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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkVolunteers learning the art of going aloft on the sailing ship Balclutha.
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A Monterey fishing boat painted white and green floating in the water and moored at Hyde Street Pier.
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This Monterey fishing boat is part of the park's small craft collection. Built in 1923, in San Francisco from oak and cedar, she is 23' long with a 9’ beam (width), and is powered by an 8 hp Hick’s engine. Fishermen made a living with this boat trawling for shrimp in SF Bay. A large sack-like trawling net was dragged in the water for about an hour and then hauled into the boat. The catch was kept in wicker baskets on deck. This boat is on display at the end of Hyde Street Pier.
Portrait of Otto Fischer
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The Aquatic Park Bathhouse building located at the foot of Polk Street in San Francisco, CA.  

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The Aquatic Park Bathhouse building, a Depression-era, Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, was completed in 1939. The art deco building includes tile mosaics of fish, marble floors that resemble a sea chart, and interior walls painted with murals depicting strange creatures of the deep.
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