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The Old Ship Saloon

298 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA

The ship Arkansas ran aground near Alcatraz in 1849, and by 1851 a man named Joe Anthony was running a saloon inside her hull.

📅 1851–present🏛️ BarStill hereBuilt 1851
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The Old Ship Saloon, 298 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Old Ship Saloon, San Francisco (2015) · Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

The Arkansas reached San Francisco Bay on December 20, 1849, after a nearly six-month voyage, and ran aground on the rocks around Alcatraz. An entrepreneur named Joe Anthony opened a saloon inside her called the Old Ship Alehouse. Yerba Buena Cove was gradually filled in around it.

Warren P. Herman bought the hotel and bar in the early 1890s. Wikipedia's account says both he and later owner Henry Klee used the saloon to shanghai patrons. Klee rebuilt the building in 1907 in the form it has today, and current owner Bill Duffy acquired it in 1992.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The bar began inside a grounded Gold Rush ship.
The current building dates from Henry Klee's 1907 rebuild.
Wikipedia's account says later owners shanghaied patrons.

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Ship_Saloon