In the 1850s, Commercial Street led to a pier that extended some 2,000 feet out to about where Drumm Street is today. The Long Wharf, as it became known, accommodated auction houses, stores, and saloons on its deck, and trading ships along its edge. The Long Wharf and Commercial Street were the center of commerce, lined with many leading businesses including the West Coast's first mint. Carriages, drays (wheelbarrows), and wagons bustled up and down its length, and all manner of men from merchants to gamblers. Source: Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail