The Embarcadero
Waterfront Transportation Project Historic and Interpretive Signage Program
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This interpretive signage program was created in 1996 and covers 2.5 miles of the Embarcadero. The project includes 22, 13 foot high posts, vertical history stations and bronze inlays. these metal black-and-white-striped pylons are imprinted with photographs, stories, poetry in several languages and drawings commemorating the waterfront’s historical significance.
They are a collaboration between historian Nancy Leigh Olmstead and artist Michael Manwaring.
This was funded by a grant from Americans for the Arts, and California State’s Transportation Enhancement Activities
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4 responses to “Embarcadero Interpretive Signage and Walkway”
Wonderful way of teaching history and pleasing the eye at the same time!
Educational and fun too! I love the bronze inlays.
I like the poem on the pillar in shot 1, and I like jaws also, even if it is a strange pairing! 😀
These are fun to read in a beautiful part of the city.