By Mary E. ShacklettPublished: May, 2006 For the first time, laptop sales exceeded those of their desktop counterparts in 2005. Three major reasons were the portability that laptops offer, the growing availability of WIFI/wireless technology, and the new affordability of laptops for average consumers. At the same time, more of us are traveling more often—and […]
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April Waterfront Activities
Published: April, 2006 Apr 2 10AM – 12PM – Ocean Beach Cleanup, Surfrider Association (SF Chapter), Ocean Beach at Sloat Blvd, www.sfsurfrider.org Help keep our local beaches clean! Just show up at Ocean Beach at the end of Sloat Blvd and we’ll provide gloves, bags and instructions. Rain cancels this event. Apr 8 10AM – […]
Klaus Lange’s Distinct Palette
By Scott HargisPublished: April, 2006 Klaus Lange was having lunch recently at Z Café, on Auto Row in Oakland. Lange, who is a merchant seaman, a chef, and a photographer, has an exhibit of his photographs in the café through April. The images of the scraped and weathered sides of ships’ hulls are remarkable works […]
Mark your calendar!
Published: April, 2006 Thursday, May 18 is the San Francisco Bay Area’s 12th annual Bike to Work Day—a celebration of bicycling as a healthy, fun and viable form of transportation. Throughout the Bay Area, dozens of local events taking place during the months of April and May will get people excited about bicycling, and the […]
Ferries to the Rescue
1906… 1979… 1982… 1989… 1997… By Wes Starratt, PEPublished: April, 2006 The Great Earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the fire that convulsed the San Francisco afterward for four long days, created one of the largest civilian evacuations by water in history. The ferries never stopped running, carrying terrified residents, free-of-charge to the safety of […]
Subject: port of SF – parking meters
Published: April, 2006 From: Jaime Guerrero Here’s some interesting tidbit about Parking Meters under the jurisdiction of the Port (you talked about this in the Mar ’06 Bay Crossings issue). https://www.calstart.org/programs/cm/nn_detail.php?id=7984 Mr. Guerrero was kind to send some interesting excerpts from this article, which in-part, describe a venture between the Port of San Francisco and […]
Subject: Why WTA Will Undermine New Ferry Service To The North
Published: April, 2006 From: In Hiding Ah yes, so a Marin Supervisor, like all the rest from Marin, takes money from anti-transit interests, and then gets appointed to help promote mass transit?No, no, donors to the Kensey campaign oppose any good mass transit system, which is why Marin, allegedly a liberal county, has never funded […]
Two Fireboats Save the Waterfront
By Wes Starratt, PEPublished: April, 2006 San Francisco is a city surrounded on three sides by water and on two sides by major earthquake faults. The City has two fireboats, the Phoenix and the Guardian. They are docked at Firehouse No. 35 at Pier 22½, which is located directly under the Bay Bridge. Between earthquakes, […]
View from the Helm: A taste of the boating life at Boat Fest ’06
By Ed & Pam McGrathPublished: April, 2006 The boat business is really all about people. That’s our philosophy. We love boats, boating and boaters! We make our living finding boats for folks and finding folks for boats. In fact, twice a year, we gather our listings, power and sail priced from $30,000 to $2-million, and […]
Boating for Bragging Rights
By Bill PicturePublished: April, 2006 Aspot of bad luck kept Johnnie Owen from participating in last year’s Opening Day on the Bay, a judged parade of theme-decorated boats that helps kicks off the official boating season here in the Bay Area every April. The Walnut Grove resident, a member of the Encinal Yacht Club in Alameda […]