Published: June, 2004 Everyone in the industry is aware of the huge service meltdown suffered by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) after it acquired its San Francisco-based competitor, Southern Pacific (SP). This acquisition came shortly after UP bought the smaller Chicago Northwestern Railway and promptly suffered service disruptions. UP sincerely promised the regulators that there […]
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Your Delta, My Delta, Everyone’s Delta
Published: June, 2004 Jane Wolff is the author of Delta Primer: A Field Guide to the California Delta. After studying documentary filmmaking and getting a graduate degree in landscape architecture, she worked in a landscape architecture office in San Francisco. A traveling fellowship took her to the Netherlands to study the history of land reclamation. […]
Your Delta, My Delta, Everyone’s Delta
Jane Wolff is the author of Delta Primer: A Field Guide to the California Delta. After studying documentary filmmaking and getting a graduate degree in landscape architecture, she worked in a landscape architecture office in San Francisco. A traveling fellowship took her to the Netherlands to study the history of land reclamation. That experience led […]
Port Truckers: Sticking it to the Little Guy
Published: June, 2004 According to local truckers, the Port of Oakland trucker’s strike was brought on by the independent truckers getting squeezed by rising fuel prices and stable haulage rates. In many ways, the independent truckers and small companies are much like migrant workers. The large steamship lines lease their own terminal facilities and use […]
Get Up Close and Personal with Bay Lighthouse Treasures
Published: June, 2004 On Sundays, a rare and elegant tour of Bay Area lighthouses can be had by the brave of heart. This is a true maritime history tour that allows you to photograph these historic lighthouses from a water-side view on board the motor yacht, The Five Star Yacht. This US Coast Guard approved […]
Free Boat Show! May 1 & 2
Published: May, 2004 Sausalito is hosting San Francisco Bay Fest on May 1st and 2nd. McGrath Pacific’s ninth annual maritime festival featuring local tall ships Hawaiian Chieftain and Ka’iulani. There will be maritime seminars, free food, and sea music, plus the largest display of brokerage yachts on the West Coast. Held at historic Liberty Ship […]
Good Show – 9th Pacific Sail Expo signals time to move on.
By Cynthia Goss Published: May, 2004 Strong sales and strong attendance marked the 9th annual Pacific SAIL EXPO (PSE), the largest sailboat show on the West Coast that concluded Sunday, April 18 at Oakland’s Jack London Square. Over13,000 people attended the five-day event, which represents a 7% increase over last year’s attendance. This crowd also […]
BART and SamTrans – the 11% Solution
By Guy Span Published: May, 2004 We all know that BART and SamTrans have had a little tiff over the high cost of the airport extension. SamTrans agreed to pay the extra costs because it was never in BART, that is, on a tax contributing basis. And at the time it seemed a fair treatment. […]
West Marine Turns to Greene
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: May, 2004 Randy Repass, who started and remains a guiding and driving force in West Marine, placed an ad in the electronic sailing magazine Scuttlebutt and with the popular San Francisco sailing magazine Latitude 38. West Marine has become the largest boating supply retail chain in the country. It started with […]
Alta Mira – A New View
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: May, 2004 Is it possible to reinvent one’s self? It is for Tom Cole, the new General Manager of the Alta Mira Hotel of Sausalito. When Tom turned 40 he left a 20-year corporate management career by answering an ad to become the manager of a small boutique bed and breakfast […]