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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I was in Vallejo CA (just up the Bay on the Napa River) - 1983-1988. Beautiful then, but the (few) grimy parts already there were visibly sliding downhill towards today's sewer.
This is no surprise. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor used to be a great tourist destination 30 years ago too. Then, just like SF, the city became more interested in pandering to the loud crowd than maintaining law and order and keeping the public areas clean and in good repair.
It’s against their religion to vote for a Republican....and they would be social outcasts if their friends found out.
Almost got mugged in Union Square last month.
But it’s better than the Embarcadero was during the worst of the ‘Rona madness, at least they don’t have dopers living in tents anymore.
They turned the Embarcadero into a giant outhouse during Rona madness...
Pity, I used to go down there every once in a while and get a bread bowl of chowder and go commune with the sea lions.
Funny
Not
There use to be cops everywhere
The libs won’t be happy until every major city is buried in crap.
One of my favorite things in all the world to do has always been to take the ferry from Vallejo to Fisherman's Wharf, an hour's trip, and back again. What a wonderful thing! I loved taking my family. I gave my son the money to do it for his wife's birthday.
Yes. Leftists/"liberals"/"progressives"/Democrats destroy everything they touch and, like psychopaths, or like a plague of locusts, they leave a wake of destruction behind them everywhere they go.
The Left/"liberalism"/"progressivism"/the Democrat Party are definitely the embodiment of evil.
It still had those. Many billionaires live there.
One of my favorite Italian restaurants was Fior d’ Italia. I left the Bay Area before they moved to Fisherman’s Wharf.
I was last there in the summer of 2016. It was quite lively and bustling then. Festival-like atmosphere.
My friend and I ate lunch at a very good, casual seafood place before getting on our ferry to Alcatraz, where we spent an interesting sunny afternoon touring the prison and other buildings.
The next day, we had a casual, late afternoon snack and beer at another restaurant on the Wharf before boarding a boat for two-hour sunset cruise.
I hate to hear that the left has destroyed Fisherman’s Wharf, but I’m not surprised.
My wife and I, both born in the Bay Area, recall the numerous times that we would visit Fisherman’s Wharf and we would always have a meal of crab louie at A. Sabella’s. Then, as the years passed we noted the presence of numerous panhandlers, we were confronted often by nasty performance idiots. Then == we were from families that preceded the ‘49 Gold Rush == when they screwed-up the Cliff House, another favorite hangout, we knew it was time to get the hell out. We have fond memories, but never looked back.
In times past I enjoyed both of those restaurants very much. Sad to see what liberals have done to destroy their own nest.
When the wife and I lived in Reno, it was always a fun annual event to drive to SF, park the car and ride cable cars and walk all over town. Great restaurants, plays, and concerts and a fun long weekend.
Hard to believe no more clam chowder at Alioto’s overlooking the marina, and standing at Tadish’s Seafood Grill waiting for a seat at the counter.
People get the city they deserve.
Spangler’s gone!
What a shame
Spangler’s gone!
What a shame
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