritime background years ago. I was in the marine, the British merchantry and so I have a familiarity for ships and maritime history. Stephanie: Can you describe maritime with one word? Security: History. Stephanie: When you work here, what do people usually do here? Security: Look at the exhibits around here, and visit the old ship at the pier. Stephanie: Do you notice any interesting things on this block? Security: There are a lot of interesting things yes. There’s fishing boats, you can see fishing boats at pier 39, you can see sea lions, and this historical building all this block, the cannery, used to produce food, vegetable to oversea to the other side. And there’s a Ghirardelli Square, a chocolate factory. Stephanie: Do you want to spend your free time here If you don’t have to work? Security: Well I will walk around when I am taking a break, just see the people on the side, there are many interesting things going on this street.

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Hyde Street Pier Volunteer Stephanie: Why did you choose to work here? Volunteer: Well, I like to do.. I like to work with my hands and I’m retired and I didn’t have anything else to do and when I came here and looked around I liked all the boats and all the ships which they had so I went and asked if they needed a volunteer so they hired me. So I am a volunteer working here on the ships and I’m primarily responsible for (bright brut??) Is a word for varnishing, anything that has to be varnished not painted. This is varnish, so I’ve removed old varnish and put new varnish so that’s what I’m doing so it looks nice and pretty. Stephanie: What reason do you think that makes people to come here? Volunteer: Well they’re interested in the maritime history of

Volunteer: Well there are always something interesting.

San Francisco, and these are the ships which behave here are

You can see the sea lions going up and down, you can see

built in the late 1800, and they are really interested in the history

people swimming here or all day long, the water is really cold

of the harbour and San Francisco in general. So when people

but they get used to it.

come here, they had the ferry before they had the golden gate

Stephanie: Except doing volunteer here, what would you

bridge, and before they had another bridge, the only way to go

do in this block?

to Sausalito or the other place at other side, they have to go to

Volunteer: Well oh no, that’s what I like to do here. This is

the ferry. So this is founded the oldest and the biggest ferry so

my retired job.

far, you could drive up into it. Stephanie: Can you describe Hyde Street Pier with one word? Volunteer: Informative, and enter taining. Stephanie: When you work here, what do people usually do here? Volunteer: It’s depends on their skills. But they are trying to maintain the ships which we have here. This is the biggest thing and maintenance on those ships. Stephanie: What do you find any interesting things here?

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