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Boston has already revitalized much of its wharf area. In St. Louis, preservationists have presented plans to save from urban removal several cast-ironfront buildings north of the Jefferson Memorial Gateway Arch. And in Seattle, a vociferous citizens' group called "Friends of the Market" is winning its fight to resuscitate the flavorful but financially fading Farmer's Market on Puget Sound as an area for art galleries, shops and boutiques...
...Chocolate Factory. No city has put more new life in the old waterfront than San Francisco. The move started in 1958, when a little-known import store called Cost Plus rented 4,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space next to Fisherman's Wharf to sell off its large inventory of rattan furniture. Shoppers were so charmed that the "sale" is still going on. Today, Cost Plus stocks 12,500 items (from Portuguese glass to South Pacific whale meat) from 47 countries, draws 25,000 customers weekly-and has spread out into six remodeled buildings, including a former glue factory...
Closed in Self-Defense. Newest element in San Francisco's revitalized waterfront is The Cannery, another lively block of shops and restaurants across the street from Fisherman's Wharf. "I had a sense of smell," explains Leonard V. Martin, 47, a wealthy Manchurian-born lawyer, who bought the abandoned Del Monte peach cannery in 1963. Martin's nose told him that what San Francisco needed was sidewalk cafes and more offbeat shops, and, with Architect Joseph Esherick, he set out to provide them...
...must be the only coal wharf in the world with a Grace Hartigan painting hanging inside the bunker house-along with canvases by Mark Rothko and Jack Youngerman and a Calder mobile. Used by its owner, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 59, as a private gallery during his vacations in Seal Harbor, Me., the old wharf has been thrown open to the public at $5 a head, proceeds to go to Maine's Republican Party. The tiny museum drew 900 visitors the first two days, including some indulgent socialites and many adamant Yankees who were pleased neither...
Aaron Copland, D.F.A., composer. From Bay Street to Bourbon Street, from Appalachians to Alamo, from Piedmont to Puget Sound, from Flatbush to Fisherman's Wharf, his music captures the grandeur and diversity of the nation...