How America’s Most Famous Waterfront Lost Its Soul: Fisherman’s Wharf

How America’s Most Famous Waterfront Lost Its Soul: Fisherman’s Wharf If you stood at the foot of Taylor Street in San Francisco on a foggy morning around 1900, you wouldn't have seen a single fishing boat. The fog rolling through the Golden Gate was far too thick for that. But you would have heard them. Dozens of Italian fishermen, invisible in the gray, singing Verdi across the bay so nobody would collide. Stand on that same corner today and you'll hear barking sea lions, a carousel organ, and a guy selling clam chowder in a bread bowl. Nobody sings out there anymore. So where did the music go?