Coronado Ferry Landing
Former working ferry dock turned waterfront marketplace of shops, restaurants and bay views.
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This guide to Coronado Ferry Landing in San Diego starts in 1886, when forty men crammed onto a barge towed by a small steam yacht to clear a sandy peninsula for developers Elisha Babcock and H. L. Story. It follows the makeshift crossing into a real ferry business, anchored by a purpose-built steamer named The Coronado, and traces the decades of deckhands loading buggies, cars and sailors bound for the naval air station. You'll hear how wartime traffic forced the company to add a bigger boat just to keep up. Stand at the landing and you're on the same working dock those first laborers cleared by hand.
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