1853 SF – My God It’s Full of Ships
May 15, 2014
Continuing in this week’s pandoramamonium, here is the harbor San Francisco in 1853.
Click to lengthen. h/t to @SF_historian and @dnomadB.
“Hey. I’m gonna leave this ship right here kthxbai.”
The abandoned ships of course proves my theory that San Francisco has always been full of assholes.
Modern day analogy:
But man do I wish people in the 1850s would make my life a little easier today:
I’m looking at you, William Shew!
Anyway, those posts and rails are marking out water lots. The photos were taken in 1853 from Rincon Point, near what is now Harrison & Spear, over a bay that was pretty much filled in by 1859.
Field of view, via the 1853 Coast Survey map.
@SF_historian play-by-play:
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Burrito Justice 
You might be separatist rebel scum, but you do a great service for your Bernal community. :-)
I have an ancestor that jumped ship in early 49, still here.
Oh and that is a good job on the panorama.
I love this post. Especially the callout on William Shew… C. Watkins woulda never let you down! (and he didn’t a few years later with his triptychs)
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Thanks for sharing!