{"id":132303,"date":"2016-12-14T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/the-ships-beneath-the-streets-of-san-francisco.html"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:03:32","slug":"the-ships-beneath-the-streets-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/the-ships-beneath-the-streets-of-san-francisco.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ships Beneath the Streets of San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a lot less city and a lot more wharf. But when dozens of ships were abandoned by gold-seeking sailors, they eventually rotted and sank, and as the city expanded out into the bay, they were buried beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>(Which gives me some fun ideas for a story, by the bye.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.foundsf.org\/index.php?title=Ships_under_Financial_District'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/g7nuVb4kLkWepPRu_CKNT1KLzPrjDiBu2Bm888A94ZYk-IzS1WSdqg5vFDdkdGkOcCwxnbmzGKCsk8--TduSPxA-Pzn3IxPlDa_F6gDLji0mBJiXrcgs=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.foundsf.org\/index.php?title=Ships_under_Financial_District'>Ships under Financial District &#8211; FoundSF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nUnfinished History. Downtwn1$yerba-buena-cove-1851.jpg. Photograph of Yerba Buena Cove in 1851. Map of ships buried under San Francisco Financial District. Map by Sam Manera, 2013, based on an earlier map by Ron Filion, 2000. Satty-p-32-asbury-quote-ships.jpg. Collage depicting ships piled into &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QK2AKo4M9Da'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a lot less city and a lot more wharf. But when dozens of ships were abandoned by gold-seeking sailors, they eventually rotted and sank, and as the city expanded out into the bay, they were buried beneath it. (Which gives me some fun ideas for a story, by the bye.) Ships &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/the-ships-beneath-the-streets-of-san-francisco.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ships Beneath the Streets of San Francisco&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51663,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/ghost-ships-of-the-future.html","url_meta":{"origin":132303,"position":0},"title":"Ghost Ships of the Future","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Jul-15 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Between GPS navigation and telepresence for more complicated tasks, this actually makes a lot of sense. 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