By Wes Starratt, Senior Editor Published: February, 2004 A prized treasure of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park and one of the last of the wooden schooners that carried lumber to build San Francisco,including many of its original structures and historic Victorian homes. Following the great earthquake of 1906, it was one of the […]
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Whale of a Good time
By Lydia N. Dalloway Published: February, 2004 To See What They Can See They come to Sausalito from as far away as Europe and as near as Novato, San Francisco, Tiburon, or, well, Sausalito, to Gulf of the Farallones Expeditions to catch a boat leaving the dock at 7 a.m. What compels a person to […]
Hasta la Vista, Baby’ to Bay Area Gridlock
By Bobby Winston Published: February, 2004 With no help expected from Sacramento or Washington, D.C., it’s clear that the Bay Area is going to have to solve its mobility problems on its own. And we’ve got to start immediately. The first step comes March 2 when voters in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San […]
Mixed Business
By Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer Published: January, 2004 Very good looking chicken pot pies caught our eye through the window of a small store in The Rocks section of Sydney, Australia. Irresistible Force met Immovable Object: We went in the store. Surprise, surprise! Once inside, we found it to be part newsstand, part hardware, […]
High Tech Comes to the High Seas:
Published: January, 2004 Back in the days of Bay Area native son and writer Jack London (1876-1916), ferries unable to navigate the fog routinely collided with other vessels and the shore. It’s no wonder these collisions occurred when fog navigation meant nothing more than keeping a close watch and sounding a whistle. After World War […]
Sausalito, the 21st Region of Italy!
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: January, 2004 Poggio, a year in the making, has opened its doors filling the ground floor under Casa Madrona Hotel and Spa. The reinvention of the Village Fair of old Sausalito’s art colony is finally complete with coherent style and grace and a bit of Tuscan flare. The last of the […]
Port of Call—Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
By Drake Nanda Published: January, 2004 Some ports are just too good to pass up. Strategic location, access to cheap raw materials, cheap labor, convenient offshore quasi-territory from which to conduct quasi-legal activities—all reasons which have contributed to regular takeovers of important harbors by stronger nation states. True, the world used to be terribly brutish, […]
Little Sausalito Caffe
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: January, 2004 Il Piccolo opened on the Sausalito waterfront at 660 Bridgeway, Suite 3, under the Water Street Grill in the late fall of 2003. The Tuscan-style coffee house has sheltered outdoor tables so patrons can enjoy spectacular views of San Francisco and the ferry docks looking down Raccoon Straits. Piccolo […]
Pass RM-2 to Make Life Better for Me and You
Published: January, 2004 Bay Area voters who go to the polls on March 2 will be able to take direct action to expand the ferry system, promote vibrant waterfront communities, and embrace the region’s greatest natural resource. Regional Measure 2, the Regional Traffic Relief Plan, puts the very quality of Bay Area life on the […]
San Francisco’s Wine Country at Mission and 3rd Diablo Grande Wine Gallery
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: January, 2004 San Francisco’s first downtown wine tasting showcase may look like a small, quaint shop from the outside, but inside the front door, across stone tiles and past a plasma screen showing highlights of their four resort locations, is a very long wall of wine. The strong scent of the […]