The Old Ship Saloon: Think neighborhood "Cheers"-like bar with a nautical twist, and you've described the Old Ship Saloon in San Francisco's Jackson Square neighborhood, along the edge of the ...

It’s a claim that may be disputed by the Saloon in North Beach, which opened in 1861. The Old Ship’s history goes back a bit further, depending on your definition of a bar: It is built atop ...

Old Ship Saloon, a San Francisco bar since 1851, has just been kept safe.Current owner Bill Duffy was getting ready to retire when an anonymous group of people decided they didn’t want that to ...

It continues as the Old Ship Saloon, ... Duffy has become a sort of historian of the cozy establishment he acquired in 1992, after working at the bar for more than 10 years.

The San Francisco Chronicle writes that the original Old Ship (which the owner simply cut a hole in the side of, added a plank, and invited miners into for a drink back in its day) probably ...

Founded in 1980 by John Gallagher, the Ship’s Mast was forced to close its doors over a rent dispute on September 14, 1993. As far as I can tell, its been boarded up ever since. At the time of ...