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By Guy Span  Published: October, 2004 Not long ago, your curmudgeon got the chance to take the train to Portland, OR from the Oakland station in Jack London Square. The departure is 9:40 pm, which affords time to visit the lounge car and spend the next hour looking at Bay views as the train winds […]

Published: October, 2004 Ed Zelinsky was a very kind man and was considered a visionary and major moving force in the community of Tiburon. Any committee with Ed on it was going to make a difference in the small southern Marin town on the edge of the Bay. It was Ed who dressed up the […]

Published: October, 2004 It’s a shame you’ve lost me because I agree with so many of your positions regarding the importance of ferries. I find it intellectually lazy to take the easy shot and insinuate that every GG bridge driver is well off. I’m almost glad you haven’t removed me from your list yet, as […]

Published: October, 2004 Many travel by ferry to Tiburon to take a quick look around and have lunch while enjoying the Million Dollar views. One can’t but notice from the moment they get off the ferry there are many restaurants to choose from all within walking distance to the docks. The town buildings are so […]

Published: October, 2004 September 18, 2004, was the perfect overcast Saturday morning to stay in bed — but the grey weather didn’t deter more than 200 enthusiastic Berkeley and Albany residents from turning out to ride the specially chartered ferry from Berkeley to San Francisco. Berkeley has not had working passenger ferry service since 1989, […]

Published: October, 2004 Over the last 6 months I have setup a new art studio at Hunter’s Point Shipyard. The up coming Fall Open Studios has been the cause for beating a path along Third Street to the old Naval Base with great regularity. All the artists out on “The Point” are working diligently in […]

Published: October, 2004 There is a peculiar and disquieting sound on certain summer days that 101 produces just north of Whipple at about 8:30 AM when the traffic is stalled out. When things are well beyond slow and annoying and have established themselves at parking lot still. When things are so thick that everyone has […]

Published: October, 2004 Mayor Jerry Brown was on hand to congratulate the Port of Oakland on building Middle Harbor Shoreline Park. A Bay Area Blues Society saxophone player helped kick off the music part of the program which included the Unauthorized Rolling Stones, Big Bang Beat (Motown) and a Beatles Band – The Sun Kings. […]

By Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer  Published: September, 2004 Last month we had great fun gathering the answers to some simple questions about wine tasting: What rules you make for yourself, what you wear, and what do you learn? Part Two will bring some surprising answers! Joe Diamond, Trade Management Group, Inc. San Francisco RULES: […]