This look up Yesler Way past the stern of the Wawona is also date 1964, and so adds some small uncertainty to the claim two captions above that the Wowona most likely was towed from the Pier 70 slip to the south side of Pier 54 that year. It may have come from here between Piers 50 and 51, or perhaps moved from here to Pier 70. There are other possibilities, of course. On the left is the post-Century 21 location of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. Since these piers, covering the former sprawl of Yesler’s Wharf (especially Pier 51 on the left), were eliminated for the construction of better vehicle approaches to Colman Dock, the Curiosity Shop has taken the northeast corner – at the sidewalk – of Ivar’s Pier 54, in the space where he opened his aquarium first in 1938. (I know this stuff by heart.)