You wouldn't recognize the entire area that was previously shipping. There MIGHT be one or two REAL piers left for the incoming/outgoing cruise ships. Out of some 80 piers, all but a few are gone, and they are at Fisherman's Wharf in the north/west and in the south/east between the Bay Bridge and Hunter's Point, for the cruise ships.
The rest are changing into a PALM-TREE lined embarcadero with restaurants, condos, the Giants baseball park (almost beneath the bay bridge) and so on.
Amazing what jacked-up-beyond-belief property prices can do.
I had one employee this past year who called me "old man" and I enjoyed that, even more so when I was able to out-work him and his brother. I let him shoot my .50BMG and now he's headed for the service--wants to shoot something bigger--I guess he'll be assigned to a mortar crew or something. I guess trying to shoot over that old smokestack did it.
Did they tear down the old stadium? You could see it from the south end of the Point. And the area between there and the Bay Bridge was mostly empty, a few cranes, open space. Is Treasure Island still open? I think they processed submariners out of the service through there.