Posted on 05/29/2025 9:46:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's well known that San Francisco is a urban disaster area, what with malls moving out, hotels shutting doors, conventions moving to other cities, thieves looting retailers with impunity, little shops fleeing, and entire districts full of homeless drug addicts looking like Dante's seventh circle of Hell.
But has anyone asked what's going on at Fisherman's Wharf, the city's most famous tourist destination?
Sure, it's known as a tourist trap. But everyone likes to try its famous Italian and seafood restaurants at least once.
Now it's a ghost town:
Fisherman’s wharf destroyed … go woke go broke
So sad what “progressives” have done to cities pic.twitter.com/PcLKFK7XC1 — Make L.A. Great Again 🇺🇸 (@lalovestrump) May 27, 2025
What a sad place, everything boarded up, all the famous seafood restaurants -- Alioto's, Tarantino's -- gone. They aren't coming back.
These are the restaurants on what is sometimes called Pier 40, the true location of Fisherman's Wharf. When I lived in that city 30 years ago, it was getting pretty scruffy with all its tourist trappings. There also was a hellhole public housing project near the cable car turnaround that was a source of ongoing violent crime. Whose bright idea was it to put that kind of place there, where all the tourists could be victims? I wondered.
But there were establishments there and people went to them. Now there's just empty space and artifacts from the past, blowing around.
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The PRIME rule of the multiverse is that the left will ruin everything they touch by taking a bodacious Dorkbama on it.
Those with no talents and no abilities can do nothing else.
I haven't been there in years, but I can imagine what it looks like deserted. Scary as hell.
-PJ
San Francisco functioned extremely well as an ocean harbor city but never adapted to the railroad and adapted poorly to highways and vehicles.
If it was founded today, it would be multi-million dollar vacation homes with marinas full of yachts, not a city.
It's actually much worse in Oakland and even landmark establishments like Spangler’s Fish Grotto had to throw in the towel after 128 years in business
The entire Bay Area is decaying before our eyes and it's really hard to understand how so many smart, educated, insanely wealthy and influential people who live there are content to watch their home town turn into a crime ridden out door toilet.
I was there last month and I can confirm that the downtown area is pretty dead during the day. Also, I noticed that many of the mansions in Pacific Heights were being gutted and renovated. I wonder what that’s all about?
The last Republican mayor of San Francisco was George Christopher (a total RINO). Alioto succeeded him in 1968. It's been downhill ever since.
“”Newsom wants to do to America what he did to SF and Commiefornia.””
If only it was just Newscum. It’s all of the Democrats that want to “fundamentally transform” America into just another leftist-run/ruined craphole. And they will...
if we let them.
I always preferred the Monterey Fisherman’s Wharf.
What a damn shame. And it’s not just there. Take a look at every lib controlled city and you will find similar wreckage of what was once tourist destinations. Times Square that Giuliani cleaned up, now a sh!t hole once again.
I was born in Letterman General Hospital in the old presidio up above golden gate park in the old quanset huts with a view of the golden gate bridge and the smell of eucalyptus trees.
it was rented out to industrial light and magic in the 1990’s. they were bought out by disney in the last ten years.
Where I was born is now a statue of yoda. sometime I’d return tot the area and tell people where I was born is now a statue of Yoda.
That was magic. It was like I was magical. But only to people within 100 miles of SF.
Its sad what has become of the city.
I think in part the reason for the SF’s drift off the deep end is because it lost its federal garrison.
Ain’t nuttin open so, I quit going there.
Aliotto’s gone
and a most of the restaurants in the area gone.
Why anyone comes to SFO for vacation anymore is a mystery
I saw it as a young Lad decades ago and it WAS great. The left destroys anything they get their hands on.
Totally.
The entire area surrounding Union Square is mostly vacant
I was there circa 1985...it was wonderful...
Everything the Left touches...
The sum total of my experience of the place is flying over it and
changing planes in the airport. Looking at the Golden Gate Bridge from
the air was kinda cool though.
The sum total of my experience of the place is flying over it and
changing planes in the airport. Looking at the Golden Gate Bridge from
the air was kinda cool though.
Let’s all sing -
My fingers left their coordination in San Francisco….
Sea lions scattered all around on those piers too.
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