Reds Java House And The Bay Bridge At San Francisco Embarcadero DSC5761
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Reds Java House And The Bay Bridge At San Francisco Embarcadero DSC5761
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Reds Java House And The Bay Bridge At San Francisco Embarcadero DSC5761
Opened during the Depression, Franco's Lunch, as it was first known, was one of the dozens of small joints that pumped food, booze and coffee into the longshoremen, sailors and other laborers who made San Francisco's teeming port hum. As The Chronicle's Carl Nolte noted a couple of years ago, the breakfast special was a cheeseburger and a beer. That's still a lunch special, but much has changed on all sides of the weathered building. The booming ship traffic is long gone, as ancient as Admission Day celebrations for most Californians. The food shacks fell away like leaves, but a few managed to stay barnacled to the waterfront. It took tenacity, and people like redheaded brothers Mike and Tom McGarvey, tempered by the Depression, World War II and life at sea. The pair bought Franco's and renamed it Red's Java House.
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The Embarcadero (Spanish: Wharf), is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay, constructed atop an engineered seawall on reclaimed land. It derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar, meaning "to embark"; embarcadero itself means "the place to embark". The Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 2002.
The Embarcadero right-of-way begins at the intersection of Second and King Streets near AT&T Park, and travels north, passing under the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. The sidewalk along the waterfront between Harrison Street and Broadway was named "Herb Caen Way..." after the death of celebrated local columnist Herb Caen in 1997. The three dots, or ellipsis, deliberately are included in honor of columnist Herb Caen's Pulitzer Prize winning writing style. The Embarcadero continues north past the Ferry Building at Market Street, Fisherman's Wharf, and Pier 39, before ending at Pier 45. A section of The Embarcadero which r
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