The Embarcadero's Ferry Building

The Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay and a shopping center located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. On top of the building is a large clock tower, which can be seen all along Market Street. It was modelled after the Giralda clock tower in Seville, Spain. Download high resolution version (1232x1632, 413 KB)embarcadero I took the photo. ... Download high resolution version (1232x1632, 413 KB)embarcadero I took the photo. ... A terminal station, or terminus (plural: termini) is commonly used to describe a bus station or rail station (US: train station, UK: railway station). ... The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ... The Embarcaderos Ferry Building The Embarcadero is the name given the eastern waterfront of San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. ... City nickname: The City by the Bay Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Government County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 600. ... State nickname: The Golden State Official languages English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 4. ... The Clock Tower in the Medieval Citadel of Sighisoara. ... Market Street in downtown San Francisco. ... Seville (Spanish: Sevilla, see also different names) is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain, crossed by the river Guadalquivir (37° 22′ 38″ N, 5° 59′ 13″ W). ...

It opened in 1898, and it survived both the 1906 earthquake and the 1989 earthquake with amazingly little damage. Until the completion of the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge in the 1930s it was the second busiest transit terminal in the world, second only to London's Charing Cross Station. In 2004 it was remodeled and reopened as an upscale gourmet marketplace, office building, and ferry terminal, albeit with much limited service than what it used to experience in the 1930s. San Francisco's largest farmers market is held there on weekends and Friday nights. 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... San Francisco City Hall, April 20, 1906. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989 in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in California at 5:04 pm local time and measured 7. ... The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (37° 49′ 5″ N, 122° 20′ 48″ W; known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a toll bridge which spans the San Francisco Bay and links the Californian cities of Oakland and San Francisco in the United States. ... The Golden Gate Bridge (37° 49′ 12″ N, 122° 28′ 43″ W) is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A farmers market near the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. ...

Sources

• Ferry Building Marketplace

External links

• Aerial views from Microsoft Terraserver
• Street map from Mapquest