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"The Old Ship Saloon. Two ninety-eight Pacific Avenue. One of the oldest bars in San Francisco. And it's built on a ship. The Arkansas — a three-masted schooner built in New York in eighteen thirty-three — sailed around Cape Horn and arrived in San Francisco in December eighteen forty-nine. The crew abandoned it, same as everyone else, heading for the gold fields."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
Hear the full story at Old Ship Saloon
This is just one of 9 stops on the The Barbary Coast tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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