Underneath some of the most expensive real estate in the entire world sits hundreds of old wooden ships.
In 1994, construction workers in San Francisco's financial district began digging to build a new light-rail tunnel beneath the city when they hit something. It was a massive ship named"the Rome."
The ship was so large that the crew had to tunnel through the ship's hull to construct the tunnel. Now, the J, K, L, M, N, and T trains all ride through the hull of this ship every day.To understand that, we have to travel back in time nearlyWhen the gold rush began in 1848, thousands of people sailed into California, hoping to strike it rich. The ships that sailed there were often just enough to get the crew there.
A large portion of the ships that landed in San Francisco Bay were simply left to rot as the crews they brought got caught up in gold fever. At the height of the gold rush, there wereto one thousand ships moored in the harbor, clogging up traffic and making the waters almost un-navigable.The city needed land, and since most of it had already been built on, politicians devised a brilliant solution: start building on the water.
. So, ships were intentionally run aground and built into hotels and bars – they became part of the city.
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