QUESTION: When was the last time you visited Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 in San Francisco, and did you have a good time?
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QUESTION: When was the last time you visited Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 in San Francisco, and did you have a good time?
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Two decades ago
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I am a San Francisco native, so the tourist attractions aren’t interesting to me. In my
opinion, the Wharf was better before Pier 39 became a tourist attraction. In the 70s,
traffic was light and there was always plenty of free parking.
My uncle was a retired crab fisherman and owned his boat. After he retired, he opened up
a crab net business and hand made the nets himself. When I was a kid, my sister and I
would take the bus to downtown, transfer to the cable car, and visit with him at his shop on
the Wharf. Then we’d head over to the Maritime museum where admission was free.
It was a great era back then when kids could ride the bus, get off and walk around without
any worries.
To answer the question, I’ve only been to Pier 39 a couple of times and wasn’t impressed.
The last time was probably more than 15 years ago. From what I understand, most
businesses, shops, and restaurants are closed or in the process of closing due to the rise
of criminal activity. Most of San Francisco’s beauty is a thing of the past thanks to liberal Democrat public officials, and the dummies who vote or them.
I’ve worked with lots of SF guys who were born, raised and still live there. They tell me it’s not the long time family residents who are responsible for the massive degradation of the once great city. They say it’s the newly arrived progressive liberal Democrat residents who are responsible for the destruction of what was one the country’s greatest cities.
About 18 months ago. It was very touristy and all the class had disappeared. The Maritime Museum is still good (with the various floating exhibit ships). Nothing’s been the same since the bush-man died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Famous_Bushman
Haven’t been there since the 1990s when some family came to visit… parking sucks and it’s not entertaining. Monterey and Half Moon Bay are waaaay better.
Late ’80’s – it was great then – had a great time …. very touristy but I expected it
Last weekend. I took the nieces and theirs grandparents to the 3D optical illusion museum, the Ferris wheel and had lunch at the fog harbor fish house.
I took my daughter there for her 16th birhday 6 years ago on her request. Have always thought that the pier and city were dirty, nasty and over priced.
A youtuber i follow did a recent video on fishermans wharf, and its really gone downhill. Lots of restaurants closing and shops closing. Theres barely anything left.
really sad.
In the 80’s when SF was fun to visit and safe and Reagan was governor and everything was booming and gas was 67 cents per gallon.Now Calif and sf are just a leftist toilet due to years of just discovered vote cheating.You time has come libs..youre almost gone.
In March, we took my son and granddaughters to Fisherman’s Wharf, but we never made it to Pier 39. We had some clam chowder and a hot crab sandwich, and we rode a cable car for the first time. I did get to introduce the girls to USS Pampanito, so yeah, we had some fun.
I remember being down there when there were still railway lines and a derelict locomotive, before Pier 39 was modernized.
One very rainy night, I was driving there and following the stripes on the road. That was all I could see because the rain was torrential and it was very windy. I followed the stripes until they turned into the glare of the wet tracks in the streetlights and I went bumping along the sleepers and blew a tyre, which I had to change in the pouring rain.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been to Pier 39 or the wharf. As a teen, I was in the Sea Scouts and our ship was moored at Aquatic Park. Spent many weekends hanging out and exploring Fisherman’s Wharf before it turned into a crowded tourist trap. A few years back, several of us ventured over to SF and decided to take the cable car and the wait line was over a block long! Forget it!
I went there on Labor Day. Perfect weather, no crowds, no traffic.
And I know a secret parking area near Ghirardelli that is free!
I always love Fisherman’s Wharf in Pier 39 I have not been back there in a while but I will always love it there
When group of us friends from the old days went for dinner. Over eight years ago.
I think it was 20 years ago when my cousin and her husband was visiting from Denmark. I used to go fairly often in the eighties and nineties, they had some nice shops and restaurants as well, especially some of the seafood restaurants on the Wharf. Actually, I think when my Swedish girlfriend and her boyfriend was visiting here in 2008 or 09, we had dinner on the Wharf, at one of the better known restaurants, perhaps “Alioto’s”, not 100 percent sure.
San Francisco? No thanks. Oakland? No thanks.
I value mine and my families lives, I don’t want to see junkies shooting in public, and I prefer not to see people going number 2 in public.
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Pier 39 was 1997 or 1998 I think….. I really hate big cities.
We had lunch at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. which had just recently opened there.
We had a nice table with a good view.
Food was good too…. I had the shrimp.
I’ve only gone to SF for Giant’s games since then…. and I rarely do that, oh… and I had surgery at Kaiser in SF last November.
We took our pup there last weekend. I was shocked at how much better it is now! The last time we were there, it was a ghost town. Dirty, lots of homeless, restaurants shuttered and overall depressing. Last weekend, not only did we have wonderful weather, the area was lively, very clean, lots of new shops and loads of visitors. I have always loved the wharf and am so happy to see it getting back to its former glory.